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Fox's deranged reaction to NYC Mayor Mamdani's affordable housing proposal

Fox personalities side with negligent landlords and rant about “wealth confiscation” and “mass killing”

Written by Zachary Pleat

Published 05/29/26

After New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled his plans to make affordable housing more available in the city, Fox News personalities and guests fixated on the plan’s efforts combating negligent landlords. They declared that enforcement against negligent landlords amounted to “public theft,” said it was a “throwback to Stalin,” and ranted that legal action to turn over properties from them to more responsible stewards will lead to “mass killing” and similar atrocities.

Mamdani proposes affordable housing initiatives, action against negligent landlords}:

- NBC News: “New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled proposals Tuesday to build 200,000 affordable housing units and preserve an additional 200,000 over the next decade as part of a comprehensive housing plan.” The article continued: “The plan, dubbed ‘Block by Block, a Housing Policy for a New Era,’ includes $22 billion in new investments to build affordable housing, $5.6 billion in funding to enhance the New York City Housing Authority and a new $40-per-hour minimum wage for construction workers on city-financed projects. The proposal also outlines new aggressive code enforcement measures, investment in a city-backed home insurance provider and loosened regulations around prefabricated homes.” NBC News, [5/26/26]

- Politico: “Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to tackle ‘inequitable’ residential growth across New York City that allows many wealthy neighborhoods to add scant housing amid a massive shortage.” The article continued: “Mamdani will roll out a set of zoning and land use initiatives on Tuesday aimed at changing this paradigm, as one plank of a wide-ranging housing plan. City Hall will explore land use changes to allow residential development in neighborhoods with the lowest rates of affordable housing production, and citywide zoning reforms to permit more housing to be built near public transit, among other policy changes.” Politico, [5/26/26]

- :{Mamdani’s “Block by Block” affordable housing plan includes numerous steps to take action against negligent landlords, including a formal process to seize their buildings if they refuse to comply. Chapter 1 of:{ Mamdani’s “Block by Block” plan details how the city plans to enforce regulations and code requirements against “a small group of persistent ‘bad actor’ landlords [who] have willfully and routinely neglected their buildings.” This includes plans to “aggressively use the 7A Program” to “initiate legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers from day-to-day management,” and “where appropriate, engage with lenders to force compliance or immediately begin foreclosure proceedings when landlords refuse to comply.”}:
- Gothamist reported that the city is also working on formalizing procedures for tenants to purchase their buildings either sold by or seized from their landlords. New York City, The Office of the Mayor, [May 2026; Gothamist, 5/26/26]}:

- In a speech outlining his plan, Mamdani said: “When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards.” Mamdani continued, stating that those “responsible stewards … include community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.” CBS New York via YouTube,[]

## Fox personalities and guests side with negligent landlords, claim Mamdani’s plans will lead to mass violence and death

- Fox Business host Charles Payne on Mamdani’s plan to transfer ownership from negligent landlords: “This will be public theft. Public theft.” Payne added: “He’s actually hijacking a real problem; the transfer of ownership of private property from struggling landlords — mostly folks who own one or two buildings, in part because of, you know, rent controls and things like that — and he is hijacking the problem. Because this is what Democrats do very well — they take a problem, they take acute pain — then they find a way to hijack it and give it to their friends.” Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*, [5/28/26]

- Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Mamdani’s plans regarding negligent landlords: “I'm thinking, do people not know where this always leads? I mean, socialism to communism always leads to mass killing.” Ingraham continued: “It just does. It leads to extermination.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [5/27/26]

- Fox Business host Jackie DeAngelis on Mamdani threatening a “property takeover”: “It feels like wealth confiscation, that’s honestly what it is.” Fox Business, *The Evening Edit*, [5/27/26]

- Washington Examiner editor-in-chief Hugo Gurdon on Fox: “All socialist systems, ultimately, use force, and you can see it with Mamdani now” regarding his plans for negligent landlords. Fox News, *The Will Cain Show*, [5/27/26]

- Fox anchor Sandra Smith said Mamdani’s plan to hold negligent landlords accountable “is outright blatant theft,” while guest and Republican NYC council member Vickie Paladino cited a quote she attributed to “Zohran’s good buddy” streamer Hasan Piker: “Let the streets run red with their capitalistic blood.” Piker previously explained that the quote, which was slightly different, “was in a conversation that I was having with a landlord friend of mine, and it's of course hyperbolic and it's not meant to be sincere. This is not sincere advocacy. It's not a real policy that I would ever advocate for.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [5/27/26; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 9/17/25]

