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City Councilwoman Margaret Chin (D-Manhattan) plans to introduce a resolution urging the state to bring a larger swath of the city's elderly into the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption, or SCRIE, program, which offers landlords a property tax abatement in exchange for freezing the rents of qualifying tenants.