Source: New York Post
Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched a taxpayer-funded initiative that critics bashed as a thinly veiled political lobbying campaign to push a rent freeze on the city’s 2 million rent-controlled apartments. The avowed democratic socialist, surrounded by freeze-the-rent advocates, rolled out a program dubbed Organize NYC that would initially be tasked with spreading the word about upcoming hearings held by the independent Rent Guidelines Board, which will determine in June if rents will increase for rent-stabilized units. While Mamdani claimed the long-term initiative run by his Office of Mass Engagement won’t push his political agenda and will seek input from tenants and landlords alike, real estate advocates argued he was deploying a “pressure campaign” to deliver on his well-known freeze-the-rent campaign promise.
