Surprise! Mamdani Is Governing Like a Socialist

Surprise! Mamdani Is Governing Like a Socialist

Mamdani promised a rent freeze for starters and much more government intervention into private housing markets, and his first step was to hire Cea Weaver as his director of the Office to Protect Tenants, who wrote that home ownership was “racist” and a “weapon of white supremacy” as his front-line official in housing.