Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
The New York Times••general
Key Points:
- Zohran Mamdani, on his first day as mayor, signed several executive orders focused on protecting renters and accelerating housing construction in New York City.
- He visited a rent-stabilized building in Brooklyn with significant disrepair issues and announced measures to strengthen the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and establish two housing task forces.
- Mamdani, a democratic socialist, campaigned on a platform to freeze rents on nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments and emphasized efforts to build new housing and expedite housing access.
- He revoked all executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams following Adams’ 2024 federal corruption indictment, citing a loss of public trust, despite the indictment later being dismissed.
- Mamdani
