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Luxury Renters Across New York City Are Organizing Against Landlords
13 minutes Posted Jun 3, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
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Inspired in part by Mayor Mamdani's Rental Ripoff Hearings, tenants are fed up by broken elevators, heat outages, and flooding in "luxury" buildings charging $4,000 to $6,000 a month. WNYC housing reporter David Brand joins us to talk about the new class of tenant associations fighting back.
Photo: David Brand
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