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Zohran Mamdani revealed his position on NYCHA’s RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition in Chelsea. But the Democrats closest to him refuse to hold him to account.

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and District Leader Layla Law-Gisiko at a meeting of Manhattan Dems.

Mamdani made the revelation to a select group of Chelsea residents, who are closest to the Democratic Party machine. Was the selection of that group made on purpose ?

The Democratic mayoral candidate, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (DSA-A.D. 36), reportedly had a discussion about the looming RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of NYCHA public housing in Chelsea. Participants in the secret conversation included at least one NYCHA resident leader, a nonprofit executive, and Democratic Party insiders, according to information obtained by Fight For NYCHA.

The Assemblymember Mamdani, the sole heir to a Bollywood fortune and the darling of the Socialist Democrats, revealed during the secretive talks that he privately opposed the demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea. However, he supported aspects of the controversial RAD/PACT privatisation schemes, such as the infill of public housing, even though that represented a form of upward transfers of wealth in the form of strategic, public assets to private sector real estate developers. Infill describes when community gardens, lawns, children’s parks, and open spaces are cleared for construction of high-rise luxury apartment buildings.

Though Assemblymember Mamdani nominally opposes the RAD/PACT demolition of NYCHA, the fact that he’s remaining silent about his opposition means that he’s strategically decided to use silence to effect his coördination with President Donald Trump (R) to end public housing all together.

The hush-hush conversation was an attempt by Mamdani to relate to the plight of Chelsea residents facing the complete demolition of public housing. The attempt at humanisation was meant to thwart accountability, and it worked !

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani with District Leader Layla Law-Gisiko at a meeting of Manhattan Dems at which Mamdani won the endorsement of the Democratic Party’s New York county committee. Fair Use

Information about the tight-lipped talks emerged today at a protest against the doyenne of Democratic Party LGBTQ progressive activists, Allen Roskoff, who gave an interview to Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, expressing support for an upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped NYCHA to MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross.

At our protest, an agent provocateur showed up to incite division, showing us the absolute state of panic amongst Democratic Party insiders, who are invested in the Project 2025 goal of ending public housing.

In response to the Fight For NYCHA lawsuit to challenge the legality of the RAD/PACT, some of the same Democratic Party insiders, who participated in the secretive Mamdani talks, launched an astroturf fundraiser for a non-existent lawsuit against NYCHA.

In a sign of how Assemblymember Mamdani was able to pacify the Democratic Party insiders with whom he met, the astroturf group has yet to file one lawsuit against NYCHA or the City of New York over the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of public housing in Chelsea. The Democratic Party machine activists have been silenced—not by President Trump, but by Assemblymember Mamdani and other notable Democrats !

That the Democrats support the ethnic cleansing of Chelsea should come as no surprise. It follows on the heels of Assemblymember Mamdani demonstrating that a Democrat could win a City-wide primary election race without the NYCHA vote. Just like the Republicans, the Democrats have confidently made the political calculation that NYCHA voters are expendable.

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Democrats in New York have had a race problem for some time, and it’s seemingly getting worse.

Are Blacks abandoning the Democratic Party in New York because their land use policies favour gentrification and displacement ?

In a rare and insightful probe into the state of Black power in New York, the New York Times revealed that Blacks are engaged in a migration out of New York due to the housing crisis and quality of life issues. The article postulated that, as a result, the Democratic Party faces a reckoning with the loss of, and the loss of confidence by, a key voting bloc, noting, in relevant part, that, “community leaders and residents alike say they have noticed real political and demographic shifts that stand to threaten the endurance of New York’s once-ironclad Democratic coalition . . . .” Indeed, the Rev. Dr. Adolphus Lacey, the senior pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, described the exodus as an erosion. The report highlighted that, even as Blacks are moving, it could be because they are being moved out : “the same trends that disproportionately harm Black Americans are also driving some of them out of New York.”

Setting aside quality of life issues, let’s focus on the housing crisis.

