{"id":159797,"date":"2026-03-10T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159797\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:45:19","slug":"queens-tenants-demand-rent-rollbacks-at-hearing-hosted-by-mayor-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159797\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens tenants demand rent rollbacks at hearing hosted by Mayor Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 New York City tenants attended the second installment of the Rental Ripoff hearings, hosted by the Office of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in Queens on March 5, to give testimony about injustices they\u2019ve faced with landlords and other governing entities in providing affordable, safe housing to residents.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing took place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academyofamericanstudies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Academy of American Studies<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/long-island-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Long Island City<\/a>, where frustrated tenants had the opportunity to share testimony and speak with government authorities about issues and concerns they are currently experiencing as a result of poor landlordship.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/03\/queens-tenants-rent-ripoff-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\u2018Housing is a right, so we must fight\u2019: Queens tenants demand rent rollbacks at hearing hosted by Mayor Mamdani &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Over 200 New York City tenants attended the second installment of the Rental Ripoff hearings, hosted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[310,2979,2907,9090,22925,2610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,5434,564,65855,7978],"class_list":["post-159797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-hearing","tag-housing","tag-long-island-city","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-real-estate-newsletter","tag-rent","tag-rent-rollbacks","tag-tenants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}