![]() ![]() “The Rent Guidelines Board meetings every year are always a place of a lot of activity and actions and pushback,” said Brooklyn Council Member Sandy Nurse, who participated in the protest with several Progressive Caucus colleagues. “For most people I know, this basically wipes out any raise that they got, any cost-of-living increase they got at their job.” Everybody I know is living in precarity,” said Crown Heights tenant Sarah Lazur. I was hoping that some student debt was going to be canceled. “I’m still trying to dig myself out from debt I got during the pandemic. The last time rent-stabilized tenants consistently faced increases in this range was in the mid-aughts up through 2013, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. ![]() The nine-member board, made up of mayoral appointees, voted 5-4 in favor of rent hikes between 2 to 5 percent for a one-year lease and 4 to 7 percent for two-year leases. Tenants across nearly 1 million stabilized apartments could be facing rent increases on par with or greater than last year, following a raucous meeting Tuesday night held by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board. Tenants members of the Rent Guidelines Board, flanked by protesting council members and activists, at a meeting at The Great Hall at Cooper Union Tuesday night. ![]()
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