It is getting much harder to get evicted in New York City
Tenants win. Potential tenants lose
There are few things that unite all New Yorkers, but one is an obsession with talking about the housing market. And so it is no surprise that it is dominating the city’s mayoral election on November 5th. The Democratic candidate (and frontrunner) Zohran Mamdani has made a slogan out of his a promise to “freeze the rent” on the 50% of flats that are rent-stabilised. The trailing candidates have scraped together their own housing plans. Yet for all the noise, one thing has been missed: New York City’s rental sector has already changed rather dramatically.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Stay in place”
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