{"id":268269,"date":"2026-06-16T07:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268269\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:33:01","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-tenants-rally-for-rent-freeze-ahead-of-rent-guidelines-board-hearing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268269\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Tenants Rally For Rent Freeze Ahead Of Rent Guidelines Board Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tenant advocates gathered outside Hostos Community College on Monday ahead of a Rent Guidelines Board public hearing \u2014 demanding a rent freeze for the city\u2019s roughly 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Organizers with the New York State Tenant Bloc, CASA and other housing advocacy groups say many New Yorkers are already struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living and cannot afford another rent increase.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The rally comes after the Rent Guidelines Board\u2019s preliminary vote last month included a 0% increase option for both one- and two-year leases \u2014 marking the first time the board has considered freezing rents on two-year leases.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Landlord groups, meanwhile, argue building owners are also facing rising costs, including insurance, taxes, maintenance, and repairs. Some property owners say rent increases are necessary to keep buildings operating and maintained.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Rent Guidelines Board is expected to hold several more public hearings before a final vote later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenant advocates gathered outside Hostos Community College on Monday ahead of a Rent Guidelines Board public hearing \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-268269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268269","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=268269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}