Mayor Sends Volunteers to Inform Tenants About Rent Hearings; Volunteers Definitely There to Inform and Not to Organize, Mayor Stresses Several Times
Mamdani Rent Freeze Outreach Program Described as Educational; Landlords Describe It as Something Else Entirely CITY HALL, NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that his administration will organize volunteer outreach to tenants in rent-stabilized buildings, encouraging more New Yorkers to testify at upcoming Rent Guidelines Board hearings — hearings that will determine whether rents on approximately one million stabilized apartments are frozen, which is what the mayor campaigned on, and which the Rent Guidelines Board is theoretically independent from the mayor’s office, a point the mayor addressed by promising the outreach would be “informational and not political,” a distinction that landlord groups received with the skepticism of people who have read the mayor’s platform. From Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat . The Rent Guidelines Board is an independent nine-member body that sets annual rent increases for stabilized apartments. The mayor appoints the board memb...