Everyone deserves a safe, affordable place to live. I support rent stabilization to help keep families, seniors & workers in our community—without fear of being priced out. Let's put people before profits. #RentStabilization #HousingJustice #Hyattsville michaelangeloni.com/issues

NYC's rising costs strain rent-stabilized housing upkeep.

NYC's rising maintenance costs strain rent-stabilized housing sustainability.

NYC rent-stabilized units face a 5.7% rise in maintenance costs. #NYCHousing

Rising utility costs in NYC are straining rent-stabilized buildings. A 5% hike in utilities can push building operations to the edge, necessitating thoughtful rent adjustments by the RGB. #NYCHousing #HousingPolicy

Our weekly podcast is up 🎙️ The Rent Guidelines Board announces preliminary rent adjustment ranges, mayoral candidates are pressed on rent freeze rhetoric, and we recap Kenny Burgos’s panel discussion about homelessness and vouchers with HELP USA: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hou…

Does NYC have enough housing? NYC has a residential rental vacancy rate of 1.4 percent. A healthy rental market, where tenants have more power to negotiate, has a vacancy rate between 8%-10%:

How does rent-stabilization work in New York? Our Kenny Burgos explains:

NYAA adds two housing policy experts to growing team: open.substack.com/pub/housingny/…

How can they charge $7,000 for this apartment, speedy?

“He favors rent freezes that could restrict housing supply and make it harder for younger New Yorkers and new arrivals to afford housing.” nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi… via @NYTOpinion

.Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) joins the growing chorus sounding the alarm on rent stabilized housing 🚨 “It is antisocial to tell residents that rents will remain permanently affordable at low levels, without a realistic plan for how the building will continue to operate.” citylimits.org/opinion-nycs-a…

Listen to the experts.

RELEASE: It Is Illegal For Mayor To Push Premeditated Rent Freezes “Nowhere in the law does it say the Mayor has the power to force the 9-member, independent Rent Guidelines Board into premeditated rent freezes.” — Kenny Burgos open.substack.com/pub/housingny/…

Mayoral candidates campaigning on freezing the rent sounds great, but in practice it is not legal.

NYC already has social housing, it’s called an HDFC. Let’s see how these limited-equity cooperatives perform by looking at an example on St Nicholas Ave 🏢

“Freeze the rent” is a great slogan that garnered a lot of support in the NYC Mayoral primary. According to a recent poll over two-thirds of New Yorkers support the idea. When you begin to explain the trade offs, and who wins and loses, the support falls apart.

NEW POD w/ Kenny Burgos: The masses are starting to catch on to the fact that thousands of rent-stabilized buildings are under water. We also look the FARE Act’s impacts with help from openigloo + more from Jacobin and Vital City. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hou…

New rent adjustments take effect today:

NEW: reason released a new documentary on rent control and the potential impact of a rent freeze on New York City housing, featuring an interview with Kenny Burgos on the growing number of vacant apartments. youtu.be/7KbGulTc4TY