NYC's COPA Bill: A DSA-Orchestrated Land Grab Masquerading as Affordable Housing

How Radical Socialists in City Hall Are Engineering the End of Private Property—And Who's Really Pulling the Strings

NY Post uncovered the kill shot buried in the fine print of New York City's "Community Opportunity to Purchase Act" (COPA): it's not about housing—it's a calculated assault on private property rights, straight out of the Democratic Socialists of America's playbook for "decommodifying" real estate.

Sponsored by Brooklyn Councilwoman Sandy Nurse and turbocharged by incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani's DSA machine, this bill forces owners of multifamily buildings to hand first dibs to "qualified" nonprofits and community land trusts (CLTs), or face $30,000 fines. Reject the offer?

Too bad—the government dictates the terms. This isn't an opportunity; it's coercion, modeled on failed experiments in DC and San Francisco that have strangled markets and empowered politically connected insiders.

Dig deeper, and the networks bleed red. Nurse, a veteran of Occupy Wall Street's direct action wing, co-founded Mayday Space, a radical organizing hub in Bushwick that's incubated everything from climate marches to Black Youth Project activism.

Her ties run straight to the DSA orbit—she ran alongside DSA-backed candidates like Boris Santos, chief of staff to socialist State Sen. Julia Salazar. Mamdani? He's DSA royalty: endorsed by the group since 2017, he founded Students for Justice in Palestine chapters and coordinated for DSA darling Tiffany Cabán. His mayoral transition team stacks CLT affiliates like CAAAV, a nonprofit pushing community ownership models that echo socialist land reforms.

Follow the money, and it reeks of leftist foundations propping up this agenda. DSA hauls in millions from dues but pads the coffers with grants from the Jewish Communal Fund ($149,000+ since 2016), Craigslist Charitable Fund, and shadowy players like the Benjamin Fund and One World Fund.

These aren't benevolent donors—they're enablers of DSA's Housing Justice Commission, which openly calls for "forcing private landlords out" through state seizures and converting property into "public democratic control." CLTs, the bill's favored buyers, are the trojan horse: outfits like New Economy NYC and NYC Community Land Initiative rally for COPA, framing it as "community ownership" while admitting it's about giving nonprofits tools to snatch buildings from the market.

We traced the revolving doors: Mamdani's family ties scream radicalism—his father, Mahmood Mamdani, is an anti-colonial scholar; his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, amplifies leftist narratives. Nurse's BK ROT nonprofit, staffed by youth of color, funnels into broader eco-socialist networks that overlap with DSA's EcoSocialists caucus, pushing "socialized housing" via union muscle.

No shell companies surfaced in our dive, but the pattern is clear: small donors via ActBlue mask the grassroots facade, while big foundations like Ford (historical CLT backers) and Soros-linked entities hover in the ecosystem. Credit to @DataRepublican for first surfacing DSA's 2021 platform docs on housing decommodification—we verified them against FOIA pulls from NYC Council archives.

This isn't isolated. COPA apes DC's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), a 1980 law that's gutted investment, delayed sales by months, and handed power to tenant unions that critics say abuse the system for payoffs. In 2017 testimony before DC Council, hundreds blasted TOPA for enabling "extortion" where tenants demand cash to waive rights, devaluing properties and scaring off buyers. San Francisco's version? A bureaucratic nightmare that inflated costs and favored connected nonprofits. NYC's twist: 32 sponsors, veto-proof potential, and Nurse's "amended" version dropping soon amid rising rents she blames on capitalism, not her party's regulations.

Board interlocks seal the deal. DSA's National Political Committee packs Marxist caucuses like Red Star and Marxist Unity Group, overlapping with Progressive International—a global leftist network including Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace, both tied to Mamdani's anti-Israel activism. CLTs like those in NYC CLI connect to national players funded by Tenants and Owners Development Corporation, which granted DSA cash in 2019.

We obtained archived X threads from @PepesGrandma exposing Mamdani's secret meeting with Colombia's narco-linked President Gustavo Petro, a Marxist ex-guerrilla who revoked U.S. intel sharing—yet Mamdani cozies up while eyeing federal security clearances as mayor. H/T @TheChiefNerd for the video clips nailing Mamdani's refusal to credit Trump on borders, tying into his sanctuary city vows that dovetail with COPA's anti-owner bent.

The endgame? Perpetual rentership under government apparatchiks. Council Minority Leader Joann Ariola nailed it: "We're sliding headfirst into a communist dystopia." Small landlords, represented by groups like Small Property Owners of New York, warn of "government-engineered interference" that kills negotiations and devalues assets, costing the city billions in transfer taxes. Nonprofits win, owners lose, and families get squeezed into state-controlled units.

We've exposed the regime's lie: this isn't affordability—it's control. Demand Mayor Adams veto COPA now. Flood City Council with calls. Support lawsuits from realtors and owners. The networks are cracking—keep digging, keep fighting. Private property is the bedrock of freedom; lose it, and the dystopia is here.

Tamika Mallory is a rabid antisemite and friends with Linda Sarsour.

Mamdani is just rewarding his jew hating friends.

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