'Rent is Too Damn High' candidate facing eviction from rent-controlled apartment

[The Straight Story]

'Rent is Too Damn High' candidate facing eviction from rent-controlled apartment

The man who ran for governor because the "Rent is Too Damn High" claims he's being kicked out of his Manhattan apartment -- because the rent is too damn low!

Jimmy McMillan says he pays $872.96 for a rent-controlled ground-floor apartment on St. Marks Place in the East Village -- which he's had since the late-1970s, when the rent was around $275.

But the man who founded the tenants-rights party says his landlords are giving him the boot so they can pull in way more dough.

"I've been here since 1977, and they want more money!" McMillan says. "It's about 'My Rent is Too Damn Low.' "


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/damn_is_bursting_zGNw7pG5TLpxGGPJgMwHmO#ixzz1UA2sO8t7

[tammywammy]

1. So is he living there or the apartment in Brooklyn?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/nyregion/20rent.html

"Mr. McMillan said that he moved into his apartment, a one-bedroom on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in the early 1980s but soon fell behind on rent when he left his job in the Postal Service on disability. The landlady, Mr. McMillan said, admired his Vietnam War service and forgave the back rent and, eventually, the future rent, too. In exchange, he did maintenance work, and after she died in 2003, her heirs continued the tradition."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/damn_is_bursting_zGNw7pG5TLpxGGPJgMwHmO#ixzz1UColiW42

Jimmy McMillan says he pays $872.96 for a rent-controlled ground-floor apartment on St. Marks Place in the East Village -- which he's had since the late-1970s, when the rent was around $275.


Ahh, it appears that his son is living in the East Village apartment.

[AnnieBW]

2. That will teach him to complain

He drew attention to himself. Bad move, dude.