The proposal is an attempt to seize momentum on one of the campaign’s top issues — the housing crisis — and could affect nearly one million homes, or about 40 percent of the city’s rental market.

It’s also part of a continuing attack on the front-runner in the race, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who pays $2,300 a month for a rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens.

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    "It’s also part of a continuing attack on the front-runner in the race, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who pays $2,300 a month for a rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens.

    Mr. Cuomo has said that Mr. Mamdani, who earns $142,000 a year as a lawmaker, should give up his apartment so a homeless family can move in."

    So he wants an entire family living in a 1 bedroom? 🤔 Homeless families can afford $2,300 for rent?

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    Means testing kills socialist programs. Thats why its insisted upon.

    Universal socialist programs work. Means tested programs don’t.

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    All apartments should be rented stabilized. Any of that aren’t, the landlord should have to pay 50% of the rent as a tax to the city.

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      I know a landlord in a longtime rent stabilized area who would happily pay 50% to the city if he could charge market rates. Some long term tenants are paying a small fraction of the true market rates

      Rent control is bad public policy because it makes new tenants subsidize the ones who have lived there longer.

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    Fucker wants to mimic Houston, that just kicked 17,000 people off the housing waiting list for similar reasons with the approval of fascists