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Tenant advocates protest during a Rent Guidelines Board meeting at Hunter College.

Will the Next Mayor Freeze Rent? That Could Be Up to Eric Adams

May 1, 2025, 5:45 p.m.May 2, 2025, 5:58 a.m.

The Rent Guidelines Board is readying a hike as high as 4.75% — and could favor landlords well into the next mayor’s term despite many candidates’ call for no increase.

Sandy Nurse, City Council member representing District 37.

Tenants

Council Considers ‘Bold’ Slate of Tenant Protection Bills for NYC

Nov. 12, 2024, 5:25 p.m.Nov. 12, 2024, 5:25 p.m.

The aims of the bills, which include curbing illegal evictions and keeping tenants safe during heatwaves, were broadly ed by those testifying — but implementation challenges lingered.

Councilmember Chi Ossé speaks at a City Hall rally about investing $2 billion affordable housing.

Real Estate

Bill to End Forced Rental Broker Fees Goes to Council Vote With Near Veto-Proof

Nov. 12, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 12, 2024, 9:44 a.m.

Mayor Eric Adams says he’ll weigh what to do about the measure, while real estate industry launches campaign warning of unintended consequences.

A tenement building sat near the Ditmas Boulevard station in Astoria.

Rent

Landlords Tens of Thousands More Rent-Regulated Apartments Under Threat of Fines

Aug. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 19, 2024, 4:25 p.m.

A new state law, ed after THE CITY exposed units inexplicably missing in property owner reports, has spurred a surge in compliance in the face of costly penalties.

The entrance to a West Harlem Single Residence Occupancy building was boarded up after the Department of Housing Preservation and Development deemed it unsafe.

Real Estate

How NYC’s Unpaid Property Tax System Has Left Some Harlem Tenants in the Lurch

June 28, 2024, 5:00 a.m.June 29, 2024, 7:52 a.m.

Residents of a Sugar Hill rowhouse could lose their home when the derelict and foreclosed property goes to auction. It doesn’t have to be this way, advocates say.

City Council

Rental Broker Fee Bill Nears Veto-Proof as Council Hears Raucous Public Reactions

June 12, 2024, 3:56 p.m.June 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m.

The FARE Act has 33 ers in the City Council so far, but Speaker Adrienne Adams has yet to say if she’ll call a vote on the controversial measure to ban forced fees for apartment-hunters.