Brecca Stoll on X - "NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits. “For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.""
New York Post on X - "DSA NY House hopeful unveils radical housing plan to 'take buildings away' from so-called bad landlords"
Claire Valdez on X - "Yes, that's correct."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "From your lips to Clarence Thomas’s ears. Every now and then you should to take a moment to thank God for how stupid the Left is. Zero impulse control or forethought. With any luck in a couple years when SCOTUS makes it illegal libs will be crying ‘We didn’t ackshually mean rent control is a taking!’ in the same way they cried, ‘We didn’t ackshually mean defund the police!’"
Shipwreckedcrew on X - "This has always been the strategy -- prior mayors simply refused to carry out the last step. Rent control means insufficient revenue for landlords to properly maintain the building. Decline in condition of the building due to deferred maintenance leads to city pursuit of condemnation -- even though it is the city policy that starves the landlord of the needed funds. Condemnation is followed by city-financed renovation, and lease to NGO to operate as city-owned housing. All without a "takings" under eminent domain."
Rothmus 🏴 on X - "The most interesting aspect of Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan is that it doesn’t simply transfer seized properties to the city as that could later be reversed by a future mayor. Instead, it funnels them directly to NGOs and “community stewards” that are reliably aligned with leftist priorities and unlikely to ever relinquish control. Even tenants who gain temporary possession will soon discover they lack the expertise and resources to manage buildings themselves, forcing them to rely on these permanent third-party intermediaries. This expropriation strategy didn’t start with Mamdani. Democrats laid the groundwork years ago but lacked the nerve to follow through fully. Mamdani is openly commie and has no such hesitation.
The play:
>impose strict rent controls that make it financially unviable for owners to properly maintain or repair their properties
>blame the landlords for the resulting deterioration
>label the buildings “chronically neglected” based on your own standards
>seize the properties and transfer them to your political allies, the nonprofits, community land trusts, or tenant groups
Because the criteria are deliberately vague and subjective, virtually any owner can be targeted. This gives authorities the power to confiscate private property at will. Mamdani’s campaign made this direction explicit. It’s about pursuing “equity” by redistributing housing stock, often framed as taking from wealthier (white) neighborhoods to benefit others. In reality, many of these properties are expected to end up under the control of nonprofits serving the city’s large foreign-born population, all within a framework of permanent “progressive” dominance.
TLDR: it’s leftist plunder and pillaging, again."
Clearly, if you call him a communist, you're clueless and ignorant
WestHarlm on X - "Mamdani's political party announced their intensions to the world years ago. Their goal is to bankrupt NYC landlords via ridiculous rent control laws and then take the owner's properties away and give them to people who didn't earn them. This is happening in America. The Dem party continues to allow Socialists to run as Dems. Why?"
End Wokeness on X - "Mamdani says he'll seize a building from the landlord because it has a beehive"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene. First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners. Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith. The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood'). But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications. The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario. As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power. That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax. Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster. Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be. No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate. Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense."
Tom Elliott on X - "In 1918, the Bolsheviks instituted the nationalization of urban housing in Moscow & Petrograd. Large apartment buildings were expropriated & converted into kommunalki (communal apartments). Owners were dispossessed, usually being assigned a small room in the building they formerly owned. Families who'd owned apartments with multiple bedrooms were accused of "bourgeois excess"; their "underuse" of property was likened to theft from the "proletariat." Their homes were seized & parceled out to poorer working-class families. Just in case you're curious as to where this could be heading."
