And then there’s Mamdani
Mamdani’s plan is to have DCWP [Department of Consumer and Worker Protection] work with the City Council on new legislation that would stipulate landlords could require either a credit check — paid for by the landlord or broker — or proof that an applicant’s income meets the common 40-times-the-rent standard, but not both. …
The 68-page report laid out an ambitious slate of tenant-focused proposals, including legally recognizing tenant unions, directing HPD to investigate every heat complaint citywide and requiring landlords to disclose any AI-generated or digitally altered images and videos in rental listings so applicants are not misled by doctored apartments.
The report’s ideas came from “Rental Ripoff Hearings” where 2,300 of tenants across the five boroughs detailed housing conditions, fees and landlord practices they wanted City Hall to change.
The idea, as many people have said, is to reach the endpoint of city confiscation of these rental properties. Freeze rents on rent-stabilized apartment and make it almost impossible for landlords to get the money to pay for repairs and all the rest, and then as landlords pull out of the business entirely the city can take over. There seems to be little to no public acknowledgement by the present city administration that landlords are not money fountains, but that the rental business is subject to market forces and landlords have to make money in order to keep apartments in working order.
Oh, and Mamdani has some other plans of the more international variety:
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) says he is reviewing whether his administration could arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his anticipated visit to the city for the U.N. General Assembly this fall.
The mayor made these comments an interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Saturday episode of The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast.
“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani said. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court, and what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these past many years.”
No surprise there.
“the rental business is subject to market forces and landlords have to make money in order to keep apartments in working order.”
Governments are not subject to the need “to make money in order to keep apartments in working order”. NYC can borrow, raise taxes or as is too common, simply allow the apartments to deteriorate. Good luck getting anything out of a communist city hall.
How does the mayor of a city have authority to arrest a PM of another country?
Maybe Israel should consider bombing NYC.
Arrest Netanyahu, get a visit from the Mossad. Maybe not a bad outcome.
When the city takes over the apt, they will soon fall apart. And will be crammed with people.
Some village in Uganda has an opening for an idiot.
The ICC has no authority in the USA. Detaining Netanyahu would be an illegal kidnapping.
Mamdani is not an idiot. He is a very dangerous person. He knows what he wants and he knows what he’s doing and so far his he’s succeeded in his efforts.
Personally, I find him Satanic — a “Deceiver” in the Satanic mould — but that’s the Catholic in me talking.
When I look at him or hear him speak I detect a powerful odor of mendacity — of evil, pure and unadulterated. His smiling countenance makes me shudder. It is the rictus of evil.
New York City is going to Hell, literally. Or, rather, Mamdani is bringing Hell to New York City.
Rent control is an obvious taking even if the object wasn’t to take over properly.
Israel should tell the ICC to withdraw their illegal warrants or face the consequences. If they don’t, kill the criminals who issued them.
In a Uganda village he could play the idiot for a while, then they could introduce him to Mr. Crocodile.
@IO49: “…I detect a powerful odor of mendacity…”
and I could not help noticing how closely that matches “Mamdanicity”
Mendacity?
Really?
The destruction of NYC continues apace.
As does that of Seattle, etc., etc.
“When Socialists Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them”—https://www.zerohedge.com/political/when-socialists-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them