NEW YORK—Lynda Williams woke up Tuesday in her Brooklyn apartment of 34 years wondering about her future there, after the state’s decades-old rent regulations expired overnight.
Although officials say the laws ultimately will be renewed, “it’s scary for me,” said Williams, a retired nurse who has seen deregulated apartments across the street from hers rent for considerably more than she pays.
“It would be impossible for me to move somewhere else and pay the rent I’m paying now and be able to support myself,” she said.
