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The following guest blog is from Maliha Safri, Professor of Economics at Drew University, and co-author of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation, an examination of solidarity economies in New York and other... She is a volunteer canvasser for Zohran Mamdani. The views expressed are her own. New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s policies can be enacted using past precedent in the city, as well as contemporary examples from other cities. His policies are not only feasible, but they could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers who face housing precarity (68% of us are renters, with the majority facing crippling... NYC has a history full of amazing and successful municipal projects.

These include a free city public library that debuted in 1911 as ‘the People’s Palace’ on 42nd street and Fifth Ave and the famous City College, which stood from 1847 to well into the... To many it was known by the popular title: Harvard of the Proletariat. The NY City Housing Authority constructed hundreds of thousands of still-standing housing units, one of a spate of programs shaped by public investment in the New Deal. This period saw a range of programs address the housing crisis in the city, including public housing, the Mitchell Lama affordable housing cooperatives, and rent control measures. Amongst many prominent bottom-up and community-led struggles, a community garden network fought and won in the late 1990’s against then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, as he sought to raze these green spaces to the ground only... Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0

In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his campaign with around 1% support. Just six weeks before the June 24 election, his support was only at 11%, while Cuomo led with 49%. Three separate polls, conducted by Yale/YouGov, Marist College, and the Manhattan Institute within two weeks of the election, still showed Cuomo ahead by 12 points or more. Mamdani won the primary as the clear leader with 56% of the votes, totaling 545,334 votes. His campaign claimed that this was “the most votes any Democratic primary candidate has received in 36 years.” Cuomo received 44%, or 428,530 votes.

Although NYC is the largest city in the U.S., this election was not on a national stage. Jared Leopold, a Democratic strategist, summarized it well: “Communicating in a Democratic primary in New York City is very different from communicating in a swing district in Iowa.” For example, the white population makes... Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies are not only feasible, but could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers. And they have past precedent in the city. In a new blog, our guest author, Professor Maliha Safri, appraises five of Mamdani's key policies: 🚪 Rent freeze 🍎 Public groceries 🍼 Childcare 🚌 Free buses 🏗 Affordable housing Read in full ➙... Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to run the biggest city in the United States revolved largely around one simple fact: It costs too much to live in New York. But Mamdani, who will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in more than a century, has attracted a lot of attention for his positions on issues that don’t necessarily seem to... Here’s a look at Mamdani’s sometimes-evolving positions on five key issues. New York City is home to more Jews than any city outside Israel, and so Mamdani made a point on election night to address the Jewish population, saying: And we will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblyman and democratic socialist, defied expectations when he pulled wellahead to presumed victory over former Gov.

Andrew Cuomo in New York City's June 24 Democratic mayoral primary. While there were 11 candidates on the ranked-choice ballot, preliminary polling named Cuomo and Mamdani the front-runners by a large margin. Cuomo frequently polled above Mamdani in the weeks leading up to voting day, but the former governor ultimately ended up calling his opponent on Tuesday night to concede. Mamdani led Cuomo 44% to 36% among first-place votes, with 96% of ballots counted as of around 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25. The Democratic nominee will begin the general election as the favorite in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.

Considered the more progressive candidate of the two, Mamdani's platform has included stances on rent and housing, cost of living, safety, infrastructure and relations between the city and President Donald Trump. Here is a brief look at Mamdani's stance on major city issues, based on his campaign page and reporting from USA TODAY. function arc_editor(el) { $(el).redactor({ minHeight: 200, pasteBlockTags: ['ul', 'ol', 'li', 'p'], pasteInlineTags: ['strong', 'br', 'b', 'em', 'i'], imageUpload: '/redactor/upload', plugins: ['imagemanager'], buttons: ['bold', 'italic', 'lists', 'link', 'image'], callbacks: { imageUpload: function(image, json) { $(image).replaceWith('<p><a... '': suffix; $('#arc_new_comment').hide(); $.ajax( { type: 'GET', url: '/post_comment'+suffix+'/' + (new Date().getTime()) + arc_pathname(document.location.pathname), success: function(data, status, xhr) { $('#arc_new_comment').html(data); $('#arc_new_comment').slideDown(); if(suffix != '_ios') arc_editor_423('body_html'); } }); $(document).on('click', 'a.arc_edit_comment', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); arc_remove_editor_423( 'body_html'... ".All-Comments-Header": "#comments_section"; selector = $(".CommentBanner").length ? ".CommentBanner": selector; $('<div class="Head FeaturedComments"><div class="Right"><a href="#EntryAnchor" class="AnchorScroller">Back to Top &nbsp;↑</a></div><div class="FeaturedCommentMarker"><div class="Ribbon"><h2><span id="featured_comment_counter">1</span> Featured Comment</h2></div><div class="Ribbontip"></div></div></div><div id="featured_comments_section" class="FeaturedCommentsSection"></div>').insertBefore(selector); }else{ var featured_comment_counter = parseInt($("#featured_comment_counter").html()); featured_comment_counter++; $("#featured_comment_counter").parent('h2').html('<span id="featured_comment_counter">' + featured_comment_counter + '<span> Featured Comments'); }...

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Below, we have rounded up five such policies. Mamdani’s securing of both the Democratic nomination and ultimately the mayoral office revolved around his pledges to make housing affordable. Over the next ten years, Mamdani has pledged to triple the city’s production of publicly subsidized, affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes, constructing 200,000 new units in ten years. “This $100 billion commitment over 10 years will once again make New York City a leader in providing homes for families who earn less than $70,000 a year—the median income for renters in New... The November 2025 elections yielded undeniably strong results for the Democratic Party — winning both high-profile gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, successfully passing Prop 50 in California to redraw the state’s congressional... And yet, the most high-profile race of the night was in New York City.

Despite starting at 1% in the polls and facing relentless attacks against his identity as a Muslim and democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani defeated disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, the candidate favored by billionaires and... There’s a common refrain from some pundits to dismiss Mamdani’s victory as a quirk of New York City politics rather than a sign of something bigger. But his campaign paired moral conviction with concrete plans to lower costs and expand access to services, making it unmistakable what he stood for and whom he was fighting for. The lesson isn’t that every candidate should mimic his style — you can’t fake authenticity — but that voters everywhere respond when a candidate connects economic populism to clear, actionable goals. New Data for Progress polling, conducted in the days leading up to the election, shows that populist economic policies like those Mamdani campaigned on in New York City have a strong appeal nationwide, and... We find that many of Mamdani’s policies to lower housing costs are overwhelmingly popular with voters nationwide — including speeding up the approval process to build affordable housing (83%) and penalizing landlords who significantly...

A strong majority of voters also support adding a 2% tax on income over $1 million (72%), raising taxes on corporations (72%), creating new violence de-escalation programs and mental health teams to respond to...

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