Chapotraphouse

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