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[–] 6 points 4 months ago

No one should own more than their own home. Fucking scumbag leech.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Getting shit done for the people. What a bastard.

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    [–] 45 points 4 months ago*

    Some important reasons for the missing back rent:

    Many tenants began withholding rent because they had been dealing for years with unsafe conditions, while others fell behind because they could not afford their monthly payments, according to the tenant union. They may now get a blank slate.

    Kuo said tenants dealt with a range of problems in their buildings including caved-in ceilings, heat outages and, at times, darkened hallways after Con Edison cut the common area electricity due to the landlord’s unpaid bills.

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Fuck these people. They have to be forced to do the right thing. We should be voting to tax the wealth of these fucks.

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  • [–] 67 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    One guy owns enough dwelling for 5000 people.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Is there only one person per apartment?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I mean.....it is in mine. Although I'm not in NYC.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You're also not 5000 different people

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm a million different people from one day to the next.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Would any of you like to go on a date? ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago

    A landlord with 5100 units? Yikes

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    i love how much he's been able to do with housing; now just keep holding his feet to the fire to also not turn his back on trans kids by caving to the federal governments threats too.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Don't fuck with Zohran the Destroyer!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The company Summit Properties purchased the 93-building [rent-stabilized] portfolio in March after its previous owner Pinnacle Group went bankrupt

    A surprising amount of people don’t realize that the most prevalent landlords by ownership are companies

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeaaaaahhhhhh... unfortunately anything less than "Mamdani publicly executes Slumlord exploiting tenants for profit to set example to others" is not uplifting news, just more Hurray for Minor Inconveniencing the Orphan Crushing Machine

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Which specific employees and/or officers of Pinnacle Group and/or Summit Properties should be summarily executed by the mayor of the city, in your opinion?

    Should he execute the CEOs? The entire C-Suites? The Boards of Directors? The property managers? The maintenance staff? Anyone who has any stock or any other form of equity in either company since they're technically the ones paying everyone from the CEO down to the most junior employee to do this? Just how much of a bloodbath do you think Zohran Mamdani should personally carry out? How much carnage do you need an elected official to unilaterally enact before you feel "uplifted?"

    Or did you expect the Slumlord to be a single individual with a twirly black moustache and a villainous laugh?

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    [–] 96 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    In my view, the scenario shouldn’t even be able to arise where that is possible.

    That landlord is managing as many households as a medieval noble, without any of the associated social responsibilities.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago

    "Kuo said tenants dealt with a range of problems in their buildings including caved-in ceilings, heat outages and, at times, darkened hallways after Con Edison cut the common area electricity due to the landlord’s unpaid bills."

    All that money and won't even pay the electric company this person is actually unwell seriously.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    And every MAGAt in a trailer making minimum wage will fight you to the death that the free market will solve this, changing anything will prevent the American entrepreneurial spirit and regulations will only make things worse.

    Brainwashing is amazing.

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Say about Mamdani what you will. But he gets shit done. That's not his first win and more will follow I bet.

    Imagine all politicians would only be half like that....

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  • It's almost like all the modern problems in society are manufactured, hmm...

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Many other owners of rent-stabilized housing across New York City are stuck with onerous debt after they took out hefty loans to purchase buildings, lift apartments out of the rent-stabilization system and raise rents. New tenant protections laws made many of those tactics illegal in 2019, upending their business model.

    That’s a friendly way to describe a set of practices that are predatory and toxic to both society at large and the neighborhoods these lowlifes operate in.

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  • [–] 74 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    no single landlord should have control over that many units

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    A Gothamist review of court records shows at least 84 separate limited liability companies linked to Pinnacle filed at least 2,569 nonpayment eviction lawsuits in the five years between April 2021 and April of this year, when Summit took control.

    The monkey paw has granted your wish!

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    [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    Mamdani isn't really Left! He hasn't disbanded the NYPD yet!

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago

    Move over trickle-down economics, it’s time for piñata economics

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    And all the shit is getting fixed, right? Right?

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