Tell Common Council: Pass Good Cause, No LLC Loopholes!

Good Cause gives tenants:

• Guaranteed lease renewals
  Rest easy knowing your lease renewal is guaranteed, even if you’re month-to-month
• Checks on large rent increases
  Tenants can force landlords to justify or reduce rent hikes above 10%, or CPI inflation plus 5%, whichever is lower.
• Limit of one rent increase per year
  Even for month-to-month tenants, price increases have a predictable schedule so you can plan ahead.
• Protection from unjustified evictions
  Landlords can’t evict without a “Good Cause”, like rent nonpayment or lease violations.

Full details at ithacaTU.org/goodcause.

How we pass Good Cause in Ithaca:

As of April 2024, cities in New York can opt into Good Cause Eviction protections, after years of organizing by tenants across the state. To opt in, Ithaca’s Common Council needs to vote — and ITU members, including Solidarity Slate legislators Kayla Matos and Phoebe Brown, are pushing to get it done.

All tenants deserve stable and safe homes. Good Cause would prevent arbitrary and discriminatory lease non-renewals that uproot tenants’ lives — no more worrying about getting evicted over asking for repairs, landlord harassment and/or bigotry, or building sale. Ithaca’s Common Council must pass Good Cause — and reject LLC Loopholes that would weaken the law and leave tenants in the dark about our protection status.