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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has delivered on his signature campaign promise after New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to approve the first-ever two-year rent freeze in the board's history for roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments across the city.
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New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 on Thursday to freeze rents for both one and two-year leases on roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments—a historic first in the board's history. This shields tenants from rent increases on the vast majority of the city's regulated housing stock for the next lease cycle. Mayor Zohran Mamdani had made rent stabilization a focus of his campaign messaging, and the freeze aligns with that priority.
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“New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to approve the first-ever two-year rent freeze in the board's history”
Multiple Tier 2-3 outlets (ABC7, CBS, NBC, The Hill, Gothamist) confirm the 7-1 vote and that this is the first rent freeze in the board's history for both one and two-year leases.
“The rent freeze applies to roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments across the city”
All five news sources confirm the figure of 1 million rent-regulated/rent-stabilized apartments affected by the freeze.
“This was Mayor Zohran Mamdani's signature campaign promise”
NBC New York and The Hill both confirm that Mamdani made rent freezing a central campaign pledge, repeating it 'with almost monomaniacal zeal in social media ads, speeches and rallies.'
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