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Tenants beware: Mamdani is already kicking off his radical scheme to socialize housing

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is officially kicking off his scheme to socialize the city’s housing stock with his “Fix the City” program.

The idea of the program is to target Gotham’s worst landlords by levying heavy fines and taking court action to confiscate their buildings if they don’t fix violations and/or pay the fines.

All that’s missing is the slogan: Tenants of New York unite! Dilapidated public housing for all!

Don’t doubt it: The radical New York State Tenant Bloc, once headed by Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s tenant czar, is strongly pushing City Hall to use a $2.2 billion fund to “take housing off landlords’ hands.”

City Hall’s comrades blame the Big Apple’s housing crisis on “greedy” landlords — mostly small-time, working-class property owners — and they fiercely believe ownership by government........

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