Zohran Mamdani's upset victory in the New York Democratic Mayoral Primary on Tuesday puts the self-proclaimed socialist one step closer to enacting his far-ranging left-wing agenda.
At the top of the candidate's list, as Reason's Liz Wolfe covered this morning, is his call to freeze rents on New York's roughly one million rent-stabilized housing units.
Relative to free market orthodoxy, a rent freeze is indeed an extreme policy proposal. In New York politics, it's a solidly mainstream idea.
