Mayoral candidate Andrew M. Cuomo is criticizing front-runner Zohran Mamdani for living in a one-bedroom rent-stabilized apartment for $2,300 a month, calling on him "to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family."

Mamdani lives in one of the city’s approximately 996,600 apartments — roughly 41% of the city’s 2.39 million rentals — that are stabilized, meaning that a board picked by the mayor periodically decides by what percent, if any, rent is allowed to be increased, and tenants have the right to renew their leases. Rent regulation in the city, which typically is not means-tested, has roots dating back over a century.

On Friday, Cuomo posted to X , describing Mamdani’s apartment incorrectly as "rent controlled," a different program that

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