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State and city politicians keep offering “cures” for the ailing housing market that only make things worse.
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things → keep → market
If lawmakers insist on flouting the laws of economics, New York’s housing stock will crumble more, and both landlords and tenants will suffer even more.
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landlords → insist → economics
Take the city’s 57,000 zombie apartments — units that remain vacant because state law prevents owners from charging enough rent to cover the costs of bringing them up to code.
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law → take → code
This week, City Councilmember Farah Louis introduced legislation requiring the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to draft a plan to make these units available.
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units → introduce → plan
The fix, of course, is obvious: Let landlords pass more (if not all) of the repair costs to tenants, via higher rents.
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landlords → let → rents
Yet pigs will fly before prog lawmakers suggest that.
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lawmakers → fly → that
Expect HPD to instead call for new subsidies — courtesy of the taxpayers.
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HPD → expect → taxpayers
Yet city, state and federal budgets have no extra cash for such hand-outs, and government funding rarely goes where it’s needed most in any case.
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it → have → case
HPD might also propose penalties for keeping apartments vacant — i.e., more disincentives to invest in rent-regulated units.
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HPD → propose → units
Or take Mamdani’s efforts to turn buildings into New York City Housing Authority-style projects: His staff failed to steer a 38-building mostly rent-regulated portfolio to tenant-approved owners; the lenders who controlled the properties opted instead for a foreclosure sale.
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who → take → sale
At Tuesday’s auction, 14 of 15 buildings received no outside bidders, and the one that did sold for just $826,000 — less than half the $1.9 million loan amount.
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that → receive → 826,000
Duh: If government action (Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze, for one) forces owners to lose money on their buildings, who’d want to buy them?
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who → force → them
That’s why the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act Mamdani just signed into law — forcing owners of distressed buildings to sell to “qualified nonprofits” — will also flop.
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Mamdani → ’ → nonprofits
After all, even nonprofits must deal with economic reality: Unless they can fund a permanent annual loss on rent-capped buildings, they can’t afford operations either.
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they → deal → operations
More proof of socialist-housing insanity: In September, Hizzoner boasted of having paved the way (with HPD agreeing to use taxpayer money for repairs) for the sale of three Crown Heights buildings (facing more than 1,000 violations) to a savior landlord.
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HPD → boast → landlord
According to The City Reporter, the buyer has made “frequent appearances on the city’s worst landlord list”; he and his partners “have racked up more than 1,400 open housing code violations” in buildings they own or manage.
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they → accord → buildings
Tenants must be thrilled.
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Tenants → thrill → ?
Fact is, New York’s leaders refuse to address the key problem: Simple-minded “pro-tenant” moves discourage investment and shrink the housing stock — when growing it is the only way to truly bring down rent.
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it → refuse → rent
At the same time, below-market rents spark excess demand.
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rents → spark → demand
It gets ever harder to find a decent, affordable apartment in New York because the politicians’ “cures” are pure poison.
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cures → get → York
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