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‘ABSOLUTE FARCE’: Board Stacked With Mamdani Allies Passes Large-Scale Rent Freeze in New York City

“The [New York City] Rent Guidelines Board has stopped being a fact-finding body. It has become a body that starts with an answer and vibe codes its way backward to justify it.”

That quote was from the resignation letter of Christina Smyth, a now-former member of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board who left the body hours before it signed off on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s extensive rent freeze in the city.

The proposal passed by a 7-1 vote Thursday and will allow a rent freeze on about one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.

This new policy delivers on one of Mamdani’s big campaign promises, but Smyth wrote that the decision was made on the “campaign trail” and not by compelling facts that it would be a successful policy for renters or landlords.

She further wrote that the board “stopped being a fact-finding body” and was reconstructed by Mamdani to deliver a rent freeze that he wanted no matter what.

The board chair responded to Smyth’s resignation by writing that it remained independent. However, Smyth insisted that the board’s own research revealed major warning signs for the rent freeze policy.

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