Time Magazine

Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral race by challenging the tradition of treating urban inequality as inevitable, advocating for policies such as a 2% millionaire tax, shifting property taxes to wealthier neighborhoods to fund $4 billion annually for affordable housing, and proposing 200,000 new affordable units and expanded childcare. His campaign also pushed fare-free buses and pedestrian-friendly streets as a ‘politics of empathy’, rejecting the idea that unaffordability and exclusion are fate rather than policy.

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