@PragmaticTd@valuesauce@spencerpratt The 2 million rent stabilized apartments shorten the supply of free market apartments in nyc, driving those prices up. 30% of people in the rent stabilized apartments don't need them, they make over $100k. Overall prices would go down without stabilization
@PragmaticTd@valuesauce@spencerpratt Yes I'm dumb thanks. That's why nyc has a larger education budget than the entire state of Florida yet has a lower literacy rate. I definitely trust the government to upgrade housing too!
@valuesauce@spencerpratt Right because the government does such a job allocating taxes that they should be given even more power and be our landlords too
@iownthelibs@defnotjec@greg_price11 I got blocked but I just want to say, no need to be disrespectful here we're on the same side and I want lower prices too! Have a great weekend fellas
@defnotjec@iownthelibs@greg_price11 And again you haven't said anything about over 30% of people in rent controlled apartments don't even need them they essentially won the lottery paying sub market prices while making 6 figures
@defnotjec@iownthelibs@greg_price11 The people in rent control apartments actually limit supply for everyone else and drive up those prices. Name one situation where rent control has worked
@defnotjec@greg_price11 Rent control apartments can only go up based on the rate of inflation which most times end up being $100 increase a year. 30% of people living in these rent control apartments make $100k+ per year. What would drive prices down is rezoning and adding incentives to build housing
Let’s break down what Mamdani did yesterday.
Zohran Mamdani had to delete his first post yesterday which originally described someone “attempting to blow up” Nerdeen Kiswani’s house—pure anger-stoking rhetoric.
Then, he still deliberately chose to spell out “Jewish Defense League” (not just the commonly abbreviated term JDL, like his post about the ISIS-inspired terrorists).
He had to shove “Jewish” front and center at the top of the post.
He wrote about fighting against political violence while ignoring Kiswani’s repeated calls for “resistance by any means necessary.”
The “flee to Israel” detail? Completely unnecessary. Kiswani loved it, and retweeted it enthusiastically.
Deliberate fuel on the fire. He knows what he’s doing.
He’s pretending to speak against political violence while inciting it.
Read this & let it sink in. 13 days into this cold spell & Zohran Mamdani was letting the homeless sleep under the Manhattan Bridge. For the last 30+ years the NYPD did Code Blue sweeps of the homeless off streets in freezing weather. Mamdani ended that policy & 19 people died.
The deficit crisis was never real. It was invented to pay for promises that were never free.
The deficit didn’t “drop” from $12B to $7B. It was never $12B to begin with.
It was inflated to scare the public and pressure Albany to raise your taxes to fund promises marketed as “free” during an election to buy votes.
Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle.
You have to be completely out of your f****ing mind to call that “white supremacy.”
That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.
This is spot on. If @NYCMayor Mamdani cared about NYC housing for the poor, the first thing he would do is fix the 180,000 NYCHA apartments rather than first focus on seizing private property.
NYC’s track record for managing and maintaining housing is extremely poor. From @Grok:
Key Ongoing Problems
• Repair Backlogs and Maintenance Delays — NYCHA faces a massive backlog of work orders, with over 600,000 open corrective maintenance requests reported in recent years. Mold remediation often misses targets: in 2024, mold was removed within the required five-day period only about 9% of the time, and in some periods as low as 7.7%. Residents frequently report prolonged issues with leaks, leading to extensive mold (84% of 2024 complaints involved mold spanning 10+ feet).
• Health and Safety Violations — Lead paint abatement has progressed (e.g., 13,041 units completed by April 2025), but compliance remains incomplete. Heat outages, elevator failures, pests, and waste management continue to fall short of HUD Agreement benchmarks. Even in properties converted to private management under RAD/PACT, thousands of violations persist, with some requiring city intervention for repairs.
Notice how they never talk about NYCHA being poorly maintained. The worst slums in the city are run by the government. But you never hear them talk about that.
Because they don't actually care about improving anything at all, they're interested in developing a pretense for seizing private property. That's all ANY of this is about.
If they REALLY were interested in building some kind of good faith and trust around their plans for housing socialization, the FIRST thing they'd be doing is getting NYCHA into shape.
They'd be focused like a laser on it, in fact. Fixing NYCHA by making it livable, safe, and efficiently managed would go a very long way towards the argument that the city can be trusted with expanding public housing. There would be some credibility behind their performative outrage about 'slumlords' if our city government wasn't the biggest slumlord itself.
But they're not doing that. Because they don't care. And they're not capable even if they did care. NYCHA can rot, because it's already in public hands so there's no more power to be extracted from it.
Instead they're simply constructing a rationale to go after private property for no other reason than the fact that they don't think private property should exist. That's it, that's all.
And once they've seized the private property and 'socialized' it? Well, then it can rot too, just like NYCHA. Because the point was always the seizure, not improving conditions for anyone. And magically, the outrage over poor living conditions for these properties will vanish too.
The leftist mind in a nutshell. A white immigrant billionaire who makes rocket ships and electric cars is a “parasite” but an unemployed black Somali immigrant who scams the welfare system is an integral contributor to American culture who we must welcome and praise at all times.