Last week NYC tenants and landlords pleaded their case to the Rent Guidelines Board in a five-hour meeting — with one side asking for a rent freeze and the other for an increase at a scale the city has not seen in years. Tenant leaders testified that high rents and utility costs are already forcing New Yorkers out of their homes, and that any rent increase will result in more evictions.

Join us when Altagracia Pierre-Outerbridge, founder and owner of New York city-based law firm Outerbridge Law P.C. who’s practice is focused on landlord-tenant litigation and transactional matters examine NY tenants, landlords, and the rent guidelines board on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.