A memo from New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee suggests shifting the tax burden to “whiter neighborhoods,” a controversial move that has triggered alarm from his opponents.

The memo from Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, “Stop the Squeeze on NYC Homeowners,” outlined his plans to reduce costs for New York City homeowners. While he has been criticized for his ideas being overly liberal or unrealistic, one part of his plan has particularly raised eyebrows — a proposal to shift the tax burden toward white taxpayers.

The memo pledged that the mayor’s administration would “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

The memo proposed doing this by “pushing class assessment percentages down for everyone and adjusting rates up, effectively lowering tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.”

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