Vacancy decontrol needs to be repealed. New York City’s affordable housing is vanishing every minute, and tenants are facing harassment and intimidation to leave their rent controlled apartments.

At about 5 pm on Tuesday, June 16th, the New York State Assembly passed A8902, a bill to enact public financing of elections.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has just introduced A8902, a bill that would create a voluntary system of public financing in New York.

On Sunday, Democratic Senator Hiram Monserrate, who has been at the center of the controversy in the State Senate for the past week, told the Daily News that he’s “Coming Home.”

Today’s Times Union has an editorial commending New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for calling on the legislature to pass public financing of elections.