END FORCED BROKERS FEES IN NYC

Send Mayor Adams a message. Tell him to sign the FARE Act today.

Forcing renters to pay for a broker that their landlord hired is completely unfair and makes housing even more unaffordable.

That’s why the City Council overwhelmingly passed Council Member Chi Ossé’s FARE (Fairness In Apartment Rental Expenses) Act, which requires the hiring party, whether landlord or tenant, to pay brokers fees. If this bill becomes law, tenants who choose not to hire a broker will never be forced to pay the fee again.

Now it is up to Mayor Eric Adams to sign the bill. We need your help to make sure Mayor Adams stands up for renters, even as the powerful real estate lobby does everything in their power to kill the bill.

Please use the form below to send a letter to Mayor Adams and voice your support for the FARE Act.

For more details on why we need the FARE Act, check out this op-ed from Bradley Tusk in the NY Daily News.

Thank you for fighting for a more affordable city.

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Eric Adams (Mayor), New York City, Democrat

Dear [recipient position will go here] [recipient name will go here],

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Forcing renters to pay brokers fees is completely unfair. It creates a massive upfront cost to 
moving, makes housing even more unaffordable, and forces renters to pay someone who they did not hire and have maybe never even met. That’s why the City Council passed the FARE Act (Int. 360). As a renter and your constituent, I urge you to sign the bill.

Under the current system, renters are required to pay thousands of dollars in brokers fees on top of their initial rent and security deposit. This makes moving nearly impossible for working-class New Yorkers. Think of the family who can’t move to a larger apartment and have another child. The city worker whose lease is up, is required to live in the five boroughs, but may leave over high housing costs. The artist who wants to follow their dream and finally move to the Big Apple. Brokers fees mean fewer apartments are available for rent, leading rents to soar even higher. In other words, forced broker fees are a direct impediment to the kind of vibrant city of opportunity that you have championed as a candidate and as Mayor.

The FARE Act still allows brokers to be paid. Like nearly every other city in America, landlords would pay the brokers they hire to show their own apartments. Renters can hire and pay their own broker to help them in the apartment search too.

Please stand up for renters in your city like me, as well as economic transparency and the principle of basic fairness, and help make New York City more affordable. Please sign the FARE Act without delay!

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