This took about 6 years to finally pass.  My opinion is this took about 6 years to pass.  The initial proposals were much more broad in my opinion.


NYC poised to force landlords to sell private property to non-profits to ensure 'affordable housing

 Misleading.  They can keep their private property.  This is an opinion.


The act dictates that landlords must first tip off the government entities and nonprofits that qualify, and “may not take any action that will result in the sale of such covered property to a person other than” those entities

 Antagonistic language without context.  This is an opinion.  COPA does not require below market sale pricing and "covered property" is almost exclusively properties that volunteer for State or Federal assistance or contain hazardous environment violations or a history of violations.  Not entirely but mostly.  The expansion of "future rulemaking" is a concern for property owners that have no assistance or violations however.

 


will force private building owners to offer up their property to nonprofits and government entities before they make any private sale, ..."

"... The act forces landlords to offer their property to the city as well as nonprofits before the building can be sold on the public market.

"
... however, is not the end of the red tape. If there is an offer from the private market submitted after a building owner refused an offer from a nonprofit, the owner must then inform the nonprofit so that the nonprofit can offer a matching price on identical terms of the private offer and has 15 days to do so. ..."

 All means the same thing.  This is an opinion.  File for taxpayer assistance or need taxpayer funding to upgrade your property, you have to offer first chance to buy at market value to the public funded sector.  

 Having been to actual Communist economies I would not call this "full blown" Communism.  This is an opinion.  I definitely see issues with the future rulemaking, and I would prefer only dwellings in violation be qualified and not mostly those dwellings.  

 I also see how it can help mitigate issues like my associate whose property tax went up astronomically because an investment firm bought two properties next to him for millions of dollars.   His home has a market value of 270,000, his taxes per-month are now higher than his mortgage ever was.  So that's also a problem.

 Just the start !
(Above is a opinion)

"...  Mamdani calls for higher taxes on NYC's richest,
says 'we need to disband' NYPD protest unit ..."

(Above is a reprint, not a opinion)

So, protesters can do ANYTHING THEY WANT, throwing rocks, burning buildings, stealing, blocking traffic, etc,etc,etc,etc,

(Above is what WILL happen, buy disbanding the 'NYPD protest unit')

"...New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday announced a new crop of commissioners who will be at the helm of some of the city's most vital departments.

One of the appointments is making city history.
Formerly incarcerated man to lead DOC

Stanley Richards will become the first formerly incarcerated individual to serve as commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction. He was incarcerated back in the 1980s.

"When we see what is best in all of us instead of judging people on the worst thing that they've ever done, we can achieve the unimaginable," Richards said.

He previously served as first deputy commissioner of the DOC and executive vice president of The Fortune Society, a nonprofit that provides assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals...."

Above is a reprint.
Below is a question.

Is a Fox in charge
of the Hen house?

"... NYC’s New Mayor Drives Discussions on American Socialism Among Loyola Students ..."

       (early American socialists like Eugene Debs)
"... Debs was one of the founding members of the Socialist Party of America and ran for president five times. He argued socialism was the way to protect American’s democratic promise by publicly owning and expanding access to essential industries and services, according to Cantwell. ..."

https://loyolaphoenix.com/2026/02/nycs-new-mayor-drives-discussions-on-americ...

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Who in the future who is going to pay for all the Gimmie people.

  (Above is a question)