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Champagne Socialist Zohran Mamdani slammed for hogging $2,300 apartment — despite six-figure salary, wealthy family
NY Post ^ | 8/09/25 | Rich Calder, Samantha Olander, Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 08/09/2025 5:38:44 PM PDT by Libloather

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a silver-spoon socialist shamelessly living in a dirt cheap rent-stabilized apartment – and it’s time to move out, fed up neighbors and critics told The Post.

Mamdani, 33, who rakes in $142,000 a year as a state assemblyman and whose wealthy family includes his filmmaker mom and professor dad, has been living in a $2,300-a-month, one-bedroom pad in Astoria — galling facts that reached critical mass Saturday.

“It’s unfortunate that he supports policies that are great for the fortunate few [who] get these apartments,” said Jerry DeFazio, 33, a mechanical engineer who lived in the same building as Mamdani.

“It makes it harder for everyone to afford … since landlords raise the other rents, like mine, to pay for his.”

Mayor Eric Adams accused Mamdani of “exploiting a system designed to serve the most vulnerable.”

“This is not public service; this is self-service,” he told The Post.

“It is outrageous that … a man who presents himself as a champion of the poor would occupy an apartment intended for public housing while thousands of New Yorkers sleep in shelters or on the streets. I was born in Brownsville and understand firsthand what it means to fight for a roof over your head.”

Jim Walden, a lawyer running as an independent for mayor, said it’s “obscene for wealthy people like Mamdani to get rent-stabilized apartments [and] for elected officials to benefit from programs they vote on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: apartment; itstheislamstupid; itsthemarxismstupid; mamdani; socialist; starvetheleft; wealthy

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Zoltron already scammin' the system.
1 posted on 08/09/2025 5:38:44 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

This won’t get one person to change their vote.


2 posted on 08/09/2025 5:39:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

$2300 a month, for a single bedroom?


3 posted on 08/09/2025 5:40:51 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Libloather

The greatest gap between “the rich” and “the poor” exists in Communist countries. He is just following the Communist program.


4 posted on 08/09/2025 5:43:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Libloather

Make him live in a refrigerator box on the sidewalk outside of City Hall.


5 posted on 08/09/2025 5:49:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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$2300 a month, for a single bedroom?

My wife said the same. I told her, "Three words: Sweet Home Alabama".

6 posted on 08/09/2025 5:52:31 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: eclecticEel

Yeah curious what a similar non rent controlled single bedroom goes for?


7 posted on 08/09/2025 6:06:42 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

Commies always want what is best for them while everyone else suffers..but his dumb ass supporters will still support him, they dont care..he supports hamas, so do they so thats enough


8 posted on 08/09/2025 6:16:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Libloather

What’s going to become of New York City, after they elect this communist con-man?


9 posted on 08/09/2025 6:18:33 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Libloather

Socialist Supreme - Idi Amin Mamdani.


10 posted on 08/09/2025 6:20:38 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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To: Libloather

Commies NEVeR spend their own money


11 posted on 08/09/2025 6:34:17 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Paladin2

Let’s see Comrade Mamdani walk the walk and not just talk the talk.


12 posted on 08/09/2025 6:41:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Organic Panic

They only spend other people’s money.


13 posted on 08/09/2025 6:41:32 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Whatever…he’s in. He could publicly drown a litter of kittens and he’s in


14 posted on 08/09/2025 6:58:34 PM PDT by albie
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To: eclecticEel

“$2300 a month, for a single bedroom?”

My sister got married in upstate NY in 1969.

She and her husband were looking for a one-bedroom apartment. I remember $190/month as a typical amount.

Adjusted for inflation, that $190/month would be $1900/month.

NYC was always more expensive than upstate.

In the Northern Virginia area, rents circa 1992 were about $600/month. That would be about $2000/month adjusted for inflation.


15 posted on 08/09/2025 7:18:51 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Libloather

“rent-stabilized” is the norm for NYC I believe.

Only a small percentage are ‘rent-controlled’ as I understand things.

A larger percentage is market-rate, I believe, but that percentage can’t be large as the rates are very expensive.

And before you get high and mighty on me, remember the federal government lowered interest rates during COVID. Yup, ~3%, 30-year mortgages, mainly bought by federal entities I suspect.


16 posted on 08/09/2025 7:28:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Libloather

He needs to pay back what he has been defrauding from the government! Plus interest - compounded. Fork it over, Pal!


17 posted on 08/09/2025 7:29:43 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Libloather

Did he break a law?

Probably not.


18 posted on 08/09/2025 7:30:22 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Libloather

I would not consider myself lucky if I paid $2,300/month for a one-bedroom apartment.

Pay me $143K/year to bray and lucky me I would say.


19 posted on 08/09/2025 7:33:47 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Libloather

I remember browsing the NY Times in 1982, which I subscribed to.

The prospect of paying $40K for a NYC condo/co-op and then what I paid in rent for my Northern Virginia apartment held no appeal for me.


20 posted on 08/09/2025 7:41:36 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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