Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched a taxpayer-funded initiative that critics bashed as a thinly veiled political lobbying campaign to push a rent freeze on the 2 million residents of the city’s rent-stabilized apartments. The avowed democratic socialist, surrounded by freeze-the-rent advocates, rolled out a program dubbed Organize NYC that would initially be tasked with spreading the word about upcoming hearings held by the independent Rent Guidelines Board, which will determine in June if rents will increase for rent-stabilized units.