Cuomo campaigns on raising rent for the average New Yorker
This video From New York town hall candidate, Andrew Cuomo, seemed pathetic at first glance. The former governor in disgrace proposes “Zohran’s law”, who, according to him, “would keep the rich out of the affordable housing of New York”.
He named it after Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist which won the primary Democrat mayor. Sore-loser Cuomo is now in the general elections as an independence.
It is absurd for Cuomo – a schooling of a wealth and politically connected family– To posture as champion of the working class given that as governor, almost all major political movements, he made the richest New Yorkers benefit. Who included support for a rupture group “Democrats” who have been cautious with the Republicans to block progressive legislation.
Cuomo now calls Mamdani “rich”. While Mamdani recognizes a privileged education, its policy focuses on affordable life and the dismantling of billionaire domination. His pre-political work focused on preventing it lose their house. Cuomo’s own non -political curriculum vitae? Banking and work in a real estate company with more $ 5 billion in assets.
So how was it In fact Rich a hole justifying to call Mandami “rich”?
“In an article on X which attracted more than 26 million views, Mr. Cuomo wrote that” a single mother and her children were sleeping in a shelter for homeless “because Mr. Mamdani, a state assembly,` `occupied his renting apartment”, “” “”, “”, “” reported The New York Times. “M. Cuomo accused Mr. Mamdani of being “rich”, stressing that the members of the assembly earn more than $ 140,000 and called him to “move”.
In most of the country, $ 140,000 is comfortable, not rich. But in New York? Average household income is $ 127,894and a 2023 smartassets study noted that $ 100,000 in New York buy the equivalent of $ 35,791 in the average American city. To correspond to the national level of living of $ 100,000, a New York would need $ 312,000However, Cuomo works on the idea that people who earn much less than it is “rich” and should pay more.
New Yorkers know this of course. And I cannot imagine that they would take too kindly to be accused of being “rich” of what is essentially a salary of $ 30,000 in most America.
And these apartments stabilized to rent? They are not social housing and have no income qualification – they simply cap annual rent increases. Mamdani does not block a homeless mother to move in; She couldn’t afford it. Its unit costs $ 2,300 per month. Given that Almost half Apartments in New York are stabilized in rent, Cuomo actually works on a plan to increase rent for a large part of people who make the city’s average income. Even if you thought it was a good policy, it is a professional fault.
This makes the Cuomo terrain even more confusing: instead of promising to reduce costs – as President Donald Trump did it wrongly with his guarantee of “price below the first day”, or Mamdani made with his rent boles, his free buses and their cheaper grocery store – Cuomo tells a huge band of chess that they are not lifting when they are raising their rent.
THE first person To encourage the Cuomo position was right, Trump who loves Trump Conservative Patrick Bet -David – owner of some of the New York Yankees and is worth a $ 500 million estimated.
That is rich.
You don’t see the richest elite like this Mamdani retweeting guy. Cuomo, of course, replied warmly.
