US EditionZohran Mamdani Is Calling for City-Owned Grocery Stores. NYC Already Has Them.
NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES, JUL 21 – Zohran Mamdani proposes free bus service, rent freezes, and new taxes on millionaires and corporations to fund affordable housing and economic relief programs in NYC.
- On Friday in New York City, Zohran Mamdani met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, winning the Democratic primary with a platform including a free bus programme and rent freeze.
- Mamdani built his campaign on grassroots organising, comparing his approach to Barack Obama’s 2008 and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 bids, emphasizing detailed policies over big donors.
- Some investors and lenders are threatening to pull out of deals amid fears of new taxes and regulations, according to Mamdani, a three-term state assembly member, who also withdrew a $300 million hotel investment.
- Inna Vernikov warned New York City would become dangerous, Catsimatidis threatened to close stores, Adams called the plan a “false promise,” and Cuomo dismissed it as a “slogan.”
- Over the next decade, the campaign outlined building 200,000 affordable housing units, losing $2 billion in revenue due to millionaire migration, and proposing a $30 minimum wage by 2030.
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New York Already Has City-Owned Grocery Stores
"Of the dozens of policy proposals in Zohran Mamdani’s platform, few have generated as much debate as the Democratic mayoral nominee’s call for city-owned grocery stores," The Gothamist reports."Both sides have largely missed a crucial point: New York already has a version of city-owned groc
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