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Mamdani’s deadly double standard for NYC apartment rehabs

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Progressives are criticized for supporting expensive public rehabilitation projects like Brooklyn’s Nostrand Houses receiving over $600 million to fix nearly 1,200 NYCHA apartments, while simultaneously blocking private landlords from rehabilitating their vacant units due to rent control laws. The article argues that this double standard hurts both poor and non-poor residents by shrinking the housing supply, as private landlords are unable to raise rents sufficiently to cover repair costs, leading to empty apartments staying off the market unnecessarily.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that Brooklyn's Nostrand Houses complex, managed by NYCHA, is receiving over $600 million in public funding for rehabilitation. This translates to more than $500,000 per unit for almost 1,200 apartments. Meanwhile, the state and city deny similar support to private landlords needing to bring their vacant units up to code. The editorial argues that NYCHA is failing due to a $100 billion capital needs shortfall, while rent-regulated private owners are unable to raise rents necessary for repairs. As a result, tens of thousands of apartments remain unoccupied and off the market, exacerbating housing shortages across the city. The author contends that allowing landlords to invest in their properties without excessive regulatory restrictions could help alleviate this crisis.

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Consider Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proud notice that Brooklyn’s Nostrand Houses complex is getting over $600 million in pubic support to rehab almost 1,200 NYCHA apartments, which works out to over $500,000 a unit — even as the state and city deny private landlords’ needs to spend anything like that to get their vacant apartments up to code.

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Mamdani’s deadly double standard for NYC apartment rehabs · assertive framing

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Why do progressives refuse to see how they’re killing the city’s housing market? asserted

they → refuse → market

apartments → consider → code

NYCHA is falling apart, with a capital-needs shortfall approaching $100 billion; that’s how badly public ownership of residential apartments has failed the city. asserted

ownership → fall → city

Yet private owners of rental apartments are blocked by law from raising the rent to cover the cost of rehabbing their units — so tens of thousands of rent-regulated apartments sit empty, off the market needlessly. asserted

thousands → block → market

State progressives’ 2019 law pretends to protect low-income tenants with this mandate, when in fact poor and non-poor suffer from a shrinking housing supply. asserted

poor → pretend → supply

NYCHA will never get all the cash it needs to stop many complexes from falling apart completely, while private landlords only want a chance to improve their buildings without having the government’s heavy hand artificially depressing prices. asserted

hand → get → prices

When running for mayor, Mamdani claimed, “For those landlords who need a little extra help, there’s a city fund they can apply to.” asserted

they → run → help

When pressed for details on this city fund, the mayor’s office stonewalls. asserted

office → press → fund

Because no such fund will give landlords money to repair their buildings; at most, the city offers financing, but only if you enter covenants that impose even higher costs. asserted

that → give → costs

Nowhere else does the city forbid price increases: People need underwear and shoes, but nobody expects the government to force stores to sell them below cost. asserted

government → forbid → cost

It doesn’t work for housing, either — but the “social justice” crew doesn’t care. asserted

crew → work → housing

If they have their way long enough, the entire city housing market will be a disaster as bad as NYCHA. asserted

market → have → NYCHA

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