Zohran Mamdani Talks Big on His Rent-Freeze Promise — but He Can’t Legally Keep It

Last week, at a candidates’ forum for New York City’s mayoral contenders, a questioner asked frontrunner Zohran Mamdani whether his signature plan to freeze rents would survive legal scrutiny.

He refused to answer.

In fact, the word-salad response from the 33-year-old political wunderkind undercut his own arguments for his most celebrated campaign promise.

First, Mamdani laid out his stump-speech condemnations of rapacious landlords’ ever-increasing profits.

Then he turned on a dime: “To freeze the rent,” he said, “does not also preclude you from working on the necessity of a property tax reform agenda that is currently part of the reason why it’s so difficult to maintain rental housing across the city.”

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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John Ketcham is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Christian Browne is an attorney. Views expressed are those of the authors and not their employers.

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