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    This is what a pro-tenant housing agenda looks like: 200,000 new rent-stabilized homes for NYC

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    4. Sans-valeur on

      It’s funny because all the red scare communist dictator scaremongering they’ve been doing for decades is pretty much being done by the current president anyways, meanwhile this dude is actually doing a bunch of shit that that president promised, like making things affordable, addressing corruption and actually fucking listening to people.

    5. GoredonTheDestroyer on

      Genuinely can’t wait to see this get spun as some super negative thing that will, singlehandedly, cause the total bankruptcy of New York state.

      Greg from Kansas should be weighing in any minute now.

    8. watarimono on

      I’m confused…where he got the money? Where was it before he took over? He took loans ?

      I’m totally amazed

    10. matt_minderbinder on

      Never forget that chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and so many other donor captured NY pols refused to even speak his name much less endorse him as the only Dem in that race. He’s exposing their years of accomplishing nothing as the ultimate sign that they never truly represented the people. They existed to temper expectations and tamp down the political imagination of voters.

    11. BuckeyeJay on

      With $22B in funding, they have about 1/3 of the estimated costs in place, which is huge

    13. IntelligentScholar32 on

      As a NYC resident, I can say voting for Mamdani was the best vote I’ve ever cast.

    15. xena_lawless on

      If you want more of this kind of thing, read Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis by Tracy Rosenthal and Leo Vilchis, co-founders of the LA Tenants’ Union.

      It has a lot of valuble insights applicable beyond just housing systems and housing policies, and I highly recommend it to everyone. 

      So obviously, landlords use and have used their power to shape housing systems and housing policies to serve their interests at the expense of the public.  

      Maybe less obviously, they also use their power to shape the way the general public thinks (and doesn’t think) about all kinds of things, even beyond housing systems and housing policies.  

      By limiting the public’s options and thinking, by conditioning people into being atomized serfs, and by forcing the public into conditions of maximum and frictionless exploitability, they’ve been totally steamrolling the public and maximizing their own profits and rents, with zero pushback whatsoever, for a long time.  

      So the book is a super necessary antidote to the ignorance, atomization, limited thinking, and lack of understanding and options that the landlords have been cultivating in the general public for a long time to maximize their own profits and rents.  

      The book is a good taste of what landlords and the ruling class don’t want the general public to know.

      I.e., that building sustainable, long term, collective power is extremely necessary, valuable, and useful to fight for justice and against injustice, oppression, and exploitation everywhere.  

      Mamdani’s own election was due in part to tenants realizing that they were in the majority (thanks to coordinated messaging efforts from NYS Tenants’ Bloc and Housing Justice for All), and then mobilizing to help get him elected.  

      https://convergencemag.com/articles/surround-sound-communications-how-to-build-a-narrative-machine/

      And he is delivering as a total champion for the people of NYC!  (Congrats, NYC!)

      That is just a small taste of the amazing things that **collective power and understanding** can accomplish, when people realize that they can build, grow, and make use of them.

      So I highly recommend the book, for a good taste of many things that landlords and the ruling class don’t want the general public to know.  

    16. NyxShadowhawk on

      Is it me or does his face look kind of like the V mask from V For Vendetta? Maybe it’s the dimples.

    17. big_d_usernametaken on

      You can tell he is successful so far, conservative pundits are beginning to attack him in print.

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