A Gene Robinson on X - "So let me get this straight… During COVID, government imposed eviction moratoriums across cities and states. A lot of Americans still do not understand what that actually meant. It did NOT mean government paid everybody’s rent. It meant landlords were often legally blocked from removing tenants for nonpayment. But the landlord’s obligations NEVER stopped. Mortgage? Still due. Property taxes? Still due. Insurance? Still due. Water bills? Still due. Heating systems? Still due. Repairs? Still due. Code violations? Still due. So imagine a small Black landlord in a struggling neighborhood with a duplex or triple they worked decades to buy. Tenants stop paying for months… sometimes years. Meanwhile inflation explodes. Material costs explode. Insurance spikes. Taxes rise. Savings disappear. That owner drains retirement accounts and maxes out credit cards just trying to survive while politicians stand behind podiums pretending compassion costs nothing. Then comes the final insult. Buildings deteriorate because cash flow collapsed… and now politicians like Zohran Mamdani point at the deterioration THEY helped create and say: “Negligent landlord.” “Take the building.” “Transfer ownership.” So government creates the financial hemorrhage… then blames the wounded for bleeding. The wealthy corporate developers survive. Massive investment firms survive. Politically connected nonprofits survive. But the working class landlord? The old Black couple trying to leave property to their children? The immigrant family that scraped together enough for 6 units? The retired tradesman depending on rental income? CRUSHED. And Americans better wake up to what this really means. Because once government decides “neglect” justifies control… the definition of neglect expands every year. Today it is deferred maintenance. Tomorrow it becomes “underutilized property.” Then “community necessity.” Then “housing equity.” That road always ends with less private ownership and more centralized control. You do not save neighborhoods by destroying the people who stayed invested in them. You do not stabilize cities by terrifying small property owners. And you absolutely do not rebuild Black wealth by making ownership itself politically dangerous. Watch carefully. The people who suffered under the moratoriums are now being portrayed as villains for surviving the policies imposed on them. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove"
Meme - "The problem with Communists is their naive stupidity. Any thinking person knows that it is IMPOSSIBLE to take a government entity today, and fund it TODAY so it will be "permanently" funded for all eternity. You don't need a master's in Political Science to understand that--it's simple common sense. It's like adults believing in Santa Claus."
The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller: "This is why they really hate him - because he's showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people"
pattonoswalt: "This MONSTER"
demzdeliver: "NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks. Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day."
Austin Berg on X - "Seems notable that the single largest lever in Mayor Mamdani’s proposal to close New York City’s budget deficit is not a new tax on the rich or new state funding. It is simply lowering the city’s contributions to its pension funds (saving $2.3 billion). And that move was made possible due to higher-than-expected investment returns over the last several years. Capitalism was the mayor’s saving grace."
Yogi on X - "Mamdani is lying to you. He didn't turn a $12B budget deficit to $0.
Spark notes: He inflated the deficit by $8B compared to Adams, brought it back down, then closed the rest with one-off bailout funds from Kathy Hochul who's desperate for a win. Funny thing is most of you morons believe it. The entire Democratic party is cheering a lie while "cooking" the books. New York City has been LEGALLY REQUIRED to balance its budget every single year since 1975. State law. The Financial Emergency Act. Passed after the city almost went bankrupt and Gerald Ford told them to drop dead. Mamdani's own budget message brags this is the 47th consecutive balanced budget. Bloomberg balanced. de Blasio balanced. Adams balanced. Giuliani balanced. Crediting Mamdani for balancing the budget is like crediting a taxi driver for stopping at a red light. Now the $12 billion. Adams left office with a projected FY27 gap of $4.69 billion. So where did the extra eight billion come from? Mamdani's own team. They walked in and moved hidden spending back onto the books: rental assistance, shelter ops, special ed reimbursements, NYPD overtime. Legit cleanup work. Then they ran to a podium and called it a deficit they inherited. They printed the number. Then they took credit for printing the number. How did they "close" it? Half came from Albany. Hochul wrote a check: $8 billion in state aid over two years. THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. HE DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING. Mamdani's signature millionaire's tax? KILLED by Hochul. Corporate rate hike? KILLED. Free buses he ran on? KILLED. CityFHEPS expansion he campaigned on? He's in court right now fighting it. Then there's the pension trick. $1.64 billion of the "savings" comes from extending pension amortization from 2032 to 2037. The Citizens Budget Commission called it "a pension gimmick" that "balances this budget on the backs of future New Yorkers." William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance, said it "creates a debt that's more expensive than muni bonds."
And the kicker. The budget IS NOT ADOPTED. Council votes June 30. The state budget the whole thing depends on was still not enacted as of last week.
Out-year gaps under Mamdani's own numbers:
FY2028: $7.1 billion
FY2029: $8.5 billion
FY2030: $9.8 billion
The hole grew $5.4 billion in three months.
So the real headline. Hochul cut a check. Future workers eat the pension bill. The structural deficit is BIGGER than the day he walked in. They didn't fix anything. They moved it.
The math: $4.69B real gap. $8B from Hochul. $1.64B pension can-kick. $25.9B in future gaps. He didn't balance the books. But he's gambling your future and kicking the can down the road. So maybe stop celebrating. But what do I know. Good luck."
