Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is a \u201crich person\u201d hogging affordable housing from homeless New Yorkers \u2014 and it\u2019s \u201ctime to move out,\u201d ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote in a scathing social media post.<\/p>\n
Cuomo unleashed his tirade on X Friday alongside a video of the left nominee and frontrunner for City Hall openly admitting he pays $2,300\u00a0for a\u00a0rent-stabilized\u00a0one-bedroom unit\u00a0in the high-demand neighborhood of Astoria, Queens.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman Zohran Mamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment,\u201d Cuomo wrote in the viral tweet<\/a> that has racked up more than 19 million views.<\/p>\n Zohran Mamdani pays $2,300 per month for his Astoria apartment. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n \u201cYou grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You\u2019ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda,\u201d he continued, pointing to the politician\u2019s $142,000 base salary<\/a> and the additional income his illustrator wife, Rama Duwaji, brings home.<\/p>\n The couple married earlier this year at the City Clerk\u2019s office before jetting off for a small, but lavish Dubai engagement and wedding celebration<\/a>. <\/p>\n They capped off their nuptials with a blockbuster,\u00a0three-day affair at his family\u2019s ritzy, secluded Ugandan compound, complete with masked security guards and a cellphone jamming system \u2013<\/a>\u2013 which Cuomo was quick to point out.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich. <\/p>\n \u201cYet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it. We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don\u2019t need it,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani had previously claimed he had plans to move out of his cheap digs. He told the New York Editorial Board<\/a> in February he found the listing on StreetEasy back when he was making $47,000 per year as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor.<\/p>\n Despite hailing from renowned, wealthy parents who sent him to the elite\u00a0$66,000-a-year Bank Street School<\/a>, Mamdani has recently claimed to have less than $2,000 in the bank.<\/p>\n His parents have plenty of cash of their own, however. <\/p>\n His Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, recently sold a\u00a0posh West Chelsea 2-bedroom\u00a0<\/a>that she had owned for more than 10 years in 2019 for $1.45 million.<\/p>\n Cuomo wrote: \u201cSomewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman Zohran Mamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment.\u201d Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a chaired Columbia University professor,\u00a0a position\u00a0which on average reaps a salary of $308,000 a year.<\/p>\n The Harvard-educated couple still live in the stylish Ivy League and\u00a0taxpayer-subsidized<\/a>\u00a03-bed, 3-bath corner apartment on Riverside Drive \u2014 with weekly maid service.<\/p>\n Mamdani also owns four acres of land in Uganda worth between $150,000 and $250,000.<\/p>\n When he moved in, Mamdani\u00a0claimed he\u00a0had\u00a0not realized he had nabbed\u00a0a rent-stabilized unit.<\/p>\n