Laut Mamdani ist der Zweitwohnungsabgabenplan ein wichtiger Schritt zur Besteuerung der Reichen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-19/mamdani-says-second-home-levy-plan-is-key-step-to-tax-the-rich?taid=69e4d5c5ba4ee50001ee1c52&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Wild how owning *multiple* homes is normal for the rich, but most folks are just trying to keep one roof over their head.
It’s wild that it took this long to actually happen, but it’s hard to feel bad for someone struggling to keep a $5 million apartment empty. If you can afford a penthouse that just sits there as a tax hedge, you can definitely afford to help fund the city services that keep the property value high in the first place.
“I don’t own it, this LLC does. In fact, they’re all owned by different entities. And they rent to each other. And I deduct all of it from my federal taxes.” Or some other fuckery.
And this somehow is angering people who make $40k a year.
How about yachts over 1M, jet aircraft, artwork.
The things billionaires covert and collect.
Luxury tax.
While I applaud the effort, I think the rich will just set up shell companies and call it a rental property (that they just happen to stay in when they want). Make it a commercial buisness, not a residence. They pay their accounts and tax lawyers a lot to avoid paying taxes.
We’ve had first home,yes, but what about second home?
Now how am I to buy “5, 10, 12” homes for my retirement?
Be a lot better if the entire country did this so they can’t threaten to go somewhere else
Entirely obvious to tax people using your badly undersupplied property market as a money laundering or investment opportunity (or both). I will happily pay this tax when we get our first in a major city, if we decide to.
it should be so much harder to own more than 1 home
This is targeted at people who claim primary residence elsewhere but still live in NYC. It’s a great way to make sure people pay their fair share and it closes this loophole.
It’s a brilliant plan, it brings in tax dollars from those that can most afford it, and worst case if they ‚flee NYC‘ more housing opens up for people that will actually live there and pay NYC taxes.
Here in Copenhagen Denmark we have a thing called bopælspligt. It means that if you own a property you are legally required to register it as your primary residence and actually live there.
This means owners cannot buy a flat and leave it empty, use it purely as a holiday home, or effectively convert it into a permanent short-term rental.
For Airbnb specifically, this matters because you can only rent out your home while you yourself are registered as living there, which limits whole-apartment Airbnb listings to cases where the owner is genuinely away temporarily, rather than running a de facto hotel operation.
Prevents the city becoming an investment for the rich but stays a place to live for the residents. But the paid a terre tax is a good start I think.
I’m sure DoomerCircleJerk is acting totally normal about all this.
Anyone who can afford a second home in NYC can afford to be taxed
If you can afford to buy an additional house and leave it empty for most of the year then it should absolutely be subject to extra taxes.
You’re taking up space in a community while barely contributing to it. This should be common sense tax policy nationwide.
It would need to come with a law limiting the raise on rent from private individuals, which I don’t think is possible. Might be wrong. But all these people are going to do is just push the tax onto renters by increasing rent.
timeshares qualify as second homes for mortgages.. any words on that in his statement?
Jeez, the man is sticking to his guns. What the hell is happening to Democrats? I hope to god he keeps this up.
Let’s not tax billionaires. Let’s charge them a fee if they want access to the great consumer market in the world. And let’s make it based on their worth and not their income. And let’s make that fee about 50% of their worth. Because my opinion – is that this is a 50-50 partnership.
We keep defending it when we should be turning it around and asking people, doesn’t it upset them that they can’t afford a home but these people can buy getaway properties in NYC?
„How many yachts can you ski behind?“ – Wall Street film
Tax empty homes.
More of this. They can afford it
Ummm, so what happens when this plan goes into effect?
Right, every rich guy who owns more than one house transfers the extra houses into his kids‘ names – or his brother’s – or his sister’s – or his parents‘ – or a numbered company.
This is one of those things politicians do because it looks like they are tackling a problem – without actually tackling the problem at all. It’s like banning straws. It doesn’t actually help the environment at all, but it sure makes everyone think you’re helping the environment – without harming businesses at all.
What happens when NY runs out the people who have discretionary income? The rich are pumping money in to an economy that’s already on the ropes. When they leave for Florida who is going to prop the economy up?
I think it was the Times that had a feature a few years ago about how people are buying up property (just condos, apartments, whole floors not necessarily entire buildings) and just holding them as an investment.
This plan makes sense!!!
Good for him we need more of this in America!
The rich make a lot of noise when you step on their „rights“ It’s a good thing they have plenty of stupid people to defend them.
Unless this will also apply to corporations these owners will just throw it in a trust owned by an llc and start an Airbnb. Hell, they’ll probably end up paying less in taxes after applying expenses like cleaning and maintenance and whatever else can be baked into Airbnb ownership
Good keep it up tax the rich and tax all those companies that are buying up homes to do air bnb
This is an amazing idea. The reason why rich people in other states are upset about this and trying to manufacturer consent around it is because they don’t want other municipalities getting the idea that they can tax successfully tax the rich.