Left wingers are crowing that he balanced the budget by "taxing the 'rich'" and not cutting services. Lol
New York Post on X - "Mamdani blasted for planned cuts to veterans services, axing events including parade"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "It's quite simple actually. The mayor isn't an American in any meaningful way other than paperwork, and in fact seems to hold nothing but contempt for our traditions and values, so why would we expect him to care about the men and women who fought and sacrificed to defend this country? There will be endless billions for progressive nonprofits to 'organize' on behalf of the DSA and for useless pet projects and leftist special interests, but our veterans get less in the annual budget than we spend to build a single public toilet. It's a disgrace. My district has the largest number of veterans per capita in the entire city, and my district office hosts the first and only veteran resource center in New York. I meet these men and women every day and my office tries to do everything we can for them, but we're already operating on a shoestring and it's heartbreaking to think we're going to have even less to offer them. When we import the third world, we become the third world. And with that we discard what's always been most important to us as a nation, as our resources are pillaged and our traditions defiled. Very sad."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day."
Austin Berg on X - "Seems notable that the single largest lever in Mayor Mamdani’s proposal to close New York City’s budget deficit is not a new tax on the rich or new state funding. It is simply lowering the city’s contributions to its pension funds (saving $2.3 billion). And that move was made possible due to higher-than-expected investment returns over the last several years. Capitalism was the mayor’s saving grace."
Insurrection Barbie on X - "Mamdani’s budget plan in full:
Step 1 — inherit a deficit
Step 2 — create a bigger deficit, but schedule it for later
Step 3 — borrow 7 billion dollars from future New Yorkers who can’t vote yet
Step 4 — call it savings, film a viral video about pens and paper, and declare victory
Have a bunch of illiterate people cheer."
John M Chell on X - [On dropping crime] "Sorry to burst the Mayors bubble here but this is a continuation of 3 years of grinding by the NYPD- he has done nothing. PC Tisch has been continuing the trend since 2023 - a strategy built by my team and executed by the rank and file - Eric Adams allowed us to be cops. My sources tell me that he and his team are absolutely clueless about public safety and it shows. I’d rather you just said Thank you. Nice try but gotta hit the BS button on this one."
Hannah Simpson | Facebook - "Dear Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, FOX 5 NY, Mamdani, you specifically mentioned your concerns about the Israel’s “government” as your reason to avoid this year’s parade, despite it being an event that is about a celebration of deep cultural ties to an ancestral homeland, which has gone on across decades of governments that come and go—both within Israel and in NYC itself. However, you seemed to be having a blast at the Chinese New Year festivities not long after your inauguration. Could you please give us an equally thoughtful analysis of the current Chinese government and how their performance or efforts encouraged you to come out? This is the part people don’t get: Anti-semtism isn’t merely the decision he made, it’s the hypocrisy and the double standard."
Rabbi Poupko on X - "First The Israel Day Parade, now this. Zohran Mamdani is planning on removing the name of NYC Mayor Ed Koch from the East 59th Street iconic Ed Koch Bridge (aka Queensboro Bridge). A disgraceful erasure of Jews by a NYC mayor."
Trisha Posner on X - "Mamdani is hiding the anti-Jewish part of the move under the guise of LGB activism since it is being framed as criticism of Koch’s response to the AIDS crisis when he was Mayor in the 80s! If anyone thinks this renaming effort is just about what Koch did or did not do 40 years ago in office about AIDS, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. How times have changed over those decades, @RabbiPoupko . From 1974 to 1989, NYC had 2 back-to-back Jewish mayors (Abe Beam and Ed Koch), and then again a Jewish mayor in Michael Bloomberg from 2002-2013. @geraldposner and I lived full time in NYC from ‘78 to 2003 and it was then an oasis free for the most part of the anti-Jewish/antisemitism that now seems part of the city’s DNA under its radical far-left @NYCMayor"
Meme - Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate: "This is a good example of what radicalizes Mamdani's base: Ostensibly the type of person who takes this job is going to be sort of smart and well educated (credentialed) but they're only going to be comfortable financially and wise in NYC if they have a trust fund or it's a second-income vanity career. You can get off a plane from wherever and barely speak English and make this much driving an Uber. Nurses in NYC can easily make $150k a year. The dynamics of our economy that funnel people into these sort-of- high-status/ mediocre-salary jobs make them insane and then they become Leftists who want to burn everything down."
emily rahhal she/her @Rahhalemily: "@NYCMayor is searching for a new speechwriter"
"Associate Speechwriter. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR. No Exam Required. Department: Director Of Communications. Salary Range: $80,000.00 $90,000.00. Full-Time. Location: MANHATTAN"
