In addition to promising strict rent stabilization, he has been cutting red tape and executing on zoning changes from the previous administration to accelerate housing construction. Another legal round on rent stabilizationThis new lawsuit is the second one filed on rent stabilization since voters elected Mamdani last November. The first, filed in federal court, targets a 2019 statewide law that closed a loophole allowed landlords to remove units from stabilization if they made substantial renovations. “This rebuilt board was required to deliver a rent freeze,” Smyth wrote in the letter, according to the lawsuit. Together, the two cases show landlords contesting rent regulation on multiple fronts as Mamdani moves to make good on his affordability platform.