NYCHA residents clamor to join Mamdani’s ‘rental ripoff’ hearing as first landlord-bashing sesh gets underway: ‘We are his tenants’

Source: New York Post

Public housing residents clamored to join Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first “rental ripoff” hearing in Brooklyn Thursday – decrying the “inhumane” conditions at their city-run apartments. Tenants of the New York City Housing Authority — who were banned from testifying at the landlord-bashing sessions — told The Post they hoped officials still took seriously the myriad issues they endure, including slow repairs, horrible pest control and weak security. “The city is our landlord, the mayor is our landlord, we are his tenants so why are we not included?” Shavoya Cicero, 38, said while pointing out the various problems inside of her Walt Whitman Houses apartment unit.