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Mamdani’s on a quest to kill NYC’s free housing market — the rent freeze is step one

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27.06.2026

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Mamdani’s on a quest to kill NYC’s free housing market — the rent freeze is step one

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After Mayor Mamdani promised to freeze rents for two years in nearly a million rent-stabilized apartments, the lefties on the Rent Guidelines Board saluted and delivered for him.

Here is some of how he gloated afterward:

“This is a historic victory for New York City tenants. After reviewing the data and hearing from New Yorkers across the city, the independent RGB has delivered a freeze on one-year leases, and the first-ever freeze on two- year leases in our city’s history.........

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