{"id":184472,"date":"2026-04-03T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:07:06","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-wants-to-crack-down-on-bad-landlords-first-he-has-to-find-them-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184472\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to crack down on &#8216;bad landlords.&#8217; First he has to find them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QEJUAMWSR5HT3A3S6IOL5SIIAI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 On a recent weeknight, three tenants of an aging Bronx building were trading apartment horror stories inside a packed ballroom lined with city bureaucrats.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HJOJEOJQKZBHDAO4LZX7PGKNUU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The occasion was the third in a series of \u201crental rip-off hearings,\u201d a new forum launched by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/zohran-mamdani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> for disgruntled renters to air their complaints directly to housing officials \u2014 and in some cases, the mayor himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 On a recent weeknight, three tenants of an aging Bronx building were trading apartment horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,54670,417,10391,9,56,63,65,64,87,797,421,74215,74178],"class_list":{"0":"post-184472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cockroaches","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-inc","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-theft","19":"tag-u-s-news","20":"tag-us-mamdani-landlords","21":"tag-verizon-communications"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184472","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=184472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}