In 2025, more than 20,000 rent-stabilized tenants signed a pledge to vote for a mayor who would freeze the rent. Then, more than one million New Yorkers did just that.
Tenants are facing more than just an affordability crisis. We have been hit with a crisis of ICE deportations, wartime inflation, and austerity cuts to our social safety net. So this year, we are demanding a rent freeze on one and two-year leases. ALL LEASES – NO INCREASES.
A rent freeze will save every rent stabilized tenant an average of $200 to $600 dollars a month: that’s basic needs like groceries, more time with our families, more to spend in our neighborhoods, and more assurance that we will be able to stay in our homes and in the city we love. Mayor Mamdani did his part appointing new Rent Guidelines Board members, now we have to do ours by organizing with our neighbors.
Get Involved
- Rally at the Rent Guidelines Board on May 7! RSVP here for details.
- Organize your building! Come to the next building captains training, RSVP here.
- Organize your neighbors! Join the mass outreach team for phonebanks every Thursday, RSVP here.
- Be a keyboard warrior! Join the Surround Sound Squad to spread the rent freeze message, RSVP here.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are we fighting for?
We are demanding a rent freeze for both one and two year leases. ALL LEASES – NO INCREASES.
A rent freeze will save every rent stabilized tenant an average of $200 to $600 dollars a month: that’s basic needs like groceries, more time with our families, more to spend in our neighborhoods, and more assurance that we will be able to stay in our homes and in the city we love.
Don’t landlords need to increase rents to maintain buildings?
Landlords are doing better than ever while 1 in 4 New Yorkers can’t afford the basics. The Rent Guidelines Board’s 2026 data shows that landlord incomes are up 6%, and in the last three years, Net Operating Incomes have risen by nearly 30%, while tenants continue to struggle to make rent. When landlords raise the rent, it goes straight to lining their pockets – not to fixing up our homes. Landlords saw rents increased like they wanted every year under Mayor Adams, but they still are not making repairs. More rent does not equal more repairs.
What about buildings that are in distress?
Tenants refuse to accept a rent hike just so landlords can make themselves rich and cover their bad bets. Our landlords have neglected our homes for years, even when they raised our rents. The 2019 rent laws solved the real crisis —of displacement and de-regulation loopholes, restoring rent-stabilization to work as intended: keeping tenants in their homes.
Tenants shouldn’t be punished for our landlords’ bad business decisions: Their mortgage debts are their problem.