Mamdani’s housing brass couldn’t name single time it rejected rent hikes for NYC’s most affordable apartments
Man-of-the-people Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agency couldn’t name a single time it has ever rejected a rent increase for 42,000 of the Big Apple’s most affordable apartments — as tenants now face hikes as high as 30%. While Hizzoner’s Rent Guidelines Board delivered a freeze for approximately one million rent-stabilized apartments, his Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) officials admitted that it approved a whopping 37 hikes last year for the city’s middle-class Mitchell-Lama housing program.
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Man-of-the-people Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agency couldn’t name a single time it has ever rejected a rent increase for 42,000 of the Big Apple’s most affordable apartments — as tenants now face hikes as high as 30%. While Hizzoner’s Rent Guidelines Board delivered a freeze for approximately one million rent-stabilized apartments, his Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) officials admitted that it approved a whopping 37 hikes last year for the city’s middle-class Mitchell-Lama housing program. The agency also greenlit another rent increase this year. “I don’t have that knowledge off the top of my head,” HPD Deputy Commissioner Adam Phillips said when pressed on whether the agency had ever flat-out rejected a hike.
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- Man-of-the-people Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agency couldn’t name a single time it has ever rejected a rent increase for 42,000 of the Big Apple’s most affordable apartments — as tenants now face hikes as high as 30%. While Hizzoner’s Rent Guidelines Board delivered a freeze for approximately one million rent-stabilized apartments, his Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) officials admitted that it approved a whopping 37 hikes last year for the city’s middle-class Mitchell-Lama housing program.
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