{"id":264130,"date":"2026-06-12T03:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264130\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:54:51","slug":"rent-guidelines-board-meeting-in-brooklyn-gets-rowdy-with-shouting-over-proposed-increases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264130\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent Guidelines Board meeting in Brooklyn gets rowdy with shouting over proposed increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WABC;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WABC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"154\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/wabclogocolor.png\"\/><\/a>Fri, June 12, 2026 at 3:23 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>There was an abundance of shouting Thursday night when the Rent Guidelines Board held a meeting in Downtown Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers were given two minutes each with a countdown clock on display.<\/p>\n<p>Among the speakers was Assemblyman Lester Chang who tried without success to bring together both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#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>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>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 data-ylk=\"slk:terms of use apply.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/image-video-solicitation-and-rights-terms-of-use\/5101040\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">terms of use apply.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, June 12, 2026 at 3:23 AM UTC There was an abundance of shouting Thursday night when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,102365,3076,58028,9,24,63,15021],"class_list":["post-264130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-countdown-clock","tag-downtown-brooklyn","tag-lester-chang","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rent-guidelines-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264130","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=264130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}