2026-05-08T18:47:50.672Z / 路透社
作者：乔纳森·艾伦
2026年5月8日 UTC下午6:47 更新于1小时前
[1/5] 2026年5月7日，美国纽约市，莫雷姆·佩尔文在纽约市租金指导委员会就租金冻结进行临时投票的公开听证会上出席。路透社/希瑟·哈立法
- 内容摘要
- 租金指导委员会在6月最终投票前设定0%至2%的租金涨幅区间
- 新市长承诺的首次考验，涉及约100万套公寓
- 租户与房东均向委员会表示自身成本正在上涨
纽约，5月8日（路透社）—— 纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼最知名的竞选承诺在一场喧闹的大学礼堂中获得初步推进，市住房委员会在临时投票中同意考虑为约100万套受租金管制的公寓冻结租金。
这项延续数周的年度程序将于6月进行最终投票，纽约市租金指导委员会将确定租金管制公寓的房东可上调的租金幅度，这类公寓约占所有纽约住户的四分之一。委员会会综合考量租户薪资、房东楼宇收入、通胀、税收、住房供应变化以及其他诸多因素，进行严格的公开测算。
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在周四晚间的临时投票中，数百名租户挤满观众席，欢呼声与口号声几乎盖过了投票现场的声音，委员会敲定了下月最终投票前的涨幅区间：一年期租约续约的租金调整幅度为0%至2%，两年期租约续约为0%至4%。简言之，租金冻结仍有可能，但上调租金也并未被排除。
“冻结租金！”租户们高呼着，每当台上九名委员会成员提及“零”字时便鼓掌喝彩，而听到任何高于零的数字时则发出嘘声。他们还齐声喊道：“抗争！抗争！抗争！住房是人权！”
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委员会成员中有六名是由曼达尼任命的，他们仿佛无视眼前数百名情绪激动的纽约市民，继续推进投票流程。0%至2%的提议以7票赞成、1票反对、1票弃权获得通过。
曼达尼去年以民主社会主义者身份参选这座美国金融之都的市长，曾承诺冻结租金，并解决食品杂货、儿童保育及其他生活必需品价格飙升的问题。据房源机构StreetEasy的数据，该市新租公寓的中位租金为3950美元。
他的竞选成功受到 fellow Democrats 的效仿与研究，后者正寻求在州级和国家级重新夺回权力。就连共和党籍美国总统、亿万富翁房地产开发商唐纳德·特朗普也对其表示赞赏。
蟑螂、老鼠与霉菌
自今年1月曼达尼就职以来——他从皇后区一套月租约2300美元的一居室公寓搬到了曼哈顿拥有5间卧室的格雷西大厦——纽约市民一直在观察这位新市长竞选时的直白承诺能否兑现。
“我们有了一位新市长，他也曾住在租金管制公寓里，过去还曾与有住房问题的人共事过，”莫雷姆·佩尔文说道。周四投票前，她带着路透社记者参观了自己位于皇后区牙买加的租金管制一室公寓。“他了解纽约市的处境，知道我们有多艰难，我预计这次能听到好消息。”
49岁的佩尔文自2000年起就住在这套公寓里，如今每月向一家房地产管理公司支付略低于1300美元的租金，该公司在全市拥有超过2000套公寓。根据纽约市楼宇记录，她所在的187套公寓的楼宇内共有270项有效投诉，以及66项未结案的住房法规违规行为。佩尔文和邻居们不得不反复与房东就基本维修问题进行交涉。
“蟑螂、老鼠、破损的瓷砖，还有漏水、霉菌、臭虫，”佩尔文坐在一台自己购买并安装的二手冰箱旁说道，房东提供的那台冰箱早就不制冷了。“他们不想花钱解决问题。”
佩尔文是一家住房权益倡导组织的兼职租户顾问，她和一些邻居一同参加了周四的会议。
数百名租户手持英语、西班牙语、中文和孟加拉语标语牌挤满了场外人行道，他们敲鼓、吹哨，但安保人员不允许他们将乐器带入会场。
租户群体大致分为两派。一派是租户联盟，呼吁冻结租金，而租金管制法规实施50多年来，全市仅三次实行过租金冻结。另一派是佩尔文等人所在的租金正义联盟，呼吁实施前所未有的负向调整，即“租金下调”，以抵消曼达尼的前任埃里克·亚当斯四年任期内累计12%的租金涨幅。
物业业主称财务困境
房地产所有者也通过纽约房地产委员会及类似倡导团体提交了证词，他们辩称运营成本正在上涨，老旧楼宇的情况尤为严重。
尽管曼达尼任命了委员会多数成员，但除了表达个人意愿外，他无权干预委员会的决策。相反，他动用市政府资源，向纽约市民宣传他们的住房权利，并推动在6月25日最终投票前的剩余四场公开听证会上提高参与度。
周四晚间，曼达尼在一份声明中鼓励租户和房东“发声，直接讲述他们生活中的住房危机”。
纽约房地产委员会执行董事巴沙·格哈特在代表物业业主发言时表示，委员会的初步涨幅区间“忽视了数据中清晰显示的财务困境”，并且“冻结或近乎冻结租金是不合理的”。
由于租金下调至少在今年看来无望，佩尔文在投票结束后情绪低落。她和其他租户对涨幅区间包含零感到欣慰，但也担心过往的最终投票结果往往会落在区间中间。
“我们需要组织起来，需要反击，”她说。“希望我们能保持同样的劲头，直到6月的最终投票。”
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New York Mayor Mamdani’s ‘freeze the rent’ promise survives a noisy vote
2026-05-08T18:47:50.672Z / Reuters
By Jonathan Allen
May 8, 2026 6:47 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
[1/5] Moreom Perven attends a public hearing as New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board provisionally votes on a rent freeze, in New York City, U.S., May 7, 2026. REUTERS/Heather Khalifa
- Rent Guidelines Board sets range of zero to 2% rent increase before June vote
- Early test of new mayor’s promises, affecting around 1 million apartments
- Both tenants and landlords tell board their expenses are rising
NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s best-known campaign promise was tentatively advanced in a cacophonous college auditorium as a city housing board agreed in a provisional vote to consider freezing the rent for about a million regulated apartments.
