{"id":233979,"date":"2025-09-17T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233979\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:10:12","slug":"how-new-york-could-actually-freeze-its-rents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233979\/","title":{"rendered":"How New York Could Actually Freeze Its Rents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what\u2019s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Big Apple freeze
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The cost of living is spiraling in New York, especially for rent, forcing people to make extremely difficult decisions about how they spend their money. It\u2019s also a significant driver of homelessness in the city. By promising to freeze rents for every rent-stabilized tenant in NYC if elected, mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani offers hope to a million households. This explainer from THE CITY\u00a0details<\/a> what a possible Mayor Mamdani can and can\u2019t achieve.<\/p>\n

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Can New York\u2019s likely next mayor freeze rents on a million apartments as promised? I wasn\u2019t sure how that would work, but THE CITY has a great explainer. The short answer is: Not unilaterally, but there\u2019s a good chance that, by getting the right officials in place, he can make it happen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A giant leap
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It\u2019s not often that a story puts a human face on the hate that\u2019s presently polarizing the world, but this Positive News feature has done exactly that<\/a>. It tells the story of Nigel Bromage, a former neo-Nazi, far-right extremist who renounced his past and created a space for others to do so too through an organization he founded called Small Steps.<\/p>\n

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Geetanjali says:<\/p>\n

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Bromage says we have to listen to people who feel the extreme right offers them a voice and we have to fill that void. This story made me realize how big these voids actually are, and that perhaps we\u2019re all guilty of creating them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What else we\u2019re reading<\/b><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc20 Meet the Small Business Owners Electrifying Maine\u2019s Rural Coast<\/b><\/a> \u2014\u00a0shared by Executive Editor Will Doig from The Daily Yonder\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd8d<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>The Need For Success Stories in Conservation<\/b><\/a> \u2014\u00a0shared by Interim Editorial Director Tess Riley from Mongabay<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf33<\/b>\u00a0How a District in India Came Together to Plant 15 Million Trees<\/b><\/a> \u2014\u00a0shared by Audience Engagement Manager Vignesh Ramachandran from The New York Times<\/p>\n

In other news\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

For the past year, Reasons to be Cheerful\u2019s Our Electrifying World<\/a> series has been exploring how electrification is creating a more sustainable energy transition across the U.S. Now we want to hear from you. Whether it\u2019s an EV, e-bike, heat pump, or induction stove \u2014 tell us why you went electric and what impact it has had on your life by emailing us at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>. Show us any photos of your projects in action too! We\u2019ll use the responses in an upcoming story and on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what\u2019s getting our team talking. Let us know what you…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[852,5229,4788,7065,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,24738,18090,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-233979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-conservation","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-renters","19":"tag-trees","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115220042885171849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}