Cuomo offers the “Zohran law” targeting the mistreatment of stabilized housing in rent

As part of his renewed mayor campaign in New York, former governor Andrew Cuomo offers the “Zohran law” to prevent high income people from occupying stabilized rent apartments. The proposal is a sharp blow on his opponent, the Democratic candidate for the mayor Zohran Mamdani, who occupies a stabilized apartment in the rent in Astoria, Queens.

“Apartments stabilized to rent when they are vacant should only be rented to people who need affordable accommodation, not people like Zohran Mamdani,” Cuomo told journalists in a video Published on social networks.

Cuomo, who resigned from his post as governor of New York in 2021, faced with multiple controversies, told Mamdani during the weekend that he was “time to move”. The message of the former governor, published on X with a video published by Mamdani admitting that he pays “$ 2,300 for my room in Astoria”, amassed Over 33 million Views.

“You don’t need to rent stabilized rent units to rich people,” he said. “Otherwise, what you do is that you abuse the system. I will offer not to rent (stabilized) apartments, by law, except for a person who really needs affordable accommodation. And, I will call it ‘the law of Zohran’ ‘because it is an abuse of the system.”

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The candidates for the town hall of New York, the former governor Andrew Cuomo and the deputy Zohran Mamdani, clashed on apartments stabilized in the rent. (Getty Images)

The head of proposals for the now infamous progressive policy of Mamdani is his commitment to freeze the rents.

“As mayor, Zohran will immediately freeze the rent of all stabilized tenants, and use all the resources available to build the needs of New York accommodation and lower the rent,” the Mamdani campaign website.

The victory of the mayor of NYC in New York stimulates a fierce debate on the feasibility of the radical political agenda

Mamdani accused the outgoing mayor Eric Adams of appointing the members of the board of directives of rent guidelines to increase rents on stabilized apartments. While the owners and the defenders argue that the frost would be illegal, Mamdani can achieve this objective by naming the members to the council who would not vote to increase the rent.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is held with the mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference on October 24, 2018 in New York. (Spencer Platt / Getty images)

The former mayor Bill de Blasio The board of directors voted for Gelz the rent three times During his mandate.

Cuomo was the favorite to win the democratic appointment in June. But since Mamdani’s political upheaval and Cuomo’s subsequent decision to stay in the race as an independent candidate, the former governor has increased his social media strategy, opting for catchy videos and striking lines of attack.

Cuomo had already described the Democratic socialist’s plan to freeze a “politically practical” posture “and said that such a decision would harm owners who would be” unable to maintain their buildings “.

While the ardent publications on Cuomo’s social networks on the rent -renting apartment in Mamdani have gone around, by Blasio – who has not yet approved a candidate in the race to lead the most populated city in the country – retaliated on its governor.

“I did a freeze of the rent and nearly 2 million New Yorkers who work hard benefited. @Zohrankmamdani wants to make a freeze. dragged.

In a previous post, Cuomo told his 100,000 subscribers now because of Mamdani, “somewhere last night in New York, a single mother and her children slept in a shelter for homeless”, and called her to “move immediately and restore your affordable accommodation to a non-incomparable family who needs it”.

Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters at an electoral night meeting at Craft Lic’s big ones on June 24, 2025. (Getty Images / Michael M. Santiago)

“No matter how you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are in fact very rich. However, you and your wife pay $ 2,300 per month, as you have boasted, for a beautiful apartment in Astoria. It should be accommodation for someone who needs it. We are in the middle of a historic accessible crisis. You still need people.”

During a campaign event on Monday, Mamdani responded to the freshly proposed law of Cuomo “which will keep the rich out of the affordable New York housing”.

“What do we know about this political proposal beyond the fact that it seeks to express myself from my apartment?” Mamdani questioned on Monday.

“Like a large part of Andrew Cuomo’s policy, it is characterized by a small vindicte. It leaves many more questions than answers. How many New Yorkers would apply? How many New Yorkers would be expelled from their apartments?” Asked Mamdani.

An advertising apartment building “for rent” is in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, January 11, 2018. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

“I live without rent in his head,” trolled Mamdani in Cuomo, arguing that he had many years to implement policies such as the governor, but now concentrates only to try to count with a “political defeat”.

Shortly after Mamdani’s criticism, Cuomo’s campaign revealed its proposal to protect stabilized rent apartments against high income.

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“Under Cuomo’s proposal, when an apartment stabilized in rent becomes vacant, the individual income entering would be capped so that the annual rent represents at least 30% of this income. For example, if an apartment rents $ 2,500 per month ($ 30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $ 100,000”, according to the plan.

The CUOMO campaign also said that the “Zohran law” would only apply to vacant apartments.