When New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani passed his rent freeze on June 25, virtually everyone with a working brain (in other words, no Mamdani voters) predicted what would happen almost immediately.
Sure enough, barely a couple of weeks had passed before New York reported record-high rent increases, with Manhattan rents skyrocketing to more than $5,200 a month — ONE MONTH — an 8.2 percent increase from the prior year.
And if you thought that was high, you might want to take a seat for what Manhattan reported this month:
Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655/month amid Mamdani's rent freeze and pied-a-terre tax threat https://t.co/QKGZsQ4BSE pic.twitter.com/d9pcyIm082
— New York Post (@nypost) August 12, 2026
YE GODS!
Where are Jimmy McMillan and The Rent Is Too Da*n High Party when you need them?
Nearly $7,000 a month, and that's the AVERAGE. If you've seen many apartments in Manhattan, you know that most of them are not 'deluxe apartments in the sky-y-y,' as George Jefferson once boasted. You're more likely to live in a place the size of the average holding cell in a New York police precinct (but with more rats).
As The New York Post reports, the brutal 10 percent jump is hitting apartments of all sizes:
Every size apartment is getting hit, with average prices up double digits for two- and three-bedrooms. Studios now average $4,088 (up 8%), one-bedrooms are at $5,486 (up 7%), two-bedrooms have soared to $8,054 (up 13%) and three-bedrooms are averaging a staggering $12,228 (up 12%), all year-over-year. Studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms have all hit all-time highs.
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Because the rent freeze does not take effect until October and because of Mamdani's other economically ignorant policies, like his pied-à-terre tax, this was always going to happen.
Who could have predicted that stupid ideas cooked up by rich squatting nepo babies would backfire and hurt struggling working class New Yorkers https://t.co/yW1kyiHYaJ
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 12, 2026
Only everyone.
But, as many smart people on X pointed out, skyrocketing rent wasn't just inevitable; it was part of the plan.
Because the plan was never to bring down rent. The goal is to accelerate the discontent, blame free markets, and then centralize even more power. https://t.co/zBcamjnDqa
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 12, 2026
Of course, anyone who pointed that out before the rent freeze passed was called a racist and an Islamophobe by the useless media, including New York media.
Drive off the landlords, have the government seize the properties, give the control over to a NGO ran by close friends or political allies and the apartments deteriorate over time because the NGO is more concerned with greed than providing safe living conditions.
— Redneck Rogue Elf, 🐿 Whisperer (@TheRogue_Elf) August 12, 2026
We're in Phase One of that plan right now. At the rate rents are rocketing into the stratosphere, Mamdani will reach Phase Three in (pardon the expression) a New York minute.
Correct. NYC is not making mistakes. They're running a dedicated Communist playbook to inflict massive pain and shift to state controlled "democratic centralism" that can take decades to fix. https://t.co/4HjC2R0fxB
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) August 12, 2026
Just as Biden's border catastrophe was not a 'failure' but the intention all along, so are Mamdani's rent freeze and tax policy part of his goal of destroying what was once the greatest city in the world.
The cruelty is the point.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 12, 2026
When Mamdani refuses to respect the wishes of the 9/11 victim families and shows up for the 25th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attack next month, that cruelty is also intentional.
I guess
— Yiota P Kiriakes (@hypertension57) August 12, 2026
"Free"
is not going to be happening in
New York
Anytime soon
Under,
MummyDummy
The mayor of New York pic.twitter.com/Bb8mJVptco
It never was going to happen.
Not with rent, not with his government-run grocery stores, not with anything.
It's all too predictable. Don't let communists run your city, folks. It's the easiest advice to live by. They're just scammers. https://t.co/l5kTp4Cxg7
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 12, 2026
And, as Spencer Pratt knows all too well, once they get into power, they will rig the system any way they can to STAY in power.
Marxist policies hurt everyone
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) August 12, 2026
Especially the poor https://t.co/PRk2KoAeDk
Zohran Mamdani’s wife is spending thousands of your dollars to travel to the Middle East while you can’t afford rent. https://t.co/tbjIlHPJU7
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 12, 2026
Gosh, that kind of thing NEVER happens under Communist regimes, does it?
Mrs. 'Defund the Police' even demanded a police escort for her personal trip to Syria (thankfully, the NYPD refused).
'Plenty of cops for she, none for thee.'
Remember, it's not hypocrisy; it's hierarchy, one of Communism's fundamental pillars.
Violence against Jewish New Yorkers is skyrocketing. So is the cost of living. And the tax base is being destroyed as the wealthy flee. Mamdani is a politician who gets things done. He wants infidels to suffer for committing Crimes Against Islam. And the suffering has just begun. https://t.co/xVlm6TMB9M
— Ayn Reagan (@AynReagan) August 12, 2026
Mamdani will make NYC look like Uganda 🇺🇬
— @SpiceRunner (@Truth_Sniper_) August 12, 2026
Here’s their future: pic.twitter.com/wweVTWDuvD
At this point, anyone who believes that this outcome is not EXACTLY what Mamdani is seeking has to be even dumber, more gullible, and more naive than people who still think that Tony Fauci was 'an honest and faithful public servant.'
We can only hope Mamdani's personal death toll doesn't approach Fauci's.
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Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.
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