Nixon push for tenant safeguards

GUBERNATORIAL candidate Cynthia Nixon traveled to the Bronx on Thursday to propose a tenant-protection plan, which includes dumping a provision that allows landlords to hike rents by 20% each time a rent-regulated apartment is vacated.

Nixon, who is challenging Gov. Cuomo in the Democratic primary, also would get rid of the four-year limitation on a tenant’s ability to challenge a rent overcharge, revise how the cost of major capital improvements is passed on to tenants and expand rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six units or more.

“I will make protecting tenants — and not corporate landlords — my priority,” Nixon said as she attacked Cuomo’s housing record at a tenants’ rally for rent justice in Morrisania.

Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer defended his housing record, citing the passage of stronger rent-protection laws, the creation of a Tenant Protection Unit and the establishment of a $20 billion homelessness and affordablehousing program.