• kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    i need to know what the stats and numbers look like for this. like ok, you did a rent freeze, maybe that saves a lot of poor people some money, but why specifically 1-2 year leases? why not freeze all rents? what are they prioritizing here, what are the numbers? what target are they trying to hit? is anything holding them back?

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      Rent stabilized units in NYC (~40% of rental stock) are only offered in 1-2 year leases because the Rent Guidelines Board sets the rate for the maximum rent increase by % on a yearly basis. Landlords are required to offer a lease renewal to tenants in rent stabilized units at the end of their 1 or 2 year lease period

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      I believe the point is that rent freezes normally apply to leases longer than 2 years but personally i’ve never signed a lease longer than a year so I would guess this affects more people than most rent freezes have before.

      I would also guess this doesn’t apply to people who signed leases with planned rent increases.

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        yeah ive only done 1-2 myself, frankly never even heard of anything longer than that but apparently new york has a lot of long leases if 1-2 is only half