Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani hates "gentrification," but the Monarch in Jamaica, Queens, set aside 182 of 605 apartments at below-market rents. NYC Housing Connect

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met last week with real-estate-industry leaders, he said, to discuss “the importance of us reducing the timeline of getting New Yorkers into affordable housing.”

I want New York City housing to be affordable, too. But I want it to be affordable to working- and middle-class people who pay taxes and respect the civic order. I don’t want the municipal treasury milked to provide cozy quarters for the drug-addled and insane who usually (as Mamdani is going to swiftly discover) prefer life on the street.

Unlike Mamdani’s fellow travelers in socialist sophistry — like former City Councilwoman Kristin Richar

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