Zohran Mamdani has announced that New York city authorities can attempt to confiscate private property if landlords fail to abide by the housing code.
On Friday the new New York Mayor said: “We want to make it clear to everyone in this city that no one is above the law. If you are a landlord violating the law, then this administration will hold you to account”.
InfoWars reports: Mamdani was speaking from Jackson Heights, where he announced a $2.1 million settlement with A&E Real Estate, which owns 14 buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, housing 750 tenants.
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Mamdani was asked by a reporter why the city hadn’t simply taken over the buildings.
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“The intended outcome is safety and wellbeing for tenants. That is what we are driven toward,” explained Mamdani.
“The settlement announced today requires A&E Real Estate to pay $2.1 million in fines, fix 4,000 violations across its buildings, and includes an injunction to prohibit A&E from harassing tenants.”
Dina Levy, Mamdani’s housing commissioner, added that in cases where tenants’ health and safety are at risk, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development will “use 7A administrative proceedings to remove the buildings from the owner’s control and install responsive management.”
At the beginning of January, embarrassing social-media posts by Mamdani’s new “property tsar” were dug up in which she called for the seizure of private property and labelled home ownership “white supremacy.”
According to The New York Post, “Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths.”
“Seize private property!” she wrote on 13 June 2018.
A year later, she wrote, “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.”
Weaver also called to “Elect more communists” and ranted about the death of George Floyd.
“The Police Are Just People The State Sanctions To Murder W[ith] Immunity,” she wrote.
Weaver, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, served as an adviser to the Mamdani campaign before taking on an official role in the new mayoral administration.
Mamdani, who also called to “seize the means of production,” wants to freeze the rent on one million rent-regulated apartments in New York.
Mamdani also signed an executive order creating “Rental Ripoff” hearings across the five boroughs within the first 100 days of his time as mayor.
“Too many New Yorkers have been forced to pay more for less—living in unsafe, unconscionable, and unaffordable housing,” the mayor said.
“Under my administration, that ends. Today’s executive order is the first step towards giving New Yorkers a voice in addressing the housing crisis that is pricing them out of our city.”
