Zohran Mamdani is reviving the worst of the de – Latest News
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s newest rumored rent could match his imaginative and prescient of a dream crew, however for the relaxation of New York it guarantees to be a recurring nightmare.
Bringing in Steven Banks to function company counsel, the metropolis’s chief lawyer, would elevate one of the worst de Blasio administration gamers into an even more highly effective position.
Banks spent most of his skilled life at the Legal Aid Society, suing New York City; his signature achievement was forcing the metropolis to supply limitless shelter-on-demand for homeless households (virtually fully single girls and their youngsters).
He directed Blas’ homelessness “strategy” for all eight years — a strategy that introduced the quantity of metropolis homeless to a new post-Depression high, doubling outlays whilst roughly a third of shelter contracts when to corruption-plagued nonprofits.
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You can thank Banks’ singular give attention to increasing and implementing the metropolis’s distinctive right-to-shelter obligation for Gotham changing into the vacation spot of alternative for unlawful migrants flooding into the nation during the Biden border blitz.
The quantity of people dwelling in homeless shelters in New York City is nonetheless double what it was earlier than the migrant flood.
The metropolis continues to burn billions a yr on so-called “asylum” seekers — more than it spends on the Fire Department, Sanitation, Corrections or CUNY.
In the Blas years, Banks additionally oversaw the rollback of welfare reform, eradicating the work necessities as soon as tied to money help; as a consequence, welfare spending has snowballed to $2.5 billion this yr in bimonthly money handouts to more than 700,000 New Yorkers.
As the metropolis’s prime lawyer, Banks is sure to put the taxpayers’ pursuits final, declining to battle lawsuits and as a substitute settling file numbers (and quantities) of claims in supposed service to “social justice”; he’ll likely additionally fulfill Mamdani’s promise to sue, sue, sue President Donald Trump — partaking in a struggle with the White House that the metropolis can’t win.
It’s like assigning a pyromaniac to run the FDNY: Banks can have a blast, whereas common New Yorkers endure the fallout.
