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Holdout tenants and leftwing democratic socialists are clashing with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and pro-housing advocates, writes Elizabeth Kim for Gothamist. The fight is over Mamdani's plan to redevelop a NYCHA complex in Chelsea, which would replace about 2,000 units of public housing with private developers’ mixed-income housing.
Some tenant activists and DSA members argue that Mamdani's move to privatize public housing goes against socialist values. “The escalating conflict has created uncomfortable optics for the mayor. The newly minted DSA members accuse Mamdani, who campaigned as a champion of working class New Yorkers fighting wealthy interests, of abandoning his values,” Gothamist reports.
Mandami, along with other DSA members in his administration, argues that the Chelsea complex is in such bad condition that spending $1.2 billion to tear it down will be cheaper than renovating it.
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