Legal Insurrection by William A. Jacobson 1/4/2026
We have seen this movie before. Mamdani has identified a class of property owners supposedly ripping off the masses, and now he is targeting them. In the Soviet days they were called Kulaks. In NYC under Mamdani, landlords are the new Kulaks.He’s only been in office for a few days, but NYC Red-Green (Marxist-Islamist) Mayor Zoran Mandami is quickly advancing his agenda. In addition to rescinding prior executive orders against antisemitism, declaring during his inaugural address that collectivism must prevail over individualism, and reacting with fury to Maduro’s capture, Mandami is moving against the landlords.
He announced the initiative on X:
Too many New Yorkers are getting ripped off—paying obscene rents for apartments that fail basic health and safety standards. When tenants speak up, landlords threaten eviction. That ends now. Today we launched a citywide crackdown on rental ripoffs, like landlord neglect and outrageous fees.
We’ll be holding Rental Ripoff hearings in every borough of the city. We’ll be sharing tools to protect tenants from unscrupulous practices and hearing your experiences with abusive landlords. Details to come at:
http://nyc.gov/rentalripoff We’ll be holding Rental Ripoff hearings in every borough of the city.
We’ll be sharing tools to protect tenants from unscrupulous practices and hearing your experiences with abusive landlords.
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/kulaks-beware-mamdani-orders-public-hearings-to-shame-ripoff-nyc-landlords/
