Many of the landlords of the apartment buildings are absentee RINOs living in Garden City and elsewhere in New York far removed from their affordable housing roach motels. They're anything BUT affordable BTW. I won't speak harsh about the people living there. When I did house-to-house for the fire department they gave the most donations.
The illegals in my nabe in Brooklyn would pay $950+ to share a one bedroom between two families.
some of the big landlords have many houses that they have turned into illegal units. they get money from government programs for many of their tenants.
i don't understand the whole picture, but i think it is pretty incredible.
tax payers are paying absentee landlords to house people illegally, and if a repub candidate objects, he is completely villified.
the town supervisor in huntington switched from repub to dem after he was re-elected, because the dem machine controls the whole operation in huntington and gets the campaign donations from the landlords.
(i don't dispute your points, however. i don't doubt that there are some repub absentee landlords doing the same thing.)