Mamdani: We Must ‘Buy Up Private Housing’ to Convert into Communes

by Olivia Rondeau

Zohran Mamdani, the openly socialist Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City, proposed buying up private properties to “convert” them into communes in a 2021 instructional video for the far-left Gravel Institute.

The New York state assemblyman, who beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democrat primary last week, argued that the solution to “America’s housing crisis” is getting the government to “fully commit to a new era of social housing” in a video titled “How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis”:

“To go further toward the Vienna model, we’ll have to go beyond the market,” Mamdani said. “We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership.”

“We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale, and we can fully commit to a new era of social housing — ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone,” he continued. “We won’t decommodify housing overnight, but we know what we have to do and we have history to guide us.”

While Mamdani has denied President Donald Trump’s claim that he is a “communist,” he said that his “end goal” is “seizing the means of production” just weeks after his Gravel Institute video, during a virtual appearance at a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) conference:

full story at https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/02/mamdani-we-must-buy-up-private-housing-to-convert-into-communes/

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