- Fox Business host Larry Kudlow claimed Mamdani “is a throwback to Stalin” over plans to address negligent landlords, likening the plans to “when the Soviet Union would confiscate the means of production.” Kudlow continued: “This stupid kid is doing the same thing, because it's what he thinks is the right thing to do. I mean, it's a throwback. I mean, nowadays the modern socialist Democratic Party uses regulatory apparatus to do this kind of thing. This kid's coming in and just, he's just taking the assets and changing ownership. … It’s like setting up little soviets.” Fox Business, *The Big Money Show*, [5/27/26]

- Discussing Mamdani’s plans for negligent landlords on Fox Business, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said: “Let’s be real and call it what this is — trying to seize private property, that is communism.” She additionally claimed: “New York City is actually the biggest slumlord in the city of New York.” Fox Business, *Varney & Co.*, [5/27/26]

- Fox anchor Martha MacCallum on Mamdani possibly turning over properties from negligent landlords to tenants: “This is Marxism. It’s collectivism. It’s government apprehending all of the means of production, property, all of the things that Marx writes and talks about are exactly what we’re seeing here.” Fox Business, *Varney & Co.*, [5/27/26]

- OnFox & Friends, network contributor and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine said Mamdani’s “communist prescriptions” targeting negligent landlords will lead to “bloodshed and mayhem and abject misery.” Devine added that Mamdani has an “eerie smile ... when he closes his eyes and says something really frightening.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [5/27/26]

### NY Post columnist Miranda Devine on Mamdani targeting negligent landlords: “Communist prescriptions” will lead to “bloodshed and mayhem and abject misery”

05/27/26 10:42 AM EDT

### Ben Shapiro: “I think there's actually a moral question as to whether you should buy a home in New York at this point unless you have to”

05/28/26 1:24 PM EDT

### Right-wing media go to bat for New York's richest by pushing a debunked myth that higher taxes will cause millionaires to flee

05/27/26

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MMA ### NY Post columnist Miranda Devine on Mamdani targeting negligent landords: “Communist prescriptions” will lead to “bloodshed and mayhem and abject misery”

05/27/26

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Fox News contributor Miranda Devine: January 6 “was really just an inconvenience for some members of Congress for a few hours at their workplace”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-miranda-devine-suggests-january-6-pipe-bombs-were-false-flag-operation

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Miranda Devine (born 1 July 1961) is an Australian columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted The Miranda Devine Show on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015.^[1] She has written columns for Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, and for News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun, and Perth's Sunday Times. As of 2022, she writes for the New York Post. Some of her political opinion pieces and statements on race, gender, and the environment have been the subject of public scrutiny and debate.^[2][3][4]

Early life and education

She is the eldest daughter of Frank Devine, a New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor and journalist, who died in 2009. She attended school at Loreto Kirribilli in Sydney and the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo. She has a Master of Science in journalism from Northwestern University (USA) and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Macquarie University. Devine studied first-year architecture at the University of Sydney, where she was a resident at Sancta Sophia College and worked briefly at the CSIRO's Division of Textile Physics.^[5]

Career

Devine worked for the Boston Herald as a reporter and feature writer. In 1989, Devine joined The Daily Telegraph as assistant editor, police reporter, and columnist after returning to Australia to live in Sydney. She had also previously worked at the British tabloid the Sun and the British newspaper Sunday Times in London. Most recently, Devine's columns, focused on United States politics, are published by the New York Post^[6] and she makes appearances promoting her articles on local media outlets. Devine formerly lived in Sydney with her husband and two sons.^[5] Devine is the author of the book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.^[7]

Commentary

Devine takes a conservative stance on a range of social and political issues.^[8] In April 2016, she coined the term "delcon" (delusional conservative) to describe conservatives who remained loyal to Tony Abbott after the Liberal Party ousted him in favour of Malcolm Turnbull.^[9][10]

Race

:{:{In 2002, Devine opined in the Sydney Morning Herald that the racial element of the Sydney gang rapes had been "airbrushed" out of the media coverage of the events. She stated that the victims alleged that prosecutors had intentionally "censored" their official statements to remove any mention of racially sensitive material.^[11]}:

Devine has also been accused by The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald of promoting the white genocide conspiracy theory and has been described as pivotal in popularising the concept within Australian politics.^[12] Referring to white South African refugees as "oppressed white, Christian, industrious, rugby and cricket-playing Commonwealth cousins", she has claimed they would "integrate seamlessly" with European Australians.^[13]}:

Environment

Devine suggested in 2009 that conservationists were to blame for the poor management of forested areas and national parks, and consequently for the deaths during the Black Saturday bushfires event.^[14] This rhetoric was revived during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season,^[15] but promptly rejected by the scientific and firefighting community.^[16][17] In 2017, she claimed that shared bicycle schemes were a terror threat.^[18] Devine is also a climate change denier, advocating for the continuation of coal-fired electricity production and she has repeatedly stated that climate change is a political conspiracy.^[19]

