The Free Press(@TheFP):New York City’s rent freeze sounds compassionate—until you meet the landlords barely hanging on. @LLBiggers interviews a landlord whose grandfather fled Castro’s Cuba and spent a lifetime building a future in New York. Now, government housing policies threaten to destroy everything he built.

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2026.07.01 17:24

New York City’s rent freeze sounds compassionate—until you meet the landlords barely hanging on. @LLBiggers interviews a landlord whose grandfather fled Castro’s Cuba and spent a lifetime building a future in New York. Now, government housing policies threaten to destroy everything he built.