While reasonable ppl can debate the design/efficacy of residential rent control, there’s a clear social interest in ensure housing stability for people. It‘s not at all clear to me there's a social interest in ensuring stability of tenure for businesses. therealdeal.com/policy-pro/n…

So turns out when people said these shops wouldn't work it's because megacorps would cry about having to fairly compete with them.

Mamdani: Whenever I talk about raising taxes on the wealthiest, people will respond with what is generally a myth of capital flight. But the flight that has actually happened: 200,000 Black New Yorkers have left this city in the last few decades. There are so many people who will still tell you they’re New Yorkers, but now they live in South Carolina, they live in other parts of the country because they couldn’t afford to live in this city. And you can feel that in neighborhoods across this city, you can feel that in classrooms across the city. And so for me, it’s always ask yourself: How has this city left people behind, and how can we actually start to show up?

My base case: He won’t oppose a vacancy reset bill in Albany in 2027, warehoused units will come back on the market, growth in asking rents will slow down or possibly even go into reverse (for a time). He and the echo chamber will downplay the reset and claim that his policies have been vindicated. Though it’s possible he and his allies will be foolish enough to aggressively oppose a vacancy reset, I suspect they’re too politically shrewd and reality-based to do that. The real game is to continue the conquest of the Democrats and build momentum for more independent “prairie populists” in red states.

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