NYC Plans to Seize and Redistribute Housing
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just announced a plan for housing in the big city. He wants to seize properties from negligent landlords, then redistribute them to tenants, nonprofits, or community land trusts in an attempt to reduce housing costs.
We’ll discuss this topic and others in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Crossroads. New York City Mayor Zora Mamdami has a big plan for housing, not building more housing, |
| 0:08.2 | seizing housing. He wants to seize properties from negligent landlords and then redistribute these, |
| 0:15.1 | mostly to like, you know, nonprofits and such, in an attempt to actually cut housing costs. Will it work? |
| 0:21.8 | We shall find out. |
| 0:26.7 | Meanwhile, we're getting a clear picture on the open border policies under the previous administration and the sheer scale of it all. Turns out nearly 90% of illegal immigrants were actually released on parole, |
| 0:35.0 | which by the way gives them access to different types of social benefits like welfare. |
| 0:39.4 | Another topic, also, there's a new scam getting uncovered. |
| 0:42.2 | Apparently, food meant for poor American families is being shipped and then sold in other |
| 0:48.5 | countries. |
| 0:49.7 | Now, we're talking about these topics and a lot more today, so hit the like button. |
| 0:53.3 | Make sure you leave a comment. |
| 0:54.4 | Let me know what you think. And also, please don't forget to share this episode. That said, |
| 0:59.4 | good old New York, they say they're going to do socialism right this time. They said, you know, |
| 1:03.9 | it wasn't real socialism before, never been tried. They're going to do it right this time by doing |
| 1:10.4 | the same thing. They didn't |
| 1:11.8 | work before. New York City Mayor Zoram-Dami just announced a plan for housing in the big city, |
| 1:18.1 | and he wants to seize people's properties from negligent landlords and such, and then redistribute |
| 1:24.2 | them in an attempt to cut housing costs. Town Hall says this. |
| 1:28.4 | It says New York City Mayor, Mayor Zoran Mamdami kicked off his plan to fix the city's |
| 1:33.6 | affordability crisis with his official housing policy agenda, titled Block by Block, |
| 1:40.5 | under which one of the first priorities is to allow the government to seize property from owners deemed negligent and redistributed to so-called responsible stewards, a category that includes anyone from land trusts, non-profits, or even tenants themselves, giving it to the people, right? |
| 2:02.8 | And Man Dom Dombie announced this, quote, |
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