Black NYC homeowners slam Mamdani’s property tax increase scheme: ‘Not happening’

Source: New York Post

Black homeowners are fuming over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s threat that he’ll raise their property taxes by nearly 10% — with some telling The Post it could force them out of New York City. “Mayor Zohran Mamdani you are out of your goddamn mind,” Cambria Heights resident James Johnson seethed. Critics like Johnson, 35, a Democratic City Council candidate and an activist for the predominantly black and working class Queens neighborhood, argued the proposed tax hike was a whiplash-inducing departure from Hizzoner’s campaign promise that only the ultra wealthy would see their taxes go up under his administration.