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Mamdani sparks tenant complaint crisis to ‘squeeze’ landlords and seize private property: critics
New York Post ^ | Aug. 30, 2026, | Gabrielle Fahmy and Shane Galvin

Posted on 08/30/2026 11:34:07 AM PDT by george76

Tenant complaints have surged 25% this year compared to last year in New York City, .. socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s twisted war to squeeze landlords — and seize private property — is escalating.

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The city put us in a situation where they’re just slowly beating us to death and blaming us,” said Lincoln Eccles, who owns a 15-unit building in Crown Heights. “The apparatus of the government is geared to squeeze us.”

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All of this tenant organizing is part of a long term project to take wealth away from people and redistribute it,” said Stu Smith, an investigative analyst with the Manhattan Institute. “They’re figuring out what pressure points they can act on to get their way.”

Complaints in Brooklyn — home to the “Commie Corridor,” a stretch of heavily Mamdani-supporting neighborhoods such as Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint — are rising at the quickest pace.

So far this year, Brooklynites logged 169,675 complaints compared to 128,337 at the same time last year — 32% more than the same span in 2025,

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Call 311,” Mamdani’s radical tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, who once declared property ownership a “weapon of white supremacy,”

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Weaver, who once said “if you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize private property, it’s over,” also boasted that HPD was beefing up its staffing.

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Mamdani’s controversial Office of Mass Engagement has even gone canvassing with the Democratic Socialists of America to encourage tenants to “band together” against landlords, knocking on doors in Flatbush just last week.

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“A fair and effective housing enforcement system should ensure that property owners are given reasonable opportunity to correct legitimate violations and weed out bogus tenant complaints. There also must be consequences for tenants who create the violations in the apartments, or report false complaints.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; cea; ceaweaver; liberaltruth; madmani; mamdani; muslimtruth; newyork; newyorkcity; private; privateproperty; property; propertyrights; socialist; weaver; zohran; zohranmamdani

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1 posted on 08/30/2026 11:34:07 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Commies start trouble wherever there is freedom.


2 posted on 08/30/2026 11:38:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: george76

Richard J. Daley – He served as the 48th mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death in 1976. Often called “the last of the big-city bosses,” he wielded immense power in local and national Democratic politics and spearheaded massive urban renewal projects.

Gee Moe who does that sound like?.


3 posted on 08/30/2026 11:44:12 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: george76

If MadNanny starts seizing property then I predict he will fall out of a window.


4 posted on 08/30/2026 11:47:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: george76

Will the last NYC new apartment house builder please pick up the white courtesy phone?

Some angry tenants want to bitch about you again and demand to know why no one is investing in apartments anymore?


5 posted on 08/30/2026 12:00:18 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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To: george76

After watching more than a few Sovereign Citizen traffic stops AND SovCit court hearings, one can see the methodology for remaining in a rental while paying no rent.

After enough months without receiving the rent, the landlord starts the eviction process. When it becomes serious, all of a sudden there is “black mold” “falling tiles” “no heat” etc. In some States, these “issues” put the eviction process on hold until fixed. The most ridiculous was a husband, wife, and three small children. They refused to leave a duplex that, according to the parents, was TOXIC for THEIR own children. The Judge was just shaking his head.


6 posted on 08/30/2026 12:00:41 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: MtnClimber

Mamdani’s new tenant advocate wants to seize private property .. Cea Weaver is a member of the Democrat Socialists of America, has claimed homeownership is a “weapon of white supremacy” and clamored to “seize private property. / constitutionally protected property rights ..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4360751/posts


7 posted on 08/30/2026 12:11:22 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: BenLurkin

“Commies start trouble wherever there is freedom.”

Commies AND muslims. With Mamdani you get the daily double. I enjoy a huge amount of schadenfreude when I hear the complaints from NYC.


8 posted on 08/30/2026 12:28:49 PM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: george76

This endgame scheme is defined and obvious: Via city machinations, coerce housing property owners to sell cheaply to either city or to a 3rd party friend-of-the-city.

A reputable law firm should document the skullduggery and sue, all the way to the Supreme Court.


9 posted on 08/30/2026 12:29:20 PM PDT by citizen (Say it with me.....the UK is now UKistan. Short & to the point.)
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To: george76

Germany under Hitler caused MANY Jews to sell properties at very low prices.


10 posted on 08/30/2026 12:29:29 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: george76

I could see Mad Nanny pinning Cea Weaver against the wall trying to molest her, except he pinned her against an open window and they both fell out. That is what happens in communist countries. It is so strange.


11 posted on 08/30/2026 12:44:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: george76

I predict a lot of burning buildings in NYC’s future.


12 posted on 08/30/2026 12:59:37 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: george76

After watching the movie Pacific Heights some 40 years ago, I swore I would never be a landlord.


13 posted on 08/30/2026 1:04:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: george76

“.. take wealth away from people and redistribute it,”..”

Says the Scorpion riding on the Alligators back.....


14 posted on 08/30/2026 1:09:10 PM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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To: george76

They voted for it.

Suckers.


15 posted on 08/30/2026 1:10:18 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is now all Trump hatred all the time from a handful of "Me, Me, Me" babies. )
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To: george76

Mamdani should face opposition.

Let’s all recall what Commies do about the right to buy a private home....

Doctor Zhivago....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ikX1e7TrQ


16 posted on 08/30/2026 1:21:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Vaduz

When I was 18, I got to work for famous photographer at the Dem National Convention in Chicago. All kinds of powerful people were there,. Daley was by far the most powerful. I’ve met a lot of powerful people, including Charles Kettering who was running General Motors.

Daley was by far the most powerful, actually had a light around him you could see before you saw him. My dad had some dealings with him, had same impression.

BTW, I met Nixon AND JFK. NO COMPARISON. AND IF DEMS TODAY HAD ANYONE HALFWAY AS POWERFUL, THEY MIGHT NOT BE SUCH JERKS. WITH DAL;EY, COMPANIES THAT PAID GRAFT ACTUALLY GOT WHAT THEY PAID FOR. MY DAD HAD SEVERAL SHOPS IN “CHICAGO AND HIS SIDEWALKS WERE SHOVELED AND HIS TRUKS GOT THROUGH WHEN OTHERS WERE STOPPED BECAUSE O


17 posted on 08/30/2026 3:01:38 PM PDT by Veto!
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To: MtnClimber

OR DISAPPEAR DOWN A MANHOLE.


18 posted on 08/30/2026 3:19:29 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: george76

Communism’s main goal is taking collective possession of all property and the means of production.


19 posted on 08/30/2026 3:23:17 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. Remember Iryna Zarutska and Justine Damond.)
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To: george76

Youse ain’t seen no Slumlord til youse see a Gobblemint Slumlord.

Those people are gonna rue the day. Of course, the city will lie in ruins, and will never be the same.


20 posted on 08/30/2026 4:15:38 PM PDT by _longranger81
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