{"id":11780,"date":"2026-02-18T10:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/oped-mamdanis-new-tax-plan-will-drive-higher-rents-across-new-york-city-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:38:39","slug":"oped-mamdanis-new-tax-plan-will-drive-higher-rents-across-new-york-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/oped-mamdanis-new-tax-plan-will-drive-higher-rents-across-new-york-city-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OpEd: Mamdani\u2019s New Tax Plan Will Drive Higher Rents Across New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;\"><strong><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">By Sam J., Two-Family Homeowner, East New York<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">New Yorkers were promised affordability. What we\u2019re getting instead, less than two months into Mayor Mamdani\u2019s tenure, is a fast track to higher rents, higher costs, and a deeper squeeze on the very neighborhoods politicians claim to protect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">The mayor\u2019s proposal to raise property taxes on all homeowners to close a $5 billion deficit, unless Albany raises taxes on \u201cthe rich,\u201d a definition that conveniently remains undefined, is not a progressive solution. It\u2019s a shell game. And the bill will land squarely on tenants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">Let\u2019s be clear about how this works in the real world. When property taxes go up, small homeowners don\u2019t absorb the hit out of thin air. We pass it on, or we lose our homes. In a city where most rental housing is provided by small landlords\u2014people like me with a two-family house, higher property taxes guarantee rent increases across the city. There\u2019s no mystery here. It\u2019s math.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">Now add the second punch: energy costs. Heat, electricity, insurance, maintenance\u2014everything is already more expensive. Stack a citywide property-tax hike on top of that, and the outcome is obvious. Rents go up. Repairs get deferred. Fewer homeowners can hang on. More small buildings end up in distress or sold off to larger investors who raise rents even faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">This is the uncomfortable truth no one in City Hall wants to say out loud: policies branded as \u201cprogressive\u201d or \u201cDSA-inspired\u201d often make daily life more expensive for working- and middle-class New Yorkers. They sound good on a podium. They fail on a block.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">We were sold the idea that these leaders had better answers to affordability\u2014that they understood the city\u2019s housing ecosystem better than everyone else. Yet right out of the gate, the first big idea on the table is to tax everyone more, hope Albany steps in, and cross fingers that renters don\u2019t feel the impact. That\u2019s not leadership. That\u2019s magical thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">I live in East New York. I\u2019m not a developer. I\u2019m not a hedge fund. I\u2019m a homeowner trying to keep my building safe, warm, and affordable for the families who live there\u2014while holding onto the only asset I\u2019ll ever have. When City Hall treats me like a bottomless wallet, it doesn\u2019t punish the \u201crich.\u201d It destabilizes neighborhoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">If the goal is affordability, you don\u2019t start by increasing the cost of housing at the foundation. You don\u2019t gamble with vague definitions and wishful revenue. And you don\u2019t pretend that raising property taxes won\u2019t ripple through every rent bill in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;\">New Yorkers deserve honesty. Raising property taxes on all homeowners will raise rents. Full stop. If this is the opening act of a new administration, then the warning signs are already flashing red and it hasn\u2019t even been two months.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam J., Two-Family Homeowner, East New York New Yorkers were promised affordability. What we\u2019re getting instead, less than two months into Mayor Mamdani\u2019s tenure, is a fast track to higher rents, higher costs, and a deeper squeeze on the very neighborhoods politicians claim to protect. 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