Gender and LGBTIQ issues

In her comments in The Daily Telegraph on the breach of duty of care lawsuit brought by 14-year-old gay student Christopher Tsakalos against the New South Wales Education Department in 1997, Devine poured cold water on the possibility of ever protecting LGBT+ students from discrimination and assault, asserting that to do so, "you would have to make mincing homosexuality the norm in schools." Devine also accused the Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association of coaching Tsakalos’ camp performance for financial reward, and to make him into "an international poster boy for the homosexual movement",^[20] a speculation strenuously refuted by his mother.^[21]

In 2011, Devine used the news of Australian federal government minister Penny Wong's decision to parent a child with her female partner as the basis of a column in which she argued that the 2011 riots in England were the result of a "fatherless society".^[22][23] Writing for ABC News, Catherine Deveny criticised Devine's claim that same-sex marriage was a "political tool to undermine the last bastion of bourgeois morality - the traditional nuclear family".^[24] Devine sparked further controversy in 2015 after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause of domestic violence in Australia and contending "if you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men".^[25] In 2016, Devine again caused controversy by comparing the purported "vilification" of opponents of same-sex marriage in Australia to the victims of beheadings by ISIS, saying that critics of same-sex marriage were being "brutally made examples of" by "intolerant authoritarians".^[26]

George Pell

In 2019, Devine defended Cardinal George Pell, at the time facing charges of which he was ultimately acquitted, related to the sexual assault of two 13-year-old boys, claiming that the victim's "accusations are implausible" and that "Victoria police chief Graham Ashton desperate for a distraction from the crime epidemic he’s incapable of stopping".^[27]

Donald Trump

:{:{Devine supported US President Donald Trump. In February 2020, Devine was reported to be "over the moon" after being retweeted^[28] by Trump.^[29] In October 2020, The Guardian described her as "one of Trump's favourite writers"^[30] after the President again retweeted one of her articles.^[31] Devine drew criticism for a "fantastically fawning love letter"^[32] to Trump in which she described him as an "invincible hero" after his recovery from COVID-19^[33] and called COVID-19 "the Chinese virus".^[34]}:

Devine has since repeated Donald Trump's unsuccessful attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election with unsubstantiated claims that Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was driven by large-scale electoral fraud.^[35] In January 2021, Devine blamed past Black Lives Matter demonstrations for the actions of rioters during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.^[36]}:

Quaden Bayles

In February 2020, Devine alleged in a series of tweets that a video showing Quaden Bayles, an Indigenous boy with achondroplasia dwarfism, crying after being bullied at school, was a scam and that Bayles was actually an adult actor.^[37] That led to Quaden's mother, Yarraka, suing Devine for defamation on behalf of her son, and also suing on her own behalf over Devine's suggestion she had coached Quaden.^[38]

In September 2020, ahead of a settlement of the suit, Devine, who was on secondment at the New York Post, tweeted an apology for her allegations that the video had been faked.^[39] Shortly after this, The Guardian reported that the Bayles family settled with Devine for almost $200,000 in damages plus legal costs.^[40]

Hunter Biden

Miranda Devine has been cited as the source for a rental application of Hunter Biden's purporting to have previously paid $49,910 of rent a month at a previous property. This has been construed by Tucker Carlson, Judge Jeanine and other Fox News hosts as proof of money laundering within the Biden family. ^[41] The fact checking website PolitiFact, points out that this claim is wrong, and that the actual property referenced is Hunter Biden's office space in the "House of Sweden" building on K Street, Washington, D.C. ^[42]

Grenfell tower fire

In June 2017, soon after the Grenfell tower fire in London, Devine claimed that "aluminium composite cladding was applied to the building last May, not just for its good looks but as a sustainable energy solution to achieve green ticks in the carbon-obsessed British regulatory system." and that "Green ideology has given us...now flammable cladding."^[43] Australian television program Media Watch said in September 2024 that the Grenfell Tower Inquiry found "no evidence of ‘green ideas’ contributing to Grenfell Tower inferno that killed 72 people, despite News Corp columnists Rowan Dean and Miranda Devine stirring up a culture war seven years ago."^[44]

