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Many thought he couldn’t do it in New York City. He has found a way
The Communist Twelver Shi’ite mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, made a major announcement on Tuesday: he is beginning to implement the Marxist seizure of property in New York City.
He did not, of course, state that in so many words. As Marxists always do, he couched his plans in the language of social justice, claiming that he was striking out against bad landlords and providing an opportunity for all New Yorkers to live in decent, fairly-priced housing. And as is always the case with Marxist promises, Mamdani’s big announcement was an obvious and flagrant lie to cover up for his seizure of private property, not so much on behalf of the city government as for the benefit of his far-left cronies.
Mamdani announced that he was going to seize rental properties from landlords who have not maintained them properly, and hand over ownership not to the city government, but to supposedly impartial players and fair dealers such as “community land trusts” and “non-profits.”
“For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect,” Mamdani announced proudly, “we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”
Anyone who has been paying attention to Mamdani’s rapid rise could have seen this coming. Intifada on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani details how he has made socialized housing a centerpiece of his program ever since he entered politics. “People often ask,” he wrote on December 3, 2020, “what socialists mean when we say we want to ‘decommodify’ housing. Basically, we want to move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it on the market & toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all.”
The plan he unveiled Tuesday would move toward that, but the state wouldn’t own the housing; non-profits would own the housing, which means that he will be giving the properties over to his friends to give them a secure source of funding in order to help the far-left consolidate its power over the city.
New York City Council member Vickie Paladino, one of Mamdani’s most vociferous and insightful critics, explains: “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 multibillion-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.”
This sounds as if Mamdani’s housing plan will be a great leap forward for securing socialist hegemony over New York City for the indefinite future, and making the once-great city into a base from which the same principles are applied elsewhere, until there are no more capitalists to plunder. --->READ MORE HERE
“When necessary we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers.”
New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to seize neglected properties from landlords and transfer them to new ownership groups.
“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,” Mamdani said. “When necessary we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers.”
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
Mamdani did not detail how the city would legally seize or transfer ownership of privately held properties. One possible mechanism is New York City’s controversial Third Party Transfer (TPT) program, which allowed the city to foreclose on distressed buildings whose owners owed back property taxes or water charges and had accumulated significant housing code violations before transferring them to nonprofit housing groups or tenant organizations.
Under the program, landlords who failed to resolve violations or pay city debts could face foreclosure proceedings initiated by the city. Once the city gained control of a property, ownership could then be transferred to nonprofits, community land trusts, or tenant groups.
Critics argued the policy enabled the government to strip owners of valuable equity through aggressive code enforcement and foreclosure actions. --->READ MORE HERE
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