{"id":492899,"date":"2026-01-05T00:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:19:20","slug":"mamdani-aide-lina-khans-obsessions-will-deepen-nyc-affordability-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492899\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani aide Lina Khan\u2019s obsessions will deepen NYC \u2018affordability\u2019 woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lina Khan has reportedly readied more than a dozen executive orders and regulatory diktats for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to issue in his first days on the job in the name of lowering costs and protecting workers<\/a>; too bad they\u2019re likely to do the reverse.<\/p>\n

Khan says she\u2019s been \u201cexploring ways to maximize executive authority\u201d in implementing his anti-corporate socialist agenda, but her record as Biden-era Federal Trade Commission chief <\/a>suggests many will fail: She was slapped down time and again by the courts for trying to usurp Congress\u2019s lawmaking powers.<\/p>\n

Even if New York courts prove friendlier, the inevitable litigation means months of uncertainty for businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of the reported agenda also looks pretty small-ball, such as reviving a 1969 consumer-protection law that claims to let a mayoral appointee declare certain trade practices \u201cunconscionable\u201d to target sports\/concert ticket pricing \u2014 a priority mostly for the entitled white lefties who formed Mamdani\u2019s base.<\/p>\n

The plan is to also use that law to target utility bills, but those are already strictly limited by other regulators \u2014 who\u2019ve had to let them soar to cover the costs of the state\u2019s insane green-energy mandates that Mamdani & Co. support.<\/p>\n

And enforcing laws meant to protect food-delivery workers will likely drive up take-out and grocery prices \u2014 a direct assault on affordability that will also mean fewer food-delivery jobs.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Another report speculated that Khan is looking to pursue private-equity firms that allegedly have gobbled up rent-stabilized residential apartment properties, harassed tenants and raised rents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As popular as demonizing landlords may be, going after private-equity groups could prevent distressed properties from getting the capital needed for basic maintenance and upgrades.<\/p>\n

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If New York\u2019s left-leaning courts allow these moves, Mamdani, Khan and their minions will find themselves looking to pile more price controls and employment mandates on top of the first round, to \u201cfix\u201d things when initial results backfire. <\/p>\n

Of course, a good socialist would want nothing less than government control of wages, prices, work hours and every other aspect of the local economy: It\u2019s worked so well in Cuba and Venezuela!<\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s tilting at corporate windmills, in short, means nothing but woe for the city \u2014 with the working class inevitably suffering most.<\/p>\n

In seeking to dictate \u201ceconomic justice,\u201d Mamdani will be slamming the very people he claims he wants to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lina Khan has reportedly readied more than a dozen executive orders and regulatory diktats for Mayor Zohran Mamdani…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,34779,4691,71984,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,3229,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,22171,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-492899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-corporations","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-lina-khan","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-regulation","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-workers","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115839628984684468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}