Do you think the Rent Is Too Damn High can make a revival?

[Suburbia]

Rent is killing people financially in most American cities. Homeownership is out of reach for a lot of NYC residents.

Jimmy McMillan's party made noise in the 2000s and 2010s as gentrification and so on changed NYC...

Can they be revived in 2025, 2029?

[John Forbes Kerrygold 🧈]

The threaf is too damn bronz

[PSOL]

The man, the legend is retired from politics.

That party only got as far as it did because the guy made a video of himself talking like he does and having an out there personality. Now the mantle is back to the regular renter activists—socialists—who have performed amicably in acting as a pressure group and getting a good electoral showing here and there.

[Sir Mohamed]

Revival? That would mean it was ever relevant.

[oldtimer]

Only if home onwership drops again like it did in the 2005-2015 period, or rent control is gone.

Jimmy McMillan was respected but not voted for, because his only policy was rent control and half of housing in New York is still under some forms of rent control.

It could become an issue, but the end of the urban office economy will create different problems for New York, like urban decline.

Before Financial Services and Entertainment boomed in the 1990's, New York was a mess, don't make me started with "old people talk about the bad old days".

[Ragnaroni]

Rent Control is a bad idea, limits supply of housing...