In this New York Post article, Michael Goodwin warns that NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push for a two-year rent freeze on nearly one million stabilized units marks the beginning of a deliberate campaign to destroy the city’s free-market housing system.
- The Rent Guidelines Board, allegedly stacked by Mamdani, delivered the historic freeze on one- and two-year leases, which he hailed as a victory for working tenants while ignoring landlord costs.
- Mamdani’s broader agenda includes lowering building operating costs like insurance through regulation, “ensuring tenants know their rights,” and expanding government-controlled affordable housing.
- Private landlords face unsustainable burdens with no ability to cover expenses or profit, effectively ending incentives for maintenance or new construction.
- Developers are being warned away from building rental units in NYC, accelerating housing shortages and decay under socialist policies.
- The rent freeze is step one in Mamdani’s revolution against free-market principles, prioritizing ideology over practical realities that have long sustained the city’s housing stock.
Read the full story:
https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/opinion/mamdanis-on-a-quest-to-kill-nycs-free-housing-market-the-rent-freeze-is-step-one/
