Mamdani is going after small homeowners: Vickie Paladino | Sunday Report

Ajouté : 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]He's threatening the landlords. He's putting them on notice, suggesting that if they don't get their building into a livable condition, well, the city's going to repo their building and turn it over to the community, privately owned businesses. So, you could argue that the worst landlord in the city itself is the city. The city, its public housing is backlogged right now with more than 600,000 requests for maintenance. Let that sink in. The city is its own worst landlord. New York City Counciloman Vicky Paladino is here to discuss. Uh, this is what the mayor said last week.

[00:00:30]Let's play this for our August.

[00:00:33]>> Focus on the worst landlords in New York City. When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers.

[00:00:41]And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.

[00:00:55]>> So, the city did that. There was one building, $28 million in fines and taxes that were overdue and they actually went and repailed the building and they gave it to a nonprofit which is what he's referring to there. But Vicki, you have been raising the red flag on this since this campaign even started. What do you expect is coming next.

[00:01:13]>> Uh the reality uh John, this is really uh exactly like you say, this is exactly what he campaigned on, you know, when he appointed C. Weaver. And who is C Weaver for those who do not know.

[00:01:26]>> Oh, don't worry. I got a sound bite coming of her here.

[00:01:28]>> Oh, very good. I can't wait to see that.

[00:01:30]But anyway, uh stay on on point. Uh what they plan to do here is weaponize the building department and they are going to go uh out after small uh building owners as well as and that could be a two family, three family house as far as a very large building. You brought up a good point about Nicha. NICHA over $800,000 worth of fines against and they are the city government run which is what they want to do right >> so um you know we went after this guy tooth and nail about this plan that he has he has given full control or will be giving full control over to C weaver and to she by the way for those who don't know have a one she owns her parents own a $1.8 8 million property in uh in Tennessee. But here's the other thing.

[00:02:26]>> Yeah.

[00:02:26]>> She has come out firmly against white people.

[00:02:30]>> Yes.

[00:02:30]>> And it's a targeted attack on white people and her tweets reflected that.

[00:02:36]And uh we This is what's going on. Uh we're going to see Go ahead, John. Take it away.

[00:02:42]>> I was just gonna say for our audience, we're talking to the CIA Weaver. I'm gonna play the sound bite that you're referring to. She says that property ownership is racist. watch.

[00:02:50]>> Correct.

[00:02:51]>> For centuries, we've really treated um property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to tr and transitioning to treating it as um a collective good. And it will mean that um families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, um are going to have a different relationship to property than than than the one that we currently have. So, so she's in charge of the tenant committee or whatever it is. Uh, but she's overseeing all of this that that Sia Weaver. Now, that is from a few years ago. But I do want to get to the point on this that you've got the public housing here that they could look to first. Why not solve that first?

[00:03:34]Instead, they're going to go after private ownership. That's who they're targeting. Why not look to fix the current problem first before you go after all these individuals that own buildings?

[00:03:44]>> Well, let's understand. He doesn't care.

[00:03:46]uh let's understand what his agenda is.

[00:03:49]He's a communist and this is what communism does. They don't Now he he threw out a little crumb this week saying that next budget 27's budget, 28's budget rather, he's going to take a few billion and he's going to throw it towards NICHA. That's not the answer.

[00:04:07]We've got a we got a Marxist in power here. Everybody that surrounds him is a communist. And and I don't like to keep it that simplistic because the nonforprofits are going to get hold of this. They're gonna This is huge. They are going to own a a multi-billion dollar multi-billion dollar real estate uh portfolio for the city of New York.

[00:04:32]>> Does everybody get that?

[00:04:34]>> Yeah.

[00:04:34]>> And if you don't get it, you better wake up and start to get it because the fines are going to start immediately. as soon as he could get this passed through. And let me tell you, John, the only thing that's going to help this is a court case.

[00:04:48]>> And I want to know where my city council sits on this. You know, there's 50 other members besides me, >> right? And that that would be the other question. I mean, illegally, can he do this? And and do you anticipate there will be push back on this and maybe hold it up in the courts?

[00:05:03]>> Well, I would hope so. You know, let's also talk about COPA. Copa they brought out earlier in the year in city council.

[00:05:10]that was is initiated by uh that was prime sponsored by Sandy Nurse, one of my colleagues. And COPA was basically this only worded a little bit different.

[00:05:22]They put that on the shelf >> and made everybody think like COP went away. Oh, no, no, no. They renamed it block by block.

[00:05:32]>> This is terrifying stuff. I it it's certainly scary and and I think that by you raising the red flag here is certainly hopefully will alert some people as to what's happening. Uh Councilwoman Pal, thank you so much. I appreciate you coming on and and uh shedding that light as to >> the warmth of collectivism. Do you feel it?

[00:05:49]>> I feel it. It's warm in here today.

[00:05:51]>> I feel it. Okay. Thanks, John.

[00:05:53]>> Thanks, Vic.