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New York in Danger of Being Steamrolled by the Rent-Freeze Voting Bloc and Pandering Pols

By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, May 28 2025

Left-wing mayoral candidates and a newly launched "housing justice" group are promising a multiyear rent freeze on the city's nearly 1 million rent-regulated units. That's more than half the rental apartments in Gotham. It's a cynical political strategy: Pander to a block of single-issue voters almost too large to resist – and capture the mayoralty. Actually implementing that freeze would turn the entire city into a slum, with dilapidated, abandoned buildings and thousands of occupants forced to live in squalor because their apartments are no longer maintained. It could…

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