On Friday, Hot Air posted an article about the strategy being used by New York City Mayor Mamdani to change private apartment buildings to publicly owned apartment buildings. The strategy is actually very simple.

The article quotes Councilwoman Vicki Paladino:

Step 1: ‘Organize’ tenants to file dozens and dozens of complaints with the building department to establish cause for investigation.

Step 2: Squeeze these same landlords with massive compounding fines they will not be able to get out from under. Use rent strikes and rent control laws to limit income, making compliance with tenant complaints financially impossible.

Step 3: Use the outstanding debt with the city resulting from the fines and noncompliance as leverage with mortgage and bankruptcy courts to have the buildings turned over to the city and/or designated nonprofits at fire sale prices.

That’s how private property will be stripped from owners, and how politically-favored activist nonprofits will become the new land barons of NYC.

They will do this on increasingly small properties, and eventually even to private homeowners who rent an upstairs or basement apartment.

And once they take over these properties, they will be left to rot, just like NYCHA is. That’s the future the marxists want for us. It’s just plain evil.

This sounds like a bad dream. Unfortunately, it is reality. Unless New Yorkers wake up quickly and impeach (is that possible in New York City?) Mayor Mamdani, they may not like their future. Living conditions in socialist countries where the state owns the property are well below the standard of living Americans are accustomed to. Residents may get lower rents, but they will also get poorly maintained buildings.

It should also be noted that the level of discontent after all of Mamdani’s policies are enacted is going to be very high. High levels of discontent often lead to high crime rates. I would strongly suggest that anyone who considers voting or votes for a socialist be given an airplane ticket and required to spend a month in a socialist country. That may be the only way to educate people.