As more is learned about Zohran Mamdani, Democrat nominee for mayor of NYC, we see during the pandemic he called on the government to “seize” luxury condos to house the homeless. He wanted “land trusts” to buy up private housing converting it to what he called community ownership. This isn’t a new idea as it reflects life in Russia after Soviets took power and it reminded me of the movie Dr Zhivago.
Returning to Moscow after the devastation of WWI and the subsequent revolution, Zhivago ... more