{"id":264093,"date":"2026-06-12T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:03:08","slug":"rent-guidelines-board-meeting-in-brooklyn-gets-rowdy-with-shouting-over-proposed-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264093\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent Guidelines Board meeting in Brooklyn gets rowdy with shouting over proposed increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) &#8212; There was an abundance of shouting Thursday night when the Rent Guidelines Board held a meeting in Downtown Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Speakers were given two minutes each with a countdown clock on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Among the speakers was Assemblyman Lester Chang who tried without success to bring together both sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We need landlords, we need tenants, because tenants support the landlord. Landlords also invest in building their houses. Now it&#8217;s not in reality you can&#8217;t have raises and also at the same time, there&#8217;s costs involved too. Just two days ago the water commission board has increased by 6% for water,&#8221; Chang said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tenants want to hold the mayor&#8217;s campaign promise for a rent freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Submit a tip or story idea to Eyewitness News<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover? Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below.    If attaching a video or photo, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/image-video-solicitation-and-rights-terms-of-use\/5101040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">terms of use apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) &#8212; There was an abundance of shouting Thursday night when the Rent Guidelines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[102358,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-264093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-102358","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264093","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=264093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}