Sworn in as mayor of New York just over one week ago, Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time beginning to govern. In his first week in office, his administration issued twelve executive orders, including two emergency executive orders. The previous administration took several months to hit that number.
Many of the administration’s first-week executive orders, which are available on the mayor’s website and linked throughout, pertain to the campaign’s signature issue of housing affordability. Executive Order 3 revives the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. The agency was created in 2019 but defunded and sidelined under Mayor Eric Adams. The new order charges it with coordinating tenant protection efforts across city government, cracking down on repeat-offending landlords, and advocating for renters’ interests in housing policy decisions.
“For too long, bad landlords have been allowed to mistreat their tenants with impunity. That ends today,” said Mamdani at a press conference announcing the order. Mamdani appointed longtime tenant advocate and organizer Cea Weaver to helm the office, citing her “peerless record of standing up for tenants in our city.” Weaver has since been embroiled in an absurd scandal over resurfaced, since-deleted social media posts made at the high-water mark of wokeism in left politics. (I thought the era of canceling people for their old tweets ended?) But Mamdani is rightly sticking by her appointment, citing her long history as one of the city and state’s most effective tenant organizers with a long track record of fighting for affordable housing, a central plank of the now-mayor’s campaign.
Two additional orders establish task forces aimed at expanding housing supply. The Land Inventory Fast Track (LIFT) task force, created by Executive Order 4, will comb through city-owned and city-affiliated properties to identify sites capable of supporting at least twenty-five thousand new units over the next decade. It lays the…
Auteur: Meagan Day
