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Bill de Blasio: 'We Will Seize Their Buildings...' (trunc)
Reason ^ | January 10, 2019 | Joe Setyon

Posted on 01/12/2019 4:47:31 PM PST by Twotone

Fresh off proposing yesterday that private employers be required to provide their workers with 10 days of paid vacation, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio set his sights on a new target: property owners.

During his State of the City Address, delivered Thursday, de Blasio warned that the city will take action against landlord abuse, even if that means seizing private property.

"When a landlord tries to push out a tenant by making their home unlivable, a team of inspectors and law enforcement agents will be on the ground in time to stop it," the mayor said. If fines and penalties don't do the trick, then "we will seize their buildings, and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve," he added.

But surely city officials won't have the time to find and punish each one of the city's bad landlords, right? Wrong. That's because de Blasio is creating a new agency devoted solely to landlord abuse: the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.

"The city's worst landlords will have a new sheriff to fear," de Blasio said, calling the new agency (which he created on the spot by signing an executive order) a "new arm of city government that will root out the worst landlord abuse."

As the New York Daily News notes, the city already has an Office of Tenant Advocate. However, it has not yet been funded, according to the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council.

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billdeblasio; landlord; nyc; propertyrights
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Full title: Bill de Blasio: 'We Will Seize Their Buildings, and We Will Put Them in the Hands of a Community Nonprofit'
1 posted on 01/12/2019 4:47:31 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

His subjects deserve their nightmare.


2 posted on 01/12/2019 4:49:46 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Twotone

The Great and Powerful Julius Seizer.


3 posted on 01/12/2019 4:51:42 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Twotone

Sandinista De Blasio committed a crime under USC18; sec. 242. He should be thrown in jail. He can also be sued under 8: 242 (I think(.


4 posted on 01/12/2019 4:51:45 PM PST by Stepan12 (potus)
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To: Twotone

If I were proposing such actions, I would go the extra mile and have ‘Activists Tenants’ to speed up the process.


5 posted on 01/12/2019 4:51:51 PM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Twotone

They voted for him and and Hilliarily!


6 posted on 01/12/2019 4:51:58 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Liberals/Democrats/GOPe's 2019 Strategy, mantra, plan = 'No Borders, No Walls, No USA at All!')
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To: Twotone

Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.

http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html


7 posted on 01/12/2019 4:52:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats decide only elections they win are valid.)
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To: The Toll

I am so glad I saw NY in the rear view mirror 30 years ago.


8 posted on 01/12/2019 4:52:40 PM PST by Bitman
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To: The Toll

“...even if that means seizing private property.”

DO IT!


9 posted on 01/12/2019 4:54:05 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bitman

I lived there briefly for a job. Left in 96. Still grateful every day.


10 posted on 01/12/2019 4:55:21 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Twotone

A city built up by capitalism to be pulled down by communism.


11 posted on 01/12/2019 4:55:53 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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He's the type of POS that needs to be Pinochet'd.

That's my new verb. We need to go there... soon. Sick of these people ruining everything that's good.

If we don't start doing something about these people, we will lose all that's good in America.

12 posted on 01/12/2019 4:55:56 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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13 posted on 01/12/2019 4:56:11 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bitman

14 posted on 01/12/2019 4:57:53 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Twotone

If I were Wall Street I would be getting really worried about now.


15 posted on 01/12/2019 4:58:35 PM PST by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
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To: Twotone

NYShitty continues to turn into a leftist, socialist, commie, anarchist sewer. Glad I left Midtown in 1989, after 11yrs, and NJ for 12yrs, and moved to PA.


16 posted on 01/12/2019 4:58:41 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Bitman
I am so glad I saw NY in the rear view mirror 30 years ago.

When you see NYC in the rear view mirror, you know you’re headed in the right direction.

17 posted on 01/12/2019 4:59:11 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Twotone

Bill de Commio


18 posted on 01/12/2019 5:00:38 PM PST by EdnaMode
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Combine rent control with the inability to evict delinquent or disruptive tenants and soon it becomes impossible to maintain properties especially in marginal areas. NYC has benefitted immensely from suburban millennials who have moved to the city, shared apartments and paid huge rents that have allowed landlords to maintain really old buildings. That is ending. Comrade Bill may soon find he will have many decrepit buildings that landlords cannot profitably maintain and soon they will come to resemble the current dysfunctional public housing that the government now owns. Socialism in action. It will fail. De Blasio will of course blame banks, capitalists, Republicans the Catholic church and whoever else he imagines.


19 posted on 01/12/2019 5:02:34 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: windsorknot

Just don’t go 227 miles southwest of you end up in Washington DC. Out of the pan and into the fire.


20 posted on 01/12/2019 5:03:31 PM PST by Bitman
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