The End Of Private Housing In NYC

 From AND Magazine:

“Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth-building’ public policy.”

These are all Twitter posts by Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new Director of the Office to Protect Tenants. Weaver is the former director of coalitions at Housing Justice for All, a group that counts dozens of radical, far-left organizations as coalition members, including the Communist Party of the United States of America and the New York Young Communist League.

Mamdani is wasting no time. He is on record as saying that housing should be “decommodified”, which is Marxist-speak for the idea that the real estate you thought you owned should now belong to the state. He is now moving quickly to put that principle into action. The test case he has chosen involves Pinnacle Realty.

Pinnacle owns a total of 146 properties across New York City. It is in bankruptcy proceedings and wants to sell off 93 of these properties. Thousands of New Yorkers are tenants in these buildings. (Read more.)