Advocates hailed Zohran Mamdani’s victory as a win for rent-burdened tenants, while building owner groups decried his proposed rent freeze as a threat to the city’s stabilized housing stock.
“Tenants are the majority in New York. Zohran Mamdani understands that and he gave us something to vote for,” Cea Weaver, director of the New York State Tenant Bloc, said…
