Fierce opposition from Queens homeowners after Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a significant property tax hike.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he may have to raise property tax rates in the city by 9.5% as part of his $122 billion preliminary budget plan
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The nearly 10% increase would impact more than 3 million homeowners across the five boroughs
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Gov. Kathy Hochul said she doesn’t see a need to raise taxes. She also said Mamdani needs to go back to the drawing board<\/p>\n
\u201cYou ran on affordability. This is not affordability. This is actually suicide for us right here in southeast Queens,\u201d Cambria Heights homeowner James Johnson said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Mamdani said he may have to raise property tax rates in the city by 9.5% as part of his $122 billion preliminary budget plan.<\/p>\n
The mayor calls this a \u201clast resort\u201d if he can\u2019t convince Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise income taxes on New Yorkers making $1 million or more per year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe path that we want to pursue is working with Albany to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, the most profitable corporations by a little bit more while ending the drain that has characterized the relationship between the city and the state so that we can balance that budget. If we do not have that state action, then the only tools that the city has at its disposal is a property tax increase. That is not a pursuit that we want to follow through on,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
But Hochul said she doesn\u2019t see a need to raise taxes. She also said Mamdani needs to go back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n
The nearly 10% increase would impact more than 3 million homeowners across the five boroughs, including those in Cambria Heights, a neighborhood that primarily has single-family homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe property taxes will displace us. It\u2019ll push us out. We already have young people moving to North Carolina, to Atlanta, to Houston. This will hurt us. And I just think the mayor could\u2019ve gone about this a different way and we don\u2019t want to be a part of your negotiation tactics,\u201d said Johnson, who organized a rally in the neighborhood Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
The population of Cambria Heights is nearly 90% Black and 20% are senior citizens.<\/p>\n
Residents say longtime homeowners have been forced to leave because of the rising cost of living and gentrification.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York state is horrible for home ownership period. So the fact that we\u2019ve built a Black community in New York state of homeowners is really remarkable and to lose it and to sit back idly while we lose it would be irresponsible of me,\u201d Oster Bryan, who has lived in Cambria Heights for nearly 40 years, said.<\/p>\n
Mamdani said he plans to work with Albany to avoid the property tax increase.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s budget is due by June 30, and any city budget also needs approval by the City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fierce opposition from Queens homeowners after Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a significant property tax hike. What You Need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2908,109,25,2907,9,24,12,63,87,122,124,123,332,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-140468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-app-housing","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news","20":"tag-rebecca-greenberg","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140468","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=140468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}