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Hiking water rates is another way Mamdani tosses ‘affordability’ overboard

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“Affordability” is going forgotten again as Mayor Zohran Mamdani grabs some extra cash for his agenda by racking water rates.

Over the objections of elected officials, homeowner groups and rate-payers, the city Water Board on Tuesday approved a 6% water-rate hike as of July 1. 

GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman rightly slammed it as “a multimillion-dollar backroom deal to bail out Mamdani’s city budget on the backs of hardworking taxpayers.”

The fix was in from the start: Mamdani’s executive budget spending plan had already baked in the rate hike months ago.

The average homeowner can expect to shell out an extra $100 a year, while water and sewer bills for apartment buildings........

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