References

Christensen, Nic (21 January 2016). "Miranda Devine pulls plug on Sunday night's Radio 2GB 'The Miranda Devine Show'". Mumbrella. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
Australian Associated Press (24 August 2020). "'Arguable' case that Quaden Bayles was defamed by Miranda Devine, judge says". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021. A judge has said nine-year-old Indigenous boy Quaden Bayles has an arguable case that he was defamed by columnist Miranda Devine. Justice Anna Katzmann has approved moves to serve court documents on the controversial New York-based columnist.
Canning, Simon (2 October 2016). "LGBTIQ comparison to ISIS by Tele's Miranda Devine sets off social media outrage". mumbrella.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021. Controversial News Corp columnist Miranda Devine has triggered an angry reaction with a column likening the LGBTIQ campaign supporting marriage equality to the tactics of ISIS.
Yussuf, Ahmed (6 October 2020). "Donald Trump gives shout out to Australian columnist after she calls COVID-19 "the Chinese virus"". SBS News. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2021. Controversial News Corp columnist Miranda Devine has triggered an angry reaction with a column likening the LGBTIQ campaign supporting marriage equality to the tactics of ISIS.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b "Miranda Devine". www.abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
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Devine, Miranda (30 November 2021). Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide. Post Hill Press. ISBN 9781637581056. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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Kelly, Dominic (10 April 2018). "Tony Abbott and the revenge of the 'delcons'". theconversation.com.
Devine, Miranda (12 April 2016). "Tony Abbott lovers call me the wicked witch of the left". The Daily Telegraph.
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"White Australians debate fast-track visas for Afrikaners fleeing land reform". New York Amsterdam News. 22 March 2018.
"The high price of 'white genocide' politics for Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 August 2018.

"AllLivesMatter – white lives too". Spectator Australia. 16 March 2018.
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City share bikes are a terrorist’s best friend, Daily Telegraph, 28 October 2017.
Smart meters energy crisis not reducing bills or..., Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2018.
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"Gay Student's Mother Denies Manipulation". Radio Australia. 3 April 1997. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
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Deveny, Catherine (17 August 2011). "Why equal rights activists need Miranda Devine more than rallies". The Drum. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
Deveny, Catherine (17 August 2011). "Why equal rights activists need Miranda Devine more than rallies". ABC News. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
Noyes, Jenny (28 September 2015). "Miranda Devine column prompts domestic violence survivors to share #UnsuitableWomen stories". The Vine.
Canning, Simon (2 October 2016). "LGBTIQ comparison to ISIS by Tele's Miranda Devine sets off social media outrage". mumbrella.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
Meade, Amanda (27 February 2019). "News Corp columnists declare Cardinal Pell innocent and 'a scapegoat'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
@realDonaldTrump (7 February 2020). "So true!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
Fordham, Ben (7 February 2020). "Miranda Devine reacts after Donald Trump praises her on Twitter". 2GB. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Meade, Amanda (9 October 2020). "Devine intervention: News Corp columnist forced to say she doesn't 'want grandma to die'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
@realDonaldTrump (5 October 2020). ""You see it in enthusiasm for the President outside Walter Reed Hospital. You see it in Registrations, from Florida to Pennsylvania & West Virginia, where Republicans are outstripping Democrats by 2 to 1. If the President bounces back onto the campaign trail, he will be an....!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
Lewis, Charlie (7 October 2020). "Tips and Murmurs". www.crikey.com.au. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Devine, Miranda (4 October 2020). "Coronavirus battle shows the bravery of President Trump: Devine". New York Post. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Yussuf, Ahmed (6 October 2020). "Donald Trump gives shout out to Australian columnist after she calls COVID-19 "the Chinese virus"". SBS News. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Devine, Miranda (16 December 2020). "A not-so-loony look at 2020 election results in battleground states: Devine". New York Post. Archived from the original on 20 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
Devine, Miranda (7 January 2021). "'Stain On Australia': Miranda Devine Slammed For Blaming Capitol Riots On BLM Protesters". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
Visontay, Elias (20 September 2020). "Miranda Devine apologises for Quaden Bayles tweets amid defamation case". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
Costin, Luke (24 August 2020). "Family of bullied Queensland boy Quaden Bayles progresses case against columnist Miranda Devine". 7News. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
Whitbourn, Michaela (19 September 2020). "Miranda Devine apologises for tweets ahead of defamation settlement". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
Meade, Amanda (27 September 2020). "Quaden Bayles and family to receive close to $200,000 in damages in settlement over Miranda Devine tweets". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
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Washington, District of Columbia 1800 I. Street NW. "PolitiFact - Hunter Biden paid $50,000 in rent for office space in DC, not to his father to live at Delaware home". @politifact. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
Devine, Miranda (18 June 2017). "Innocents burnt in the flames of green ideology". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). Retrieved 11 September 2024.
"Grenfell fire culture war". ABC Television (Australian TV network). 9 September 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024.

External links

"Devine's blog". at the Daily Telegraph.
"Devine's profile". at the New York Post.

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Miranda Devine (born 1 July 1961) is an Australian columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted The Miranda Devine Show on Sydney radio ...