Editing Openai/696a591f-d750-8006-8907-5e4de0290571 (section)

=== What’s actually solid vs. what’s not ===

Solid / well-supported:
* NYC vacancy is extremely low (~1.4% in 2023). Rent Guidelines Board<ref>{{cite web|title=Rent Guidelines Board|url=https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-HSR.pdf|publisher=Rent Guidelines Board|access-date=2026-01-17}}</ref>
* Rent stabilization is a huge share of NYC rentals (~1M units; ~41%). Rent Guidelines Board<ref>{{cite web|title=Rent Guidelines Board|url=https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-HSR.pdf|publisher=Rent Guidelines Board|access-date=2026-01-17}}</ref>
* Some higher-income households benefit, but stabilized tenants are on average lower-income than market renters. Rent Guidelines Board<ref>{{cite web|title=Rent Guidelines Board|url=https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-IA-Study.pdf|publisher=Rent Guidelines Board|access-date=2026-01-17}}</ref>
* There are offline/vacant-not-available stabilized units, but the best evidence puts this in the tens of thousands total vacant-not-available for any reason, not “padlocked 50k because the math doesn’t pencil,” and “uninhabitable” is a few thousand in 2023. NYC Comptroller's Office<ref>{{cite web|title=NYC Comptroller's Office|url=https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/Accurately-Assessing-and-Effectively-Addressing-Vacancies-in-NYCs-Rent-Stabilized-Housing-Stock.pdf|publisher=NYC Comptroller's Office|access-date=2026-01-17}}</ref>

Weak/unsupported or wrong:
* “2.4 million rent-controlled apartments” (wrong by two orders of magnitude). New York City Government<ref>{{cite web|title=New York City Government|url=https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/about/2023-nychvs-selected-initial-findings.pdf|publisher=New York City Government|access-date=2026-01-17}}</ref>
* “Huge % are wealthy white boomer pieds-à-terre users” (contradicted on race; unsupported on pieds-à-terre scale). NYC Comptroller's Office<ref>{{cite web|title=NYC Comptroller's Office|url=https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/Accurately-Assessing-and-Effectively-Addressing-Vacancies-in-NYCs-Rent-Stabilized-Housing-Stock.pdf|publisher=NYC Comptroller's Office|access-date=2026-01-17}}</ref>
* “Government is purposely driving down values to buy buildings” (unsupported motive claim).
* Specific magnitudes like “leftover supply is 33% more expensive” (unsupported without a named study).

If you want, I can also rewrite the original list into a version that’s factually defensible (keeping the speaker’s viewpoint but replacing the shaky numbers/motive claims with what the NYC data actually supports).