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Politico reports:
Andrew Cuomo’s latest attempt to dislodge Zohran Mamdani from his commanding position in the race for mayor is focused on his rent-stabilized apartment.
The former governor is seeking to turn Mamdani’s winning cause of affordability against him by questioning why someone with his privilege — a state assemblymember’s salary ($142,000) and filmmaker and professor parents — should occupy a $2,300 rent-stabilized Queens apartment.
Cuomo, desperate for a foothold as an independent candidate after losing by 12 points to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, said Sunday he’s announcing “Zohran’s law” to ensure that affordable housing is reserved for New Yorkers who require it.
Read the full article. Watch the “decoding” video below. As was reported here last month, Cuomo is being backed by a coalition of major New York City developers and landlords who would obviously benefit if hundreds of thousands of renters were to lose rent-stabilization.
Roughly half of all rental units in NYC are rent-stabilized, like the one that Zohran Mamdani lives in. Is Cuomo really proposing that middle class and upper middle class New Yorkers should be barred from 50% of all apartments? https://t.co/fWuRqabmZp
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) August 10, 2025
I am not endorsing any candidates for New York City mayor but I am frustrated by the disinformation Andrew Cuomo has said about rent stabilization. It is not a program for the neediest New Yorkers. Mamdani is not taking an apartment away from a single mother in a homeless shelter pic.twitter.com/hzp5mHhxrJ
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) August 11, 2025
If Zohran’s current income as a NYS Assemblymember is above the threshold Cuomo is talking about here, then me, my wife, and our 2 year old would be evicted under “Zohran’s law.” Evil stuff. https://t.co/sWYxphsboE
— jim shelton (@jimshelton_nyc) August 10, 2025
Cuomo was governor for 10.5 years, and he never proposed such a change to the state-controlled rent-stabilization laws. In fact, he did the exact opposite, in ending vacancy decontrol. This is growing incoherent and silly.https://t.co/6kMDELFaeG pic.twitter.com/a495L3inyJ
— Nicole (@nicolegelinas) August 10, 2025
In what world is a $2,300/month 1 br apartment considered affordable??? Lol certainly not a just one. Who do you propose rent that apartment for that much instead? Your proposal would make housing obtainable by even fewer people, not more.
— Kitty (@district12kitty) August 10, 2025
While I was on the Rent Guidelines Board, landlords sued us. They’ve been working for years to get a case before the Supreme Court to upend rent stabilization entirely—and they were almost successful.
They want Cuomo for a reason. https://t.co/QvKH5TizOX pic.twitter.com/0mv3mrQ17T
— Leah Goodridge (@leahfrombklyn) June 25, 2025
Cuomo uses the term rent control which is not the same program as rent stabilization. Rent control is pretty much dead at this point there’s only a few units left. He was the governor of NY state but he doesn’t seem to know how basic city programs work. https://t.co/IcwWwDrP2v
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) August 10, 2025