A man in a white button down walks across a New York City street, talking about the issues New Yorkers care about: affordability, rent stabilization, and housing development. He's young, he's got a sharp beard, and he's…oddly sympathetic to landlords?
That man on your FYP is not Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani; its landlord advocate and former New York State Assemblymember Kenny Burgos.
The 31-year old Burgos heads the New York Apartment Association (NYAA), a landlord group born from the 2024 marriage of two local landlord lobbying organizations. Like its predecessors—which tried to dismantle the state's rent stabilization laws through the courts—the nascent NYAA has been busy, dropping $2.5 million through a super PAC for pro-Cuomo ads in June to support the candidate's unsuccessful bid to become the Democratic nominee for mayor, and by sharing more than 100 short-form videos about housing on social media.
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