NEW YORK — After Zohran Mamdani’s resounding victory in New York City’s mayoral race, Brooklyn landlord Humberto Lopes took to TikTok to blast out a warning: “The storm is here.”
He’d been preparing for it. One week earlier, Lopes launched Gotham Housing Alliance, a new landlord coalition, to rally owners against Mamdani’s proposed rent freezes and other unfavorable policies. Owners are already getting a raw deal, he lamented, and the new mayor’s agenda could force them into ruin. “Enough’s enough,” Lopes declared in one recent video.
His frustration is not unique…