[CNN] Rent board fulfills Mamdani’s vow to freeze the rent on 1 million NYC

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📌 标题:Rent board fulfills Mamdani’s vow to freeze the rent on 1 million NYC apartments

📅 发布时间:Updated Jun 25, 2026, 8:39 PM ET

📝 英文原文:
AP—New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani barreled into City Hall vowing to tackle the city’s notoriously high cost of living, partly by fulfilling a campaign promise repeated with almost monomaniacal zeal in social media ads, speeches and rallies: “As your next mayor, I will freeze your rent.”On Thursday evening, a board he controls made good on that signature pledge.The city’s Rent Guidelines Board, an independent panel of mayoral appointees, approved a rent freeze covering both one-year and two-year leases for people living in about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments.The vote, while expected, is a big win for Mamdani, allowing him to beat back skepticism over his ability to deliver on his affordability agenda. And it came just two days after he made a splash as a budding progressive kingmaker when three congressional candidates he endorsed won their races in stunning fashion, unseating two Democratic incumbents and bucking the party establishment.In a statement, Mamdani, a Democrat, called the decision “a historic victory for New York City tenants.”“This is the relief that working people across our city deserve,” he said.Real estate groups say a rent freeze would pinch landlords, leaving them struggling to afford routine maintenance or other repairs as they face rising costs and inflation. Critics of rent regulation say the policy leads to higher rental costs for non-stabilized units.“This will only result in more dilapidated housing and potentially more foreclosures and bankruptcies, which the city is wholly unprepared for,” said Kenny Burgos, CEO of the New York Apartment Association, a landlord lobbying group.A legal challenge is expected over the board’s vote. One of its members, an appointee representing landlords, resigned in protest as she claimed the board’s independence had been compromised.“The Rent Guidelines Board has stopped being a fact-finding body,” former board member Christina Smyth wrote in her resignation letter, which she provided to The Associ

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🇨🇳 中文翻译:
美联社——纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 冲进市政厅,誓言要解决该市臭名昭著的高生活成本问题,部分方法是兑现在社交媒体广告、演讲和集会上以近乎偏执的热情重复的竞选承诺:“作为你们的下一任市长,我将冻结你们的租金。”周四晚上,他控制的一个委员会兑现了这一签名承诺。该市的租金指导委员会是一个由市长任命的独立小组,批准了租金冻结,涵盖一年期和两年期



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