Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze will warp NYC’s housing market — and hurt us all

Zohran Mamdani , city Democrats ’ mayoral nominee, is doubling down on his rent-freeze pledge.

The city's Rent Guidelines Board voted to permit rent increases for rent-stabilized apartments.

But we should be grateful to the RGB for not green-lighting a sequel, says Julian Zelizer .

He says rent freeze resulted in deferred maintenance and health hazards.

Howard Husock : New Yorkers can see the damage wrought by artificially low rents and deferred maintenance.

He says rent freeze will bring us housing equality, if you define that as equally poor conditions in both public and private rent-regulated apartments.

Husock is an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and author of " The Poor Side of Town ".