In a weeks-long annual ritual culminating in a final vote in June, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board fixes how much landlords can raise the rent for tenants of rent-stabilized apartments, home to about a quarter of all New Yorkers. The board weighs tenants’ wages and landlords’ incomes from their buildings, inflation, taxes, shifts in housing supply and myriad other factors in closely scrutinized public calculations.
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In the provisional vote late on Thursday, barely audible over the chanting and cheering of hundreds of tenants filling the audience, the board set a range ahead of the next month’s final vote: rent adjustments of zero to 2% for 1-year lease renewals, and zero to 4% for 2-year renewals. In short, a rent freeze remains a possibility, but an increase has not been ruled out.
“Freeze the rent!” tenants shouted, applauding every mention of the word ‘zero’ from the nine board members who sat behind a table onstage, and booing every number they heard larger than that. “Fight! Fight! Fight! Housing is a human right!” they chanted.
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The board’s members, six appointed by Mamdani, pressed on as if they could not see or hear the hundreds of yelling New Yorkers arrayed before them, and the zero to 2% proposal was passed by a vote of 7-1, with one member abstaining.
Mamdani ran for mayor of America’s financial capital last year as a democratic socialist, promising to freeze rents and tackle soaring costs of groceries, childcare and other necessities in a city where the median rent for a newly leased apartment is $3,950, according to listings agency StreetEasy.
His success with voters has been admired and studied by fellow Democrats as they seek to regain power at the state and national level. It even impressed Republican U.S. President Donald Trump, a billionaire building developer.
ROACHES, MICE AND MOLD
Since Mamdani took office in January, moving from a roughly $2,300-per-month 1-bedroom Queens apartment to Manhattan’s 5-bedroom Gracie Mansion, New Yorkers have watched to see whether the simple declarative promises of the campaign trail will come to fruition.
“We have a new mayor, and he also lived in a stabilized apartment, he worked in the past with the people who had housing issues,” said Moreom Perven, before showing Reuters around her rent-stabilized studio apartment in Jamaica, Queens, ahead of Thursday’s vote. “He understands the situation of New York City, how we are suffering, and I expect this time, we’ll have the good news.”
Perven, 49, has lived in her apartment since 2000, now paying just under $1,300 a month in rent to a real-estate management company that owns more than 2,000 apartments in the city. Across her building’s 187 apartments, there are 270 active complaints, according to city building records, and 66 open housing code violations. Perven and her neighbors find themselves repeatedly waging battles with their landlord over basic maintenance.
“Roaches, mice, broken tiles, then water leakage, mold, bed bugs,” Perven recounted, sitting by a second refrigerator-freezer she bought and installed near the landlord-supplied one that hasn’t been cold in a long time. “They don’t want to invest money to fix the issue.”
Perven, a part-time tenants counselor for a housing-rights advocacy group, traveled with some of her neighbors to Thursday’s meeting.
Hundreds of tenants, waving signs in English, Spanish, Chinese and Bengali, filled the sidewalk outside, beating drums and blowing whistles that security would not let them take inside.
The tenants have divided broadly into two camps. There’s the Tenants Bloc, calling for a rent freeze, which has happened only three times in more than 50 years of rent-stabilization laws. And the Rent Justice Coalition, including Pervem and others, calling for an unheard-of negative adjustment, a “rent rollback,” to offset the cumulative 12% rent increase that came under Mamdani’s predecessor, Eric Adams, over his four-year term.
PROPERTY OWNERS CITE FINANCIAL DISTRESS
Property owners have also given testimony through the Real Estate Board of New York and similar advocacy groups, who argue that operating costs are rising, particularly in older buildings.
Mamdani, despite appointing a majority of board members, has no power to influence its decision beyond saying what he would like to see. Instead, he has used city resources to make sure New Yorkers know their rights and to goose turnout at the four remaining public hearings before the June 25 vote.
In a statement on Thursday night, Mamdani encouraged both tenants and landlords “to make their voices heard and speak directly to what this housing crisis looks like in their lives.”
Speaking for property owners, REBNY executive Basha Gerhards argued that the board’s preliminary ranges “ignore the clear financial distress shown in the data” and that “a freeze or near-freeze is unjustifiable.”
Perven left the vote downcast as a rent rollback seemed out of the question at least this year. She and other tenants were glad the range included zero, but worried that past final votes tended to fall somewhere in the middle.
“We need to organize. We need to fight back,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll see the same energy until June, for the final vote.”
Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Additional reporting by Aleksandra Michalska; Editing by Bill Berkrot
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