Just months after sweeping into office on soaring rhetoric about affordability and economic justice, Zohran Mamdani is facing a political storm in his own backyard. The issue sparking the backlash is simple and painful: property taxes.
In Queens this week, frustrated homeowners packed meetings and spoke to local reporters, venting anger over the mayor’s proposal to raise the city’s property tax rate by 9.5 percent. The increase is being floated as a way to plug a staggering $5.4 billion budget shortfall.
For many residents, the numbers feel like betrayal.
During the campaign, Mamdani championed “affordable housing” and painted himself as a champion of working families. But now that the city’s books are bleeding red ink, critics say the mayor’s promises are colliding head-on with economic reality.
Homeowners in Cambria Heights did not hold back.
“I don’t plan to move. It’s my home. I’m not leaving,” said homeowner Vivian Campbell.
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