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Mamdani’s rent-freeze win could come back to bite him — at the Supreme Court

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Tenants’ groups and left-wing activists are cheering New York City’s newly announced multi-year rent freeze. 

But they could be in for a judicial smackdown: Don’t expect Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze to survive a constitutional challenge.

In 2023 and twice in 2024 a hesitant US Supreme Court declined to hear building owners’ challenges to New York state’s rent regulations. 

Lower courts acknowledged the regulations diminished the value of rental properties but said the state was balancing the rights of owners with the need to protect tenants. 

At the time, Justice Clarence Thomas said the constitutionality of New York’s rent regulations is “an important and pressing question” — and that he looked forward to a rent-control case that clearly demonstrates the government going too far to take an owner’s property.

Mamdani has given Justice Thomas what he’s been waiting for, on a silver platter.

Mamdani’s rent freeze means big trouble for MOST tenants, and maybe for ALL

Mamdani froze the rent for a million New Yorkers — these Bronx tenants say he left them behind

NYC’s failing small landlords deserve a Rent Guidelines Board split decision

Moscow Mamdani’s scheme to deny landlords any rent hikes at all smacks of the kind of expropriation of private property that occurs in Cuba, Venezuela and other socialist nations. 

Not in America: The US Constitution prohibits........

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