It\u2019s a first-in-the-nation municipal initiative to push unionization on private-sector workers \u2014 and to launch labor-law investigations of nonunionized workplaces, whether there have been complaints or not.<\/p>\n
Businesses large and small should take a close look at the mayor\u2019s anti-landlord agenda, because a similar playbook is being prepped for them.<\/p>\n
Mamdani unveiled his Block by Block housing initiative<\/a> on May 26, calling it a \u201csweeping blueprint to tackle New York City\u2019s deepening housing crisis.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n But most of the \u201cplan\u201d called for hyper-aggressive code enforcement against \u201cnegligent\u201d property owners.<\/p>\n Weeks later, Hizzoner and his newly created Office of Mass Engagement \u2014 his taxpayer-funded $53 million staff of information ministers<\/a> \u2014 launched his\u00a0\u201cTalk to Tenants\u201d campaign,\u00a0sending armies of Democratic Socialists of America volunteers door to door, mobilizing tenants to organize against their landlords.<\/p>\n Says Office of Mass Engagement head Tascha Van Auken<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cBy knocking on doors and connecting tenants with organizing resources, we\u2019re helping New Yorkers build the collective power to hold negligent landlords accountable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n And elect more Democratic Socialists, of course.<\/p>\n This is the DSA version of Tammany Hall, the political machine that saw Boss Tweed turn the city\u2019s police and fire departments into political armies.<\/p>\n It was illegal then, and it\u2019s still wrong today: Tweed was convicted of stealing taxpayers\u2019 money and died in jail.<\/p>\n In Mamdani\u2019s version, his Office of Mass Engagement is masterminding a torrent of tenant complaints to trigger court action against landlords.\u00a0<\/p>\n In April, Hizzoner\u00a0dressed up as a Housing and Preservation Department inspector<\/a>\u00a0(no kidding) to create a social-media post pushing tenants to call 311 with complaints<\/a> \u2014 legitimate or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cNo issue is too small,\u201d he boasted, suggesting renters could alert the city to issues as minor as a tiny crack in the plaster or a flowerpot in the corner of another tenant\u2019s fire escape.<\/p>\n (Somebody should tell the mayor it\u2019s illegal to call in false complaints, or to encourage others to do so.)<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s dirty tricks are working, legal or not: Complaints are surging compared to last year.<\/p>\n Clogged toilets are up 500<\/a>% \u2014 and not because of\u00a0contaminated lettuce.<\/p>\n When a tenant calls 311, HPD contacts the owner; if it isn\u2019t remedied promptly \u2014 and a flood of complaints will make that harder \u2014 the city sends an inspector who can issue a violation.<\/p>\n Violations trigger court action. That\u2019s the goal.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Hizzoner\u2019s Block by Block housing blueprint states, \u201cWe will take aggressive legal action\u00a0to remove negligent owners and property managers\u201d and transfer ownership to \u201cresponsible stewards.\u201d `<\/p>\n In other words, outright confiscation, violating the Takings Clause of the Constitution\u2019s Fifth Amendment.<\/p>\n On Aug. 30 Mamdani\u00a0announced\u00a0his new Housing Court Fast Track<\/a>, expediting court access for tenants only, not for landlords.\u00a0<\/p>\n This one-sided access violates landlords\u2019 due-process rights, as well as their constitutional right to equal protection under the law.<\/p>\n
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Mamdani unveiled his Block by Block housing initiative on May 26, calling it a \u201csweeping blueprint to tackle New York City\u2019s deepening housing crisis.\u201d \u00a0But most of the \u201cplan\u201d called for hyper-aggressive code enforcement against \u201cnegligent\u201d property owners. MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n