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In New York City’s well-heeled 12th Congressional District, a housing activist named Pete Harrison is running in the Democratic primary to unseat incumbent Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. But that’s not the only campaign he’s waging. Harrison is currently engaged in a “rent strike†against his landlords, Blackstone Real Estate. This is a rather curious position to take, as we’ll get to momentarily, but he seems adamant about seeing that nobody has to pay their rent during the pandemic shutdown. He was recently offered the chance to pen an op-ed on the subject in the New York Daily News. ......So Mr. Harrison isn’t paying his rent to his evil landlords at Blackstone, despite apparently being quite financially stable with his job as a professor at Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, along with his work as a consultant on multiple political campaigns and for other progressive groups. It’s all a matter of principle, you see.Blackstone offered to let anyone who was considering fleeing the Big Apple to break their leases at no penalty. For those who were staying, they offered to allow tenants to shift their security deposits to cover part of their rent, or skip paying while they were out of work with the chance to make up the missed payments via installments spread out over time.Do you know how much of that Blackstone was actually obligated to do? None of it. ...
He'd be good friends with the "The Rent Is Too Damned High" guy.
