A chart showing the percentage increase, or freeze, on one-year leases voted on by New York City Rent Guidelines Board from 1968 to 2022
• The RGB voted to enact a 10% increase covering two years in 1968
• They voted to freeze rents three times — in 2015, 2016 and 2020
• And they froze rents for the first six months of the lease before instituting a 1.5% increase for the second six months in 2021