only jurisdiction for property taxes is with the city council.
it follows that the city can only hike property taxes, and who pays for that? the answer is middle class workers that own property.
the policies are directed at alleviating cost of living issues for renters downtown. can you afford to rent in new york? then you're not that poor, but you might be leveraging family wealth to pay it. you're not working minimum wage, or even a unionized worker; you couldn't afford to live there, if you were. should government be taxing one family member to pay for another? it will, under these polices. that's not any sort of real reform. that's not redistributive, it's more like the rich outsourcing the municipal government to act as nannies for their overgrown trust fund kids. perhaps they can create a Ministry for Upper Class Twit Management.
rather, it follows that, despite the populist rhetoric, the only implementable actual redistribution of wealth is from unionized workers that own property to the children of the middle class, who are renting downtown to work for free, then complaining they can't afford it.
these kids could stay at home until they save up enough to move out, but that is (rightfully, in truth) seen as a societal step backwards into conservative family values systems and economic feudalism. this is a legitinate, real problem. however, the solution is for the interns to unionize and demand higher wages, not to tax the property of unionized workers, and then redistribute the wealth from the gains won by the working class to pad luxurious lifestyles for the children of the elite.
socialism for the rich is the idea underlying the concept of america, but it's rooted in slavery and capitalism for the poor, which pays for it through manual labour. mamdani is nothing new, but is merely a sneaky way to enforce the status quo, by taking advantage of geo-political grievances embedded in religious and racial identity politics to enforce bourgeois economics and continue the neo-liberal project by stealth.
don't say the leftists didn't warn you.
there it is.
cuomo is the more left-wing candidate, and is actively appealing to lower class and unionized middle class voters, but he's an asshole, and he will probably suffer from low voter turnout, and the high barriers to voting that poor people face in the united states.