“Tenants are a majority, it’s time we had a mayor who acted like it,” says Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race. When Mamdani says it, believe him. If he wins, tenants will be favored, and homeowners will be in his crosshairs. They already are. Mamdani is vowing to fully enforce Local Law 97, a law that clobbers condo and co-op owners with costly mandates to reduce their building’s carbon emissions at their own expense.

If Mamdani wins, middle- and working-class people who saved and bought a co-op or condo in a high-rise complex will be facing huge cost increases. More than a million New Yorkers –cops, teachers, accountants, retirees — own the 832,000 units impacted by Local Law 97, and many will suddenly be faced with budget-breaking costs.

The law was passe

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