The group’s lawyers are using a rare tactic, called 7A—which the Mamdani administration has endorsed—to sideline negligent landlords and compel repairs. Transferring management is a drastic step, but tenants say…
Rent-stabilized tenants at the historic Riverside Houses in Brooklyn Heights say years of neglect by their landlord, Pinnacle Group, has led to crumbling ceilings, brown water, and repeated pest infestations.
The report provides a roadmap for how the Mamdani administration plans to strengthen enforcement, improve housing quality and make the market fairer, officials said.
The board took the unprecedented step of freezing rents on both one- and two-year lease renewals, fulfilling one of new Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s key campaign promises.
Tenants erupted into cheers when the motion passed inside a packed Museo del Barrio in East Harlem. “I kept saying, just like the Knicks won the championship, let’s make history…
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal is hiring a full time organizer to create a borough-wide tenant union, continuing a trend of city government supporting tenant groups.
Both inside and outside the Rent Guidelines Board’s public hearing Thursday, tenants and landlords shouted, booed, and jeered at each other in almost equal measure over future rents for regulated…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest budget proposal includes a boost for the initiative, which connects low-income renters facing eviction with legal representation in housing court. But advocates say it’s not enough…
Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement will be knocking on doors this spring, urging New Yorkers to testify at upcoming Rent Guideline Board hearings. The board will vote in June on…