The Rent Guidelines Board in action (photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit)

Last week, theNew York City Rent Guidelines Board raised rents by 3% for one-year leases and roughly 4.5% for two-year leases for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Meanwhile, the...

Housing on the agenda (photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography Office)

New York City needs a lot more affordable housing, but we also must take care of our existing housing stock. Rent-stabilized buildings provide affordable housing for more than 1 million residents in the city, but those buildings are facing dire circumstances.

For many of these buildings, especially older buildings outside of the Manhattan core, they rely on a single source of income to operate: rent. Those rents are set by the Rent Guidelines

(photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit)

Here we go again. On Wednesday, June 21 the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) will vote on how much landlords can raise rents on people living in rent-stabilized apartments. In its second year of operation under a new pro-landlord mayor, all indications point to another round of unjust rent hikes on our already overburdened tenants — like last year’s 3.25% and 5% for one- and two-year leases.

The sham scenario has already been set up by a public complaint from Mayor

Pushing for tenant protections (photo: Jeff Reed/City Council)

Over the past month, hundreds of tenants have rallied at hearings across the city to send a message: the rents are too high. 

The New York City Rent Guidelines Board, appointed by the Mayor, hassole discretion over how rents will change for 2.4 million rent-stabilized New York City tenants. The Board members’ vote this week risks pushing countless families into overcrowded

Housing in the Bronx (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

Update: On Tuesday evening, the Rent Guidelines Board voted 5-4 to approve rent increases of 3.25% on one-year leases and 5% on two-year leases for the roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.

Many elected officials quickly condemned the decision, calling the increases too high, though they are lower than what the board's independent analysis showed building owners need to cover rising costs. Still, many

Michael McKee, the author (photo: William Alatriste/City Council)

The New York City Rent Guidelines Board is getting ready to hit tenants in rent-stabilized apartments with a big rent increase this Tuesday, the largest in nearly a decade. 

In its preliminary vote on May 5, the board voted 5-4 for a “range” of increases: between 2 and 4% for one-year lease renewals and 4 to 6% for two-year renewals. While the board is not locked into this, experience tells us that the final vote will be somewhere in these ranges, which will be harmful to the vast majority of tenants forced to pay the

Housing New York City (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

June 14, 2022 - Max Politics Podcast: What Building Owners Want from the Rent Guidelines Board and Policy-Makers

Jay Martin, executive director of CHIP, The Community Housing Improvement Program, which represents 4,000 owners and managers of over 400,000 rent-stabilized rental properties in New York City, joined the show to discuss what his members want to see from the NYC Rent Guidelines Board and policy-makers at the city and state levels.

Listen to the conversation and let us know what

(photo: Benjamin Kanter/Mayor's Office)

April 3, 2019 - Max & Murphy Podcast: The Debate Over Rent Regulations