These Big Apple landlords are turning red.
Homeowners whose families have fled communist-run countries have slammed New York Democrats for supporting radical housing laws they say would make Mao Zedong proud.
As the state budget fight begins, some Albany Democrats are pushing The law includes the provision of eviction for “just cause,” which prohibits landlords from evicting tenants, except for violations of the rental agreement such as nonpayment of rent.
The measure, first introduced in 2019, effectively increases rent increases by forcing landlords to go to Housing Court to justify increases of more than 3% a year, or 1.5 times the rate of inflation. It sets an upper limit on
“My parents fled communism, and now New York is becoming communist. What’s the point of coming here?” Benjamin Louie, 39, a Sheepshead Bay landowner, told the Post. .
Mr. Lui, who was born in Brooklyn in the 1980s after his family fled the “impoverished” city of Guangzhou, China, said the 79 Democratic state lawmakers who signed the bill are “showing their true colors.”
“They are corrupt to the core,” he said. “It’s already difficult to evict tenants. Now they’re making it even harder.”
Among those leading the fight for tenant-friendly housing policies is the bill’s lead sponsor, Sen. Julia Salazar, a self-proclaimed Marxist state senator. Senator Jabari Brisportsimilarly Socialist MP Emily Gallagherhe recently flew to Austria on a paid trip to learn about the country’s heavily subsidized public housing program.
One of the loudest cheerleaders is the advocacy group Housing Justice For All. receive financial support It comes from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and counts the Young Communist League of New York as an “active partner” in its organizing.
“What we’re seeing now is that there are socialists within the Democratic Party, and now their communist allies are trying to take them away.” [our] ” said Valentina Gojikai, a Bronx landlord.
“Property ownership is at the core of our ethnicity. We have always been told that if you have land, at least you have something to eat,” said Gojikai, 57. “Here in the United States, that fundamental belief is being shattered.”
Ed Yau, 46, whose parents fled China during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution from the mid-1940s to the 1950s, said he had lost “a great deal of faith” in the New York Democratic Party, which continues to promote “the cause.” He said he believes that this will lead to further promotion. Landlords remove affordable housing stock from the market.
“The far left has these ideas about affordable housing, but we need rational solutions,” Yau said, adding that they are currently evicting tenants who have rented out their apartments without paying rent for three years. He said he was having a hard time getting him to leave. He set fire to his property at Airbnb.
He added that if lawmakers “make it impossible to evict bad tenants, there will be less housing stock available.”
