Posted on 01/12/2019 4:47:31 PM PST by Twotone
Fresh off proposing yesterday that private employers be required to provide their workers with 10 days of paid vacation, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio set his sights on a new target: property owners.
During his State of the City Address, delivered Thursday, de Blasio warned that the city will take action against landlord abuse, even if that means seizing private property.
"When a landlord tries to push out a tenant by making their home unlivable, a team of inspectors and law enforcement agents will be on the ground in time to stop it," the mayor said. If fines and penalties don't do the trick, then "we will seize their buildings, and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve," he added.
But surely city officials won't have the time to find and punish each one of the city's bad landlords, right? Wrong. That's because de Blasio is creating a new agency devoted solely to landlord abuse: the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.
"The city's worst landlords will have a new sheriff to fear," de Blasio said, calling the new agency (which he created on the spot by signing an executive order) a "new arm of city government that will root out the worst landlord abuse."
As the New York Daily News notes, the city already has an Office of Tenant Advocate. However, it has not yet been funded, according to the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council.
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Hey, one rat has been getting his butt chewed.
Is he the token Repub. rat?
“I didn’t vote for this turd in any election, and I’m trying to move out of NY, to be rid of him, Schumer, Cuomo, and the insane city council.”
Come to Texas. I have only met a couple of transplanted New Yorkers who pined to go back.
You get what you vote for.
Karl Marx would be so proud of his disciple.
“The city’s worst landlords will have a new sheriff to fear,”
The Sheriff is near.
If there is no push back, then they deserve it.
Rent control is an oxymoron
Rent is reality
The buy house market is nonsense
When commies prevent rent they just delay inevitable
Next time I play Monopoly, I’m going to sieze a few properties...
If this tyranny goes into effect, I see landlords turning their apartments into condominiums and fleeing New York City. Soon there will be no apartments available and landlords to run them.
The Great and Powerful Julius Seizer.
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Let me be the first to congratulate you for that one.
How is he able to do this?
When castro rode into town, they celebrated.. they thought he was their savior from the former dictator. Then he took land, homes, businesses... said he was a commie. Educated, professionals had their businesses and homes taken and they fled to the United States.. aim was to start all over again.
That was a country take over. This in NY is a state... how does he have that kind of power to do this? Is there anything/anyone left to keep this country from socialism? There are very few who are allowed in the kingship of a socialist state.. all these people who think this is their utopia, had better rethink.. if they are not the head pins, they will have nothing!
Adam and Eve had a perfect world/place to live in... they wanted for nothing. Along came the snake and they fell for the lie. obama came in and showed them the other side of the garden.. he is a snake and they fell for it!
Thans. Do you see what I mean. De Vlasio violating the bilding owners 5th amendment right subjects the evil Commie to prosecution.
All your houses are belong to us...
Welcome to real Fascism smowflakesm
Must be Rat Ryan, former Squeaker of the House.
So... no new housing in NYC then. Why would anyone want to run a business with an actively hostile government?
Full title: Bill de Blasio: ‘We Will Seize Their Buildings, and We Will Put Them in the Hands of a Community Nonprofit’ (which I will administer and receive compensation ...)
Donch’a just love nationalization when it is done on a local level. Can’t wait for Bill to run for Dictator.
left in the 60s ....
I have been saying the same thing inmany posts. A Civil War would clear the air and clear the Commies, too.
#30 re photo of rats. Well, I see DeCommieo’s red ass but who are the other rats, the Marxist Progressive Caucus?
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