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Housing hypocrites Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani put politics over wisdom

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Another New York City mayoral election, same old campaign strategies: Bash landlords, politicize housing promises, rinse and repeat.

Small building owners are tired of politicians like Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo targeting the hard-working New Yorkers who provide the bulk of our city’s affordable housing — in an environment where government caps our rental income, but not our operating expenses.

The ignorant housing rhetoric of trust-fund baby Mamdani proves he lacks any understanding that a four-year rent freeze would trigger affordable-housing Armageddon.

But shouldn’t we expect Cuomo to acknowledge the economic distress his politics created for small rent-stabilized building owners?

Socialist Mamdani, as Cuomo “uncovered,” lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, despite his six-figure income and family wealth.

Hardly a new revelation: It’s been known for years that well-off politicians like Assembly Housing Committee Chair Linda Rosenthal, state Sens. Zellnor Myrie, Robert Jackson, Jessica Ramos, Kevin Parker and Gustavo Rivera, and City Councilman Keith........

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