The rent freeze is very realistic. I don’t see a way it wouldn’t happen unless literally everything we know about him and his history is a lie. It’s a 9 person board that votes on rent raises, and the current balance is 5-4 in favor of raising rent, and one board member is directly appointed by the mayor at will. So that would immediately be 5-4 in favor of a rent freeze.
The rest would require some state/federal funding, but NY State politics at least have establishment dems who may normally oppose funding those programs in hot water, especially coming off a Mamdani win and huge performance in NYC districts.
I don’t understand why you would think that way unless you just don’t understand how the Rent Guidelines Board works. The rent has been frozen multiple times in the past 10 years.
The Rent Guidelines Board has members that serve terms and are supposed to be appointed to represent particular interests (tenants, landlords, though there’s really nothing stopping you from just appointing all tenant-friendly board members to nominally represent the landlords), all of them are appointed by the mayor, and 8/9 serve set terms in their positions. The last RGB member serves directly at the behest of the mayor with no term, ie they are directly appointed by the mayor and a new mayor will replace that board member when they are elected. The current voting balance of the board is 5 in favor of raising rent, 4 in favor of freezing rent. 1 of those 5 in favor of raising rent is the appointee with no term limit serving the will of the Eric Adams administration, who will be replaced when Zohran presumably takes office in January, changing the voting balance immediately to 5-4 in favor of freezing rent.
To most people who don’t understand how this system works, the rent freeze seems to be the most unrealistic policy, when in reality it is easily the most likely to occur. Not only that, it has the ability to extend beyond a Zohran mayoralty when the other board members are replaced with Zohran appointees
Genuinely ignoring reality atp to think he wouldn’t. Fucking Eric Adams, notoriously the most corrupt to landlord class and foreign interests politician in recent NYC history, appointed 4 members who vote to freeze the rent lol.
I hear everybody’s many critiques of Zohran and I have the same critiques, but at some point this critique has become hatejerking with no basis in political reality lmfao
The rent freeze is very realistic. I don’t see a way it wouldn’t happen unless literally everything we know about him and his history is a lie. It’s a 9 person board that votes on rent raises, and the current balance is 5-4 in favor of raising rent, and one board member is directly appointed by the mayor at will. So that would immediately be 5-4 in favor of a rent freeze.
The rest would require some state/federal funding, but NY State politics at least have establishment dems who may normally oppose funding those programs in hot water, especially coming off a Mamdani win and huge performance in NYC districts.
Complete nonsense, capital has too much control for this to be true.
I don’t understand why you would think that way unless you just don’t understand how the Rent Guidelines Board works. The rent has been frozen multiple times in the past 10 years.
The Rent Guidelines Board has members that serve terms and are supposed to be appointed to represent particular interests (tenants, landlords, though there’s really nothing stopping you from just appointing all tenant-friendly board members to nominally represent the landlords), all of them are appointed by the mayor, and 8/9 serve set terms in their positions. The last RGB member serves directly at the behest of the mayor with no term, ie they are directly appointed by the mayor and a new mayor will replace that board member when they are elected. The current voting balance of the board is 5 in favor of raising rent, 4 in favor of freezing rent. 1 of those 5 in favor of raising rent is the appointee with no term limit serving the will of the Eric Adams administration, who will be replaced when Zohran presumably takes office in January, changing the voting balance immediately to 5-4 in favor of freezing rent.
To most people who don’t understand how this system works, the rent freeze seems to be the most unrealistic policy, when in reality it is easily the most likely to occur. Not only that, it has the ability to extend beyond a Zohran mayoralty when the other board members are replaced with Zohran appointees
If you really think the Zionist shitlord is going to appoint a tenant friendly group I don’t know what to tell you.
Genuinely ignoring reality atp to think he wouldn’t. Fucking Eric Adams, notoriously the most corrupt to landlord class and foreign interests politician in recent NYC history, appointed 4 members who vote to freeze the rent lol.
I hear everybody’s many critiques of Zohran and I have the same critiques, but at some point this critique has become hatejerking with no basis in political reality lmfao
I promise I will apologize if I turn out to be wrong but I won’t be.
It’s just funny that it’s a sticking point because it’s like the only thing I can promise you will happen if he wins