Who needs practical NYC housing policies when Zohran Mamdani has such lovely theories?

Progressives like Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams love to rage about too-high rents and apartment complexes with lots of housing violations — conveniently ignoring a fundamental contradiction, namely: Higher-rent buildings have vanishingly few violations, because the landlord can afford to fix things. Unveiling his latest “Worst Landlord” list last week, Williams raged at greedy landlords’ thousands of open violations...