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$60 million NYC housing-seizure debacle doesn’t deter Mamdani’s geniuses

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to expand his predecessor's controversial practice of seizing private residential properties from "bad actors" and transferring them to city-sponsored nonprofits, despite the city recently settling a lawsuit for $60 million over similar illegal seizures in 2018. The article argues that this approach is ineffective and harmful, as it undermines property rights without addressing underlying issues like maintenance and management, potentially exacerbating problems rather than solving them.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani's housing agenda in New York City is facing criticism after the city recently settled a lawsuit for $60 million, stemming from an illegal seizure of residential units that occurred during the de Blasio administration. Despite this costly debacle, Mamdani plans to expand the "Third Party Transfer" program, which allowed the city to take over properties deemed in disrepair or delinquent on taxes and hand them to nonprofits for management. Critics argue that such practices can unfairly strip homeowners of their assets without proper compensation. The mayor's new initiative, called "Block by Block," aims to broaden the criteria for defining distressed properties, potentially leading to more seizures. This policy could exacerbate issues like rent control maintenance problems and tenant union-driven rent strikes, ultimately bankrupting landlords further and allowing the city to seize more buildings.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agenda doubles down on a practice that just cost the city $60 million in damages. asserted

that → double → damages

The city this week paid that much to settle a lawsuit over the illegal seizure of residential units in 2018, yet Mamdani aims to amp up that de Blasio-era practice of grabbing private property from “bad actors” to turn it over to “responsible” nonprofits. asserted

Mamdani → pay → nonprofits

Mamdani wants to “reinvent” at scale the old “Third Party Transfer” program, which let the city take control of housing mired in back taxes or serious disrepair, transfer it to a city-sponsored nonprofit and then find a “third party” developer to rehab and manage the building. asserted

city → want → building

The de Blasio outrage was snapping up whole blocks of buildings just because one was in serious trouble: Homeowners who owned their property free and clear, but had an open violation or owed some back taxes, found themselves suddenly stripped of their assets as the city gobbled it all up without fair — or any — compensation. asserted

city → snap → compensation

Yet the mayor’s “Block by Block” housing plan aims to follow the same failed course: Mamdani says he wants to “expand the definition of distressed properties,” letting the city seize more buildings more easily. asserted

city → aim → buildings

From his first day in office, he’s touted his intention to remove “bad landlords” via what he calls “empowering tenants and strengthening enforcement.” asserted

he → tout → enforcement

That translates to sending out teams from his Orwellian Office of Mass Engagement to encourage tenants to form unions and register complaints every time a tenant sees a roach or a hallway bulb flickers. asserted

bulb → translate → roach

With rents frozen, maintenance will lag at the city’s older rent-controlled buildings, further juicing complaints; rent strikes — an open goal of the tenant union drive — will bankrupt landlords even more quickly. Then the city can seize the buildings and hand them over to friendly “third party” nonprofits — who still won’t have the rental income to do any better. asserted

who → freeze → income

Mamdani even wants a new law to give “qualified” nonprofits the right to step in and grab any residential building put up for sale, a scheme that will make it far harder to sell to anyone else and so make it cheaper for these politically connected groups to snatch up real estate. asserted

groups → want → estate

City Hall waves off any suggestion that $60 million in damages for a past, less ambitious execution of this scheme is cause for second thoughts. asserted

million → wave → thoughts

This crew just loves their theories, reality be damned: Trusting them with the city’s housing market is like giving car keys to a blind alcoholic — New York will be lucky if they crash quickly, before they can do too much damage. asserted

they → love → damage

$60 million NYC housing-seizure debacle doesn’t deter Mamdani’s geniuses

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