{"id":255045,"date":"2026-06-04T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:54:07","slug":"new-yorkers-to-weigh-in-on-rent-hike-freeze-proposal-at-public-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255045\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers to weigh in on rent hike freeze proposal at public hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">QUEENS &#8212; New York City residents will have the opportunity to weigh in on the possibility of a rent hike freeze &#8211; one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s biggest campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Eyewitness News reported last month that the Rent Guidelines Board <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/new-york-citys-rent-guidelines-board-hold-preliminary-vote-possible-freeze-increases\/19056143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">preliminarily voted for a range of hikes<\/a> for New York City&#8217;s rent-stabilized apartments with a possible rent freeze on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Members of the board submitted seven &#8220;yes&#8221; votes, one &#8220;no,&#8221; and one abstention, for a 0-2% increase for one-year leases, and 0-4% for two-year leases, a decision that didn&#8217;t seem to make either side happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The motion, the first preliminary vote on whether New Yorkers will see increases for rent-stabilized apartments or if rents will freeze, drew boos and groans from tenants and landlords following the vote as the raucous crowd drowned out the Rent Guidelines Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The hearing starts at 5 p.m. at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">A final decision on a rent freeze is expected on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS &#8212; New York City residents will have the opportunity to weigh in on the possibility of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[99310,98,100,99,2907,9,24,63,564,6205],"class_list":["post-255045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-99310","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-housing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rent","tag-rent-freeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255045","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=255045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}