{"id":278771,"date":"2026-06-26T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278771\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:41:07","slug":"mamdanis-promised-rent-freeze-approved-in-new-york-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278771\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani\u2019s Promised Rent Freeze Approved in New York: What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cEverything since has been theater,\u201d Smyth added, citing hearings, public comments, and the data release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/rent-guidelines-board-member-resigns-hours-before-key-vote-on-nyc-rents\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cable news network News 12<\/a>, Mamdani echoed that the board acts independently and added that he \u201clook[s] forward to the outcome, the decision that they will make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What are landlords\u2019 issues with rent freezes?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_6VsJiZoDg\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">himself has pointed out<\/a> that rent freezes aren\u2019t new. During the tenure of former Mayor de Blasio, the RGB in 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RGB-Apartment-Chart.pdf\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted for<\/a> a freeze on one-year leases in these rent-stabilized apartments, the first since the RGB\u2019s establishment. These were followed by rent freezes in 2016, 2020, and the first half of 2021.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">While renters often rejoice at these rent freezes, landlords and property owners often lament them, citing increasing operation and management costs. The RGB\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-PIOC.pdf\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">own research<\/a> this year found that landlord costs rose by more than 5.3% in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverything since has been theater,\u201d Smyth added, citing hearings, public comments, and the data release.\u00a0 Speaking to cable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6721,9,24,55,54,5296,56,18208],"class_list":["post-278771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-housing-crisis","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news-desk","tag-ny","tag-overnight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278771","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=278771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}