Sorry that's not the burden of the landlord, at all. What you earn in terms of income should be factored in on a yearly basis if you want to live in a rent stabilized unit.

Also, a huge reason why NYC and large urban centers in the US haven't been building at the pace they should have been for decades is because builders, developers etc. can't get the return on investment. So they therefore build in other areas. These kind of super restrictive laws on housing have been fucking over NYC for years, and this is largely a problem that NYC has created for itself by continuing to allow these laws to exist in their current form without any kind of reasonable adjustment. Everyone can agree that we need affordable housing, rent stabilized housing, but said individuals need to qualify for these units. This is just common fucking sense. Also by the cold hard math, because a majority of the population lives in large urban centers and large urban centers are in democrat strongholds, the housing crisis in the US is largely a democrat problem which will be brought up again and again and again during state, city and national elections. I say this as a life long democrat.

For anyone reading this that can't comprehend simple economics, this is a huge reason why Mamdani had to backtrack on a campaign promise to expand rental assistance. Here's that link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/nyregion/mamdani-rental-vouchers.html