Bill de Blasio: 'We Will Seize Their Buildings...' (trunc)

Reason ^ | January 10, 2019 | Joe Setyon

[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.

[2nd amendment mama]

Beat you....left in 1974!!!

[Bonemaker]

"He's the type of POS that needs to be Pinochet'd."

Ceaucescue'd...

[GreyFriar]

A true follower of Lenin and Stalin.

[Bitman]

I left in 74 too but was stupid. I returned.

[struggle]

Narrator: ...and thus the exodus to Florida began

[blueplum]

King Bluster

[captain_dave]

This is right out of Atlas Shrugged.

[TLI]

During his State of the City Address

State of the City Address?

seize their buildings, and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit

Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.

This one is getting delusional, he cant just make up laws and snatch property.

The local property owners that have a a bit of "ways and means" will put a few coins together to "convince" him to knock it off. .

[mewzilla]

Voted for him, from 2017.....

8.5% of New Yorkers voted for de Blasio. Is that a mandate?

So did people stay home...or did votes disappear?

[rfp1234]

[Halgr]

I’m coming to the conclusion that the only remaining solution for America is CIVIL WAR.

But those on the right don’t have the balls to take up arms

SO....America as we know it, in a few years will cease to be. The Marxist win.

[Rapscallion]

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. Blasio warned that the city will take action against landlord abuse, even if that means seizing private property.

There is a lesson here. When you do not obey socialist governemt, it turns coercive fast and it has the power of the state and the court behind it.

[rockinqsranch]

.....”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.”

Quite illegal, but Democrats such as De Blasio don’t give a damn about such things.

Curious too IF those tenants deserving of so much respect show any such to the property owners.

[Ann Archy]

New York....the New Venezuala!

[Diogenesis]

victims STABBED and RAPED in nyc are laughed
at by the perps. laughed at because the police
do NOTHING. even at the stations.

NOTHING.

[Ann Archy]

Beat you ALL....I MOVED to NYC and left after 4 DAYS!! I spent $1000.00 (this was the late 60’s) and got NOTHING except food and taxis!!

[SuperLuminal]

Yawn... They voted for him... They can live with him and keep their collective yaps shut...

[Bitman]

So you got a slice of pizza and a ride around the airport in a cab. Its easy to spend 1k in NY.

[Retvet]

Just went from socialist to communist! Smile New Yorkers you elected him.

[EinNYC]

This guy has really gone off the deep end this time. Seizing peoples’ property, redistributing peoples’ wealth-—where does it end? He is tossing aside any pretense of being a mainstream normal politician and going full commie. I didn’t vote for this turd in any election, and I’m trying to move out of NY, to be rid of him, Schumer, Cuomo, and the insane city council.