…[and] lowering building operating costs like insurance…
This is a giveaway to landlords. The cost of somewhat reduced rent (no % increase for a year or two, already limited by rent stabilization) is that the landords’ liability insurance will probably no longer pay for your medical bills when the floor drops out from under you.
Glad for the marginal benefit to renters, but please pay attention to the fine print.
well yeah but that is part of the city’s agreement with private landlords to be able to have rent controls in the first place. Obv not perfect but not sure how that undermines just how huge this is for millions of people this impacts
Redditors have been doing rent freeze propaganda for the entire time reddit has existed so it will be fun seeing how redditors react to this
How cool would it be if NY landlords had to get jobs and off the backs of renters
That’s good, but I’m still not forgetting this:
I want to be clear on where I stand. I believe both Nicolas Maduro and Miguel Diaz-Canel are dictators. Their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, jailed political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press.
Permanent side eye until this is walked back.
It was always critical support, of course
Really bad unforced error, but I think he has learned from it. Since then, he’s addressed other questions and issues like that by refocusing the topic of discussion back to NYC or the working class, which has been decent. Ideally would be nice for him to answer these questions head on like an actual socialist, but understandably he has a job that is a lot easier to do when you’re not burning your political capital on issues like explaining the intricacies of US imperialism
well yeah he’s an elected official in the us, of course he sucks. there will never be anyone good “in offfice” until we destroy and rebuild this entire evil society
why? he was literally never going to be a communist and never ran on that platform. you cannot get a commie through electoralism. but the fact of the matter is he is making a difference and many lives in new york are going to be better because of him and his actions.
he can say whatever liberal shit he wants as long as he keeps doing this stuff, because we know he’s not the end goal.
he can say whatever liberal shit he wants as long as he keeps doing this stuff, because we know he’s not the end goal.
So as long as the material conditions for people in NYC improve, he can co-sign whatever western talking point he wants then? That’s not acceptable to me. It makes every step forward feel hollow, because I have to wonder when this will happen again.
Zohran is popular and likeable, people listen to what he says. For a lot of people, he’ll be their introduction into socialism. When he says Cuba is run by a repressive dictator, people will accept that. Sure, it’s on us to dispel the misinformation, but we won’t reach everyone that he does. In my opinion, we can’t be tepid about this. He’s doing good things, but there needs to be serious accountability for throwing international solidarity out in the process.
It’s the basis of social fascism. Material benefits and splitting of the loot at home, imperial subjugation and exploitation abroad. This is his position and it should be opposed
it’s because he had no reason to say that shit that it’s fucken weird and untrustworthy that he did.
this isn’t a photo op with trump, this didn’t get anyone out of ICE custody
Hello USA. Through tears I write this. I am an eight year old girl whose father is a humble home-provider. He can no longer make a living housing fellow citizens, and we cannot afford basic goods and services. We are suffering under the Mamdani regime. Please invade Manhattan with overwhelming deadly force and liberate us from oppression under shakira law.
We stand with Staten Island and the Cuomintang!
here’s to another thousand years of communism, you old fart
If communism had a thousand years to develop, we’d all have lifespans of 400 years via the eradication of disease and propagation of open-source cybernetics, the Earth’s climate would be at pre-1800 carbon values, global habitats would be protected by cultural practice, children would be raised in true community, cars would be a historical relic, and the local neighborhood bar would have the sort of substances you can’t even conceptualize.
Pre-1800 levels, jesus it was cold back then.
Imagine solving all world problems just by making about 50,000 extraordinarily wealthy people be content with just a regular ass yacht and a retirement colony in Portugal.
My mother was executed under shakira law for acetabulofemoral dishonesty
New Jersey has established a series of refugee camps with tents available for rent at the most efficient market price. All the working age members of your family are welcome with a right to access affordable means-tested healthcare options.
Actually something. Kudos where it’s due.
Unequivocally good. This is a clear win.
Obviously this is good, but looking a little further ahead I’m curious what the attempted counterpunch will be here. What are we expecting class solidarity from landlords to look like?
