Mamdani’s NYC Is Seizing 9,000 Apartments. Here's Who Actually Loses Everything.

A Haitian immigrant spent 38 years paying off a building in Brooklyn. One day he went to pay his water bill — and discovered the city had quietly signed his deed over to a developer three years earlier. He got nothing. That program was shut down in 2019 after courts ruled it unconstitutional and found it disproportionately stripped Black and Latino families of generational wealth. Now NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to bring it back — and this time with a $53 million political organizing office behind it. In this video, I break down: → What Mamdani's "Block by Block" seizure plan actually does → The real history of New York's Third Party Transfer program — and who it actually hurt → The 26,000 number the city doesn't want you to see → How the rent freeze and seizure program work together as a trap for small landlords → Who actually gets the buildings when the city takes them → Why a 2023 Supreme Court ruling may make this whole plan unconstitutional This isn't about bad landlords. It's about who pays the price when government decides it knows better — and it's never the billionaires.