Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise

Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be able to appoint six members to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him a majority of appointees to deliver his signature campaign proposal of a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments.

Alex Armlovich, a member of the board who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to a four-year term that runs through 2026, resigned Tuesday. He’s the third member to resign or signal intent to leave the board this month.

Armlovich said he did not resign for political reasons, but because he’d be taking on a new full-time job working on housing supply issues as a program officer at the philanthropy group Coefficient Giving…

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