Although 2016 Republican party presidential candidate Donald Trump has apparently been against regulating the rents landlords may charge New York City tenants who live in residential apartment buildings that contain 6 units or more--in order to prevent overcharging and rent-gouging of tenants by New York City landlords--for many years, Trump, himself, apparently once, ironically, lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in Manhattan. As the 1992 book by former Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Deals and The Downfall, observed:
"...Though Donald [Trump] would spend years railing against New York's rent regulation system, his first apartment [a studio off Third Avenue at 196 East 75th Street] was rent stabilized, limiting rent increases...
"...He hired an Irish maid and quickly developed a reputation among the building's workers as a cheap tipper...
"Yet,, in January 1975, he was pictured...assailing the `ridiculous' rent stabilization system..."
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