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Posted on 10/29/2026 5:03:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Once socialism is embedded in our laws and institutions, the march to communism begins.
Imagine you own an apartment building and need to sell it. The mortgage comes due, insurance premiums keep climbing, repairs cannot wait, and you have found a willing buyer. You have negotiated a price and are ready to close. Then New York City tells you to wait.
Your financial obligations do not wait. Your buyer may not wait. But under New York City’s Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, known as COPA, the government can insert a lengthy process between you and the sale of your own property. What should be a private transaction becomes subject to a timetable designed to give selected organizations an opportunity to purchase the building first.
This is the kind of incremental change worth examining. Socialism does not always announce its arrival with bullets and revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a statute that sounds reasonable, addresses a genuine concern, and changes the rules one transaction at a time.
On October 22, the New York City Council passed COPA by a vote of 38 to 9, with two members abstaining. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has championed the measure. The revised bill is narrower than earlier proposals and is expected to cover roughly 2,100 multifamily buildings meeting specified conditions involving serious housing violations, city enforcement programs, or affordability restrictions. Qualifying owner-occupied buildings with five or fewer units are exempt. The law is scheduled to take effect one year after enactment.
Under COPA, owners of covered properties are mandated by to inform the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development when they intend to sell. Qualified nonprofit organizations have 20 days to express interest and another 70 days to submit an initial offer. Additional procedures can give a qualified organization the right to match an outside
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It would be terrible to own a rental property in NYC.
This is how the Commies effective steal your private property. Owning and control your private property is a an anathema to Commies.
So glad I live far &away from there with that Mayor Momdani & other equally inept people in charge.
Full throttle TOTALITARIANISM. 1.5 billions believers want us dead yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.
“No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”
“EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY”
State and local government can’t favor entities over natural persons of any race.
NY City is a welfare city. It produces nothing. It lives off the skimmings of printed-fiat, debt-trading Wall Street, state aid, and massive Federal transfers.
Over generations, that non-stop availability of money has produced an entitled political class which has gone increasingly aggressive and marxist.
The rest of America is tired of their bullshit. They need to be shut down.
GROUND RENT AGREEMENT
Mr. White agrees to rent 10 acres off Mr. Farmer and lease back 9 acres for agricultural purposes for a net payment equal to the property tax on the 10 acres....
If a legally and practically habitable dwelling on the one acre is not completed within three years, or the dwelling becomes poorly maintained or uninhabitable for over 90 days, or the dwelling is rented for over 3,000 days in total, this agreement shall become void and the 10 acres shall revert to Mr. Farmer, his heirs and assigns, and the improvements shall follow.
A dwelling in rural areas is going to be cheaper that what union labor can build an apartment in New York City for.
“They need to be shut down.”
There’s guy on the phone who wants to give NYC to our country, Presidente.
The sooner the better.
Big time.
It’s not a slippery slope if it was always part of the program.
-- Zohran Mamdani
"Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy."
-- Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s Director of the Office to Protect Tenants
Their goal, like all good Commies is government confiscation and abolition of private property. They live like kings (or old Soviet Bosses) while you shiver in the dark and starve.
If you voted for this, you deserve whatever hell these Commies will rain down on you.
Any collectivist polity is like mad cow disease. No cure and the end is inevitable.
Turn aside.
ping
Links to the Internet’s graphic exposure of socialism:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4396982/posts?page=8#8
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4392079/posts?page=22#22
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4382560/posts?page=22#22
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4382462/posts?page=39#39
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4382339/posts?page=50#50
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4360015/posts?page=91#91
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4352333/posts?page=73#73
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4334838/posts?page=11#11
Incrementalism has been the M.O. for the RATS for decades. They start out little, then work themselves up to full-blown mode. Like it started with the gays "We just want to get married," and it ended up with men who think they're women, using women's bathrooms, and participating in girl's high school and college sports teams. Little-by-little they push to take our rights away.
Once socialism is embedded in our laws and institutions, the march to communism begins.
Blue states noted.
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