SPONY Small Property Owners of New York

NYC City Council are a bunch of communist slobs who've never built anything, never met a payroll, and never made a dime they didn't take from someone else. Last night they passed COPA, and they did it quietly, because cowards always do. Here's their scheme. Own a building and want to sell it? You now have to beg City Hall for permission first. Then you wait while their hand-picked cronies get first crack at your property. Only after that do these clowns let you sell your own building. Don't buy the "nonprofit" label either. These buyers are certified by the city, chosen by the city, and bankrolled by the city. When the government picks the buyer and writes the check, the government is the buyer. It's a land grab dressed up as charity. My family fled Cuba on a fishing boat when I was seven. I know these people. They always start with "helping tenants," and they always end up owning everything while the buildings crumble. These freeloaders are strangling small landlords, chasing off investors, and wrecking the city they claim to love. As Comptroller, I'll audit every dollar of this racket. New York was built by free markets, not by Council Members who couldn't run a lemonade stand.

The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act would give some tenant & community groups pathways to bid early on certain buildings that go up for sale. Five years after it was introduced, it finally has support of the Council, housing officials & the mayor. citylimits.org/is-it-finally…

Fraud is draining New York taxpayers, and the Attorney General's office isn't doing enough about it.  We can recover $1 billion and give it back to the people it belongs to.

The Mamdani administration has launched a fast track for some housing court cases. This advances part of the "Fix the City" initiative outlined in the mayor's housing plan: crainsnewyork.com/politics-p…

COPA is yet another attack on private real-estate ownership in this city. We’re sliding headfirst into a communist dystopia where the government and their apparatchik developers own all the property, and the rest of us get forced into perpetual rentorship, and this legislation is helping to get us there even quicker. This is completely unacceptable!

nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-new… “It is government-engineered interference in free-market transactions that eliminates negotiations, private sales, and potential buyers in favor of approved non-profits,”