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Mayor Zohran Mamdani Makes a Housing-Related Announcement
youtube ^ | 1/17/26 | NYC Mayors office

Posted on 01/19/2026 7:35:49 AM PST by AbolishCSEU

Mayor Zohran Mamdani Makes a Housing-Related Announcement

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This will drift upstate. The "REST" Act is now being pushed. Key takeaways:

1. An "Anti-Tenant Harassment" unit has been formed

2. Property will be taken away from owners who do not comply with the city's dictates

3. Aggrieved tenants and tenant groups will be consulted to form policy (more "tenant protection" law)

4. The overwhelming majority of landlords are greedy and evil

5. Landlords will be severely fined and sued to fill the city's coffers

This all under the guise of "health and safety" "for the children" concerns. Their first target is A&E Properties that holds mostly rent controlled units.

Most landlords are concerned with health and safety for the tenant as it is supposed to be a mutual business relationship, however NO mention is made of bad TENANT behavior such as :

1. arbitrarily withholding rent

2. squatting/holdovers with no intention of paying rent whatsoever

3. tenant-caused damages

4. tenant lease violations (dangerous animals, ESA faking, subletting, denial of access)

5. harassing the landlord (assault and in some cases ending in murder as seen throughout the country)

6. professional tenants using the system/legal loopholes

7. fake habitability claims while staying in said "unsafe" unit without paying rent

8. fraudulent documents submitted during the screening process with the intention of deliberate deception

1 posted on 01/19/2026 7:35:49 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
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To: AbolishCSEU

Let’s see how seizure of privately-owned real property plays out in court.

However, with today’s courts...the blatantly illegal is deemed legal and vice versa.


2 posted on 01/19/2026 7:38:44 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: AbolishCSEU

How plausible, or not, does the city’s position have to be in court to justify eminent domain condemnation and seizure?


3 posted on 01/19/2026 7:41:29 AM PST by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
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To: AbolishCSEU
Mamdani’s policies in a nutshell:


4 posted on 01/19/2026 7:46:12 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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This video is now in the growing Rumble catalog to watch and share to avoid using google products

Mayor Zohran Mamdani Makes a Housing Related Announcement
https://rumble.com/v74jpw6-mayor-zohran-mamdani-makes-a-housing-related-announcement.html


5 posted on 01/19/2026 7:50:37 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: AbolishCSEU

I keep having visions of the Lady Comrade in Doctor Zivago telling Yuri how it is much fairer that there are now 60 people living in his former Moscow house.


6 posted on 01/19/2026 7:54:42 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: AbolishCSEU

It won’t drift upstate...

1- the rich liberals in Weschester coounty won’t stand by and allow their mansions to be siezed..

2- except for NYChitty, most of the rest of the state is red. Putnam county voted for McCain over obama in 2008.


7 posted on 01/19/2026 8:16:27 AM PST by God luvs America
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To: woodbutcher1963
I keep having visions of the Lady Comrade in Doctor Zivago telling Yuri how it is much fairer that there are now 60 people living in his former Moscow house.

I thought the same thing lol.

8 posted on 01/19/2026 8:17:22 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: desertsolitaire

Mami will turn NYC into a Minneapolis in a few short months. Seems the dems are developing MYC to follow Minn. to gain control of the vote. Dems have nothing to offer the American Taxpayer so they develop fraudulent schemes for the money they can gain control of. Dems stand up to defend criminal illegals to turn America into a communist operation like putin”s russia.


9 posted on 01/19/2026 8:18:38 AM PST by chopperk
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To: AbolishCSEU

The great irony is that NY City produces NOTHING.

It exists off the skimmings from Wall Street trading, and Federal Government transfers.

America’s marxists exist on printed, fiat money, and debt.


10 posted on 01/19/2026 8:21:03 AM PST by PGR88
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To: AbolishCSEU

“1. An “Anti-Tenant Harassment” unit has been formed”

Formed SIX years ago.

They are just taking credit for work done by the previous administrations.


11 posted on 01/19/2026 8:27:12 AM PST by TexasGator
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2- except for NYChitty, most of the rest of the state is red. Putnam county voted for McCain over obama in 2008.

Yet somehow NY State is a woke-Democrat Uniparty state.

Of course, 100 years go, it was a solidly Republican state

Then in the 60's-90's it had a Democrat Assembly, with a solid Republican State Senate, and a governorship which could have Republicans interspersed - which kept downstate progressives from going too crazy

Since the 2000s, NY has become a one-party woke state. EVERYTHING NY Government does now is to ensure its continued rule, and promote leftist ideology.

12 posted on 01/19/2026 8:27:21 AM PST by PGR88
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To: God luvs America

Yes. I live in one of the red counties. Here are some of hte exceptions:
Tompkins county (Ithaca), Erie county (Buffalo), Monroe county (Rochester), Cayuga County (Syracuse).


13 posted on 01/19/2026 8:31:38 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

“2. Property will be taken away from owners who do not comply with the city’s dictates”

City will not take ownership.

They will put in management.


14 posted on 01/19/2026 8:32:00 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Waiting for the anti landlord harassment unit. Landlords have been attacked, assaulted, killed and dismembered throughout the country.


15 posted on 01/19/2026 8:32:19 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: TexasGator

Yes so basically your property will be managed the way the city wants. Just a hair away from a “taking.”


16 posted on 01/19/2026 8:33:00 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

“Yes so basically your property will be managed the way the city wants. Just a hair away from a “taking.”

That will not end well.


17 posted on 01/19/2026 8:36:32 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: AbolishCSEU

Syracuse and the Res are Onondaga County.


18 posted on 01/19/2026 8:39:07 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Hard for me to gin up any sympathy for what is going to happen to New Yorkers under the communist regime.


19 posted on 01/19/2026 8:48:30 AM PST by PAR35
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To: metmom

Pardon, Auburn


20 posted on 01/19/2026 8:56:08 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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