It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm for Brian Laird today. A little sound from last night's Rent Guidelines Board meeting.

Freeze the Rent has become a repeated refrain this political season.

It was one of the key planks in Democrat Zoran Mamdani's mayoral platform.

Now he was only talking about the roughly 2 million tenants in rent-stabilized apartments.

And last night, the Rent Guidelines Board met to adopt rent rates for one- and two-year leases

and there will not be a rent-freeze this year.

Rents are going up by more than the minimum amount, but less than the max they could have

gone up.

Rents will rise 3% on new one-year leases and four and a half

percent on new two-year leases. That's all starting in October, just before the general election,

I will note. WNYC and Gothamist housing reporter David Brand was at that meeting last night and

joins me now. Hey, David. Hey, Bridget. And listeners, do you live in a rent

stabilized apartment or are you a landlord for buildings with rent stabilized tenants? We want to

hear from you. How are you feeling about the increases adopted last night? How much will you

feel it in your pocketbook? If you're a tenant, is there any relief that, there's there any relief that the

increase wasn't higher? And if you're a landlord, is this increase enough for you to maintain your

building? And since we're talking about the politics of it all, how big of an issue is this for you

in the New York City mayor's race? Call us at 212-433 W-N-YC.

That's 212-433-9692.

You can call or text at that number.

We heard those chance, David,

but set this stage for last night's meeting.

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