Now that Mamdani has passed his "balanced" budget, he's off to the races with implementing the parts of his socialist agenda over which he has control.
He's been stymied in some things, such as providing free buses, but has the power to do others, such as put more restrictions on the police in order to give free rein to the antisemites who are upping their harassment of Jews.
He's dumping money into his ridiculous city-run grocery stores, which are expensive but entirely symbolic in a city with millions of citizens who struggle to get around due to congestion; it's hard to benefit from one or two such grocery stores that won't even open for three or more years.
🚨ABSOLUTELY HISTORIC:
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) May 26, 2026
Mayor Mamdani just unveiled his “Block by Block” housing plan to build and preserve HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of affordable homes across New York City.
The plan includes 200,000 new affordable rent-stabilized homes, billions for NYCHA repairs, stronger… pic.twitter.com/umlnQXqAf3
🚨ABSOLUTELY HISTORIC:
Mayor Mamdani just unveiled his “Block by Block” housing plan to build and preserve HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of affordable homes across New York City.
The plan includes 200,000 new affordable rent-stabilized homes, billions for NYCHA repairs, stronger tenant protections, and a massive crackdown on slumlords.
“When New Yorkers can afford a home, they can afford to dream.”
This is the LARGEST municipal housing transformation proposal in modern NYC history.
Where Mamdani's socialism will rear its ugly head most, aside from his soft-on-crime policies, is in his planned takeover of the housing market.
🚨 HUGE: Zohran Mamdani just announced that NYC will build 200,000 new rent-stabilized homes. pic.twitter.com/0Jhe318Fzb
— Democrats Deliver (@DemzDeliver) May 26, 2026
His headline program will be the new public housing projects, which everybody knows will be models of cleanliness, civility, and livability.
Right?
But those are just the tip of the iceberg, and not remotely the point of his program. More city-run housing units, in a city where the government is already the biggest slumlord and abuser of tenants in the country, are just more of the same failed welfare-state policies that have been around for decades.
Mamdani has bigger plans, as he hinted at in his campaign, and confirmed with his appointment of communist nepo-baby Cea Weaver.
NEW from me:
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 14, 2026
During a 2021 podcast appearance, Cea Weaver said one of her goals was to "block evictions" and "chip away at homeownership" pic.twitter.com/xHs5RHlFvm
Cea Weaver doesn't believe in private property and wants homeownership eliminated, and Mamdani has a plan to begin this path through increased regulation of "slumlords."
A "slumlord" is basically anybody who gets complaints from tenants, and it is mighty easy to organize tenants to complain about their landlords, especially when you create NGOs to organize them to do so.
The goal is to rack up complaints, charge huge fines, and foreclose on landlords who cannot afford to pay for all the fines.
NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits.
— Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) May 26, 2026
“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… pic.twitter.com/YHhzGWPgWh
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.”
You see the strategy? It's actually quite genius, if you want to implement communism in a society where doing so is especially difficult. Rather than putting everybody you dislike against the wall, you pile up the regulations, selectively enforce them against chosen targets, seize the property, and hand it over to government-approved groups and individuals.
Mamdani’s plan is to create rules making privately owned buildings impossible to operate profitably, and then he is going to seize the buildings and use them to house illegal immigrants and junkies.
— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) May 26, 2026
In order to stop him, we must get a case in front of the Supreme Court to get… https://t.co/pXgOJQ3yWh
Mamdani’s plan is to create rules making privately owned buildings impossible to operate profitably, and then he is going to seize the buildings and use them to house illegal immigrants and junkies.
In order to stop him, we must get a case in front of the Supreme Court to get them to rule that rent regulation is an illegal taking, which will throw all rent-regulated units onto the open market, providing near-instantaneous rent relief to all market-rate renters.
Hasan Pike may want to disembowel landlords and drag them through the streets, but a man like Mamdani is much slicker and appears more anodyne. He just wants to help people, right?
And what better way than to hand over valuable property to collectives and NGOs, who can be sustained with grants that skim off the top. And when maintenance of the buildings is never done, as already happens in the city-owned apartment buildings that are falling apart, you get to pressure for ever more money.
It's the homeless scam, only with actual homes.
It's hard to sell the Hasan Piker vision to some people, but to the economically illiterate intelligentsia, socialism is easy enough, and you pay off the revolutionaries with some of that sweet cash you are vacuuming up.
Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.
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