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Rent and the Rent Guidelines Board

10 officials raised rent and the Rent Guidelines Board at 11 meetings. Pierina Ana Sanchez raised it most, at 3.

We count who raised it, not which side they took.

11meetings where an official raised it
10officials

Spot check: 47 of 57 lines were on topic. · Quotes from Oct 30, 2025 to Sep 9, 2026 · How we count

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Share of each body's meetings where an official raised rent and the Rent Guidelines Board

Share of each board's transcribed meetings where an identified official raised it. Shaded band: 90% range; overlapping bands are too close to call. Boards with fewer than six meetings left out.

  1. Committee on Housing and Buildings25% · 3 of 12 transcribed meetings
  2. New York City Council17% · 3 of 17 transcribed meetings
  3. Committee on Finance12% · 3 of 24 transcribed meetings
  4. Committee on Land Use5% · 1 of 17 transcribed meetings
All 5 bodies
  1. Committee on Oversight and Investigations— 1 of 5 meetings read; too few to give a share

The 11 meetings where an official raised rent and the Rent Guidelines Board

Newest first. School-board meetings open the district's own video.

  1. Sep 24, 2026New York City CouncilFrom the start →
  2. Sep 9, 2026Committee on Housing and BuildingsFrom the start →
  3. Jul 15, 2026Committee on FinancePlay at 44:33 →
  4. Jun 9, 2026Committee on FinanceFrom the start →
  5. May 14, 2026New York City CouncilFrom the start →
  6. Mar 25, 2026Committee on FinancePlay at 1:57:22 →
  7. Feb 9, 2026Committee on Housing and BuildingsFrom the start →
  8. Nov 20, 2025Committee on Housing and BuildingsPlay at 1:35:01 →
  9. Nov 19, 2025Committee on Land UseFrom the start →
  10. Nov 12, 2025New York City CouncilPlay at 27:34 →
All 11 meetings
  1. Oct 30, 2025Committee on Oversight and InvestigationsPlay at 19:45 →

10 officials, by meetings where they raised it

71% of officials’ talk time on it is identified, so counts are at least these.

Pierina Ana SanchezDistrict 14 · New York City Council3meetings

“Is there a number of units the administration sees as at risk of conversion to illegal hotel-type use as a result of the amended legislation? What analysis has the administration done on how allowing unhosted short-term rentals in the stock could increase rents and displacement for those tenants?”

Play at 1:35:01Nov 20, 2025
Linda LeeDistrict 23 · New York City Council2meetings

“Is there any additional targeted outreach to residents, um, you know, that are subject to significant rent increases?”

Play at 44:33Jul 15, 2026
Also raised it at one meeting
Chris BanksDistrict 42Gale A. BrewerDistrict 6Shahana K. HanifDistrict 39Crystal HudsonDistrict 35Shekar KrishnanDistrict 25Rafael Salamanca, Jr.CouncilJustin E. SanchezDistrict 17Phil WongDistrict 30

58 local news articles on rent and the Rent Guidelines Board in 12 months, and 11 meetings that took it up

Month by month · articles we found in local outlets (City & State, Gothamist, NY1, THE CITY and others), not all coverage

Local news articlesMeetings that took it up
11O
03N
30D
10J
41F
21M
30A
111M
161J
51J
20A
72S
30O

Meetings that raised rent and the Rent Guidelines Board drew 15.1 public speakers each

Public speakers per meeting, the whole meeting, not only this item · counts of people, never names · members of the public are never named, pictured or quoted

Meetings that raised rent and the Rent Guidelines Board15.1
11 meetings
All other meetings we counted7.9
421 meetings

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