The Democrats’ answer to the housing crisis has been to approve non-stop luxury condominiums ; develop and implement an affordable housing lottery system, which has been called a scam ; and to seemingly collaborate with Republicans in the Project 2025 goal of ending public housing. Because the Democratic Party wants to make New York a playground for the rich, of course races, which have faced centuries of discrimination, are going to get squeezed out.

More luxury apartments have been built in New York City Council District 3 under Councilmembers Corey Johnson (D) and his successor, Erik Bottcher (D), than in any other City Council district. This was largely due to Hudson Yards, which was developed by MAGA billionaire and Trump White nationalism supporter-donor Stephen Ross and gentrification related to the construction of the High Line. The gentrification has ushered in a mega-new, wealthy White neighborhood : the Hudson Yards plantation.

The affordable housing lottery system is premised on providing tax benefits to wealthy real estate developers in exchange for a set-aside of apartments for at least some of the 99 per cent. However, it’s been shown that the affordable housing lottery doesn’t help the very New Yorkers, who can least afford private sector housing, no matter the tax abatements. In New York, up to 25 per cent. of Blacks live in poverty, at least eight per centage points higher than the National average in a City that serves as the power base of the Democratic Party and the financial capital of the World.

Since the Democratic Party enjoys super-majority control over New York Governments, it raises serious questions, when the private sector cannot construct low-cost housing for New Yorkers earning low-incomes, like, why are Democrats choosing to end Section 9 public housing through schemes known as Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT), and the Preservation Trust ? Approximately 90 per cent. of public housing residents living in New York are minorities. By shifting such a large bloc of vulnerable people, including senior citizens living on fixed-incomes, to the private sector, these New Yorkers will lose Civil Rights Act protections that treat housing as a human right. In place of those civil rights protections, these minorities will face private sector landlords known for violating anti-discrimination laws.

As a result, the leading candidate in the Democratic Party primary for New York City mayor cobbled his coälition . . . without Blacks !

When State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (DSA-Astoria) finished ahead in the first-round of ranked choice voting in the Democratic Party’s mayoral primary, he did so without Blacks coälescing behind his mayoral campaign. His presumptive win came without the support of the solidly-Black neighborhoods in New York, according to a report published by the New York Times. The lack of Black support flies in the face of the mayoral primary wins of Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, the Times found, adding that, nationally, the Black voting bloc carried the recent presidential nominations of Barack Obama, Hillary  Rodham Clinton, and Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

What this shows is that the White coälition that is powering Assemblymember Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has been willing to ditch Black power after making the political calculation that Black support was expendable in a City-wide mayor’s race.

Nowhere else can that be seen than in Assemblymember Mamdani’s support for the RAD/PACT and Preservation Trust sell-out of NYCHA public housing in New York. Returning to the Times‘ trend story of Democrats’ failed policies forcing Blacks to move-out of New York, two key issues facing Blacks are the housing crisis and the crisis of public housing. To maintain support amongst Whites and the Big Business community that are the sources of large, campaign donations, the support by Democrats, including Assemblymember Mamdani, to the sell-out of NYCHA could be the leading driver of Blacks being moved-out of New York.

The gentrification that beset Harlem and shattered that historic neighborhood’s focal point of Black power in New York is one example of how Democrats, who enjoy super-majority control over New York City Government and public policy, are complicit in a racist drive to break Black power in New York. They’ve learned to take their racist fight to break DEI to the ballot-box, and win, just like President Donald Trump (R).

The Democrats’ new model of White power politics, which is indifferent to Black issues and Black support, can also be witnessed in the transactional politics of Democratic Party powerbroker Allen Roskoff and in the obfuscation of District Leader Layla Law-Gisiko, who supports the privatisation and demolition of public housing in Chelsea and who uses an almost deliberate misreading of the law to excuse the unlawful disposition of City real property outside of the ULURP Process, respectively. The pattern of racial indifference is more than accidental, and its fingerprints can be seen in more than just the mayor’s race. Ask Councilmember Erik Bottcher (D-Chelsea).