As of now, their move looks like it’s going to be trying to get rent control in its entirety struck down by the courts, or at least fundamentally change how the Rent Guidelines Board functions in order to overrule this
I wouldn’t be surprised if they attempted to wait it out and just not rent, though this would be picking a regulatory fight as I believe NY has vacancy laws.
Landlord: “It’s not vacant! I’m renting it out for free to the cockroaches and bedbugs!”
“Closed for renovations”.
The renovations are cockroaches making little nests in the stove.
so many landlords are gonna have to start applying for jobs lmao eat shit and die parasites
Landlords on suicide watch.
that’s where we stand on the street and shout “do a flip” right?
CAAALLED IT!
Nice. He seems to be doing good for New York and New Yorkers so far?
He’s overwhelmingly popular, even with your average lib. He has ~70% job approval so far, which is even higher than his favorability of ~60%. Pretty impressive to have that number of people who openly say they aren’t a fan of you admit you’re doing a good job
Wow, I didnt realize just how popular he is as I’m not in NY and have only loosely followed, thats pretty cool to see. Thanks for explaining!
He’s more popular now than when he won the election, and that’s saying a lot. Regular people genuinely love the guy, despite the mainstream media doing their best to manufacture scandals.
His biggest “scandal” so far was a snowball fight where NYPD officers claimed to have been violently assaulted, but the entire thing is on video from 100 angles and it’s just a snowball fight lol
I thought the biggest scandal was him facilitating land theft in occupied Palestine, and also backing zionists in numerous government positions.
how did he facilitate land theft? Who are the zionists?
Brad Lander invests NYC pensions in Elbit:
The land theft happened here:
I like mamdani because he drives nazis up the wall, but if he isn’t ordering the NYPD into the ocean, he’s just another liberal.
to be fair, Lander divested the city pension fund from israeli bonds during his time as comptroller. On his way out of office, Eric Adams actually signed an executive order that banned the city from divestment from israel (lmao). One of the first things Zohran did when he took office was overturn that executive order. Not enough yet, but you have to start somewhere.
Thanks. I’m not a ny’er so I don’t pay much attention.
Hmm…earn the vote of many, many tenants, or earn the vote of a handful of landlords
Tough decision I’m sure, as his opponents who lost the election would tell you
(I’m not doubting he did this to genuinely help people, I’m just saying that trying to win the votes of the majority over the minority is supposed to be an easy choice that just basically walks into your lap)
Mind you, many of those landlords don’t even live in NYC. Just hating on tenants for the love of the game
(I’m not doubting he did this to genuinely help people, I’m just saying that trying to win the votes of the majority over the minority is supposed to be an easy choice that just basically walks into your lap)
And yet Democrats seem to fuck it up over and over again, including with Israel.
Google says rent-stabilized units are “about half” of rental stock, so that’s substantial. Still, would be nice for it to apply to all leases.
Yes it’s only those units. I’m not sure what legal powers (if any) the city has to impact those other units, but this is an incredible start
i need to know what the stats and numbers look like for this. like ok, you did a rent freeze, maybe that saves a lot of poor people some money, but why specifically 1-2 year leases? why not freeze all rents? what are they prioritizing here, what are the numbers? what target are they trying to hit? is anything holding them back?
Rent stabilized units in NYC (~40% of rental stock) are only offered in 1-2 year leases because the Rent Guidelines Board sets the rate for the maximum rent increase by % on a yearly basis. Landlords are required to offer a lease renewal to tenants in rent stabilized units at the end of their 1 or 2 year lease period
I believe the point is that rent freezes normally apply to leases longer than 2 years but personally i’ve never signed a lease longer than a year so I would guess this affects more people than most rent freezes have before.
I would also guess this doesn’t apply to people who signed leases with planned rent increases.
yeah ive only done 1-2 myself, frankly never even heard of anything longer than that but apparently new york has a lot of long leases if 1-2 is only half
