{"id":124920,"date":"2026-02-06T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124920\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:20:10","slug":"massive-heat-and-hot-water-failures-are-the-mamdani-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124920\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive heat and hot-water failures ARE the Mamdani plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of New York renters are shivering as their decrepit buildings\u2019 heating systems wheeze and shudder against this brutal cold wave \u2014 suffering that\u2019s likely to grow even worse in the coming years thanks to the left\u2019s war on affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>With 80,000 calls in January alone, heat-related complaints to 311 are breaking records, a clear sign that \u201creforms\u201d of the last few years are starting to destroy the city\u2019s housing stock.<\/p>\n<p>That is, the long drive <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/12\/opinion\/zohran-mamdani-cant-keep-his-big-rent-freeze-promise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">toward \u201cfreezing\u201d the rent<\/a> really means freezing basic maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s years of zero rent hikes and followed by the 2019 state law greatly restricting rent-stabilized landlords ability to increase their buildings\u2019 incomes, and with Mamdan\u2019s vow to again ban any hikes in the city\u2019s million regulated rents, the cash to keep the heat and hot water running for these units <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/13\/opinion\/letting-nyc-landlords-cover-costs-is-common-sense-and-mamdanis-plan-will-only-worsen-renting-madness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is running out<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Top Mamdani adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/11\/opinion\/cea-weavers-ghoulish-beliefs-anatomy-of-a-far-left-cult-and-other-commentary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cea Weaver openly expects<\/a> this to bring what she calls a \u201ccapital strike\u201d: Landlords squeezed by static revenue and rising costs \u2014 taxes, fuel, insurance and labor \u2014 will find they have no choice but to defer maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>That means more boiler problems, more leaks, more crumbling facades and less cleaning; Weaver\u2019s goal is to make conditions unlivable so Team Mamdani can seize buildings from \u201cslumlords,\u201d and convert them to \u201csocial housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>(How will they fund the massive repairs then needed, let alone make the buildings\u2019 incomes match their expenses? They\u2019ll burn that bridge when they come to it!) <\/p>\n<p>Tenants just have to suffer in the meantime, involuntarily doing their part for the socialist \u201ctransformation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make an omelette without breaking eggs, one infamous socialist loved to say \u2014 but it\u2019s awfully hard on the eggs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of New York renters are shivering as their decrepit buildings\u2019 heating systems wheeze and shudder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[304,24225,2954,9,24,63,299,122,124,123,564,566,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-124920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-landlord-tenant-disputes","10":"tag-landlords","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-rent","19":"tag-rent-stabilization","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}