Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a hypocrite Friday for owning valuable Ugandan property while campaigning to abolish private property rights.
The Queens assemblyman owns vacant land in Jinja, Uganda, worth between $100,000 and $250,000, according to state and city financial disclosure filings. He has owned the property since 2012.
“Being a wealthy landowner with foreign investments, while holding a rent-stabilized apartment in the tightest housing market in the nation is the height of hypocrisy,” Cuomo told the New York Post.
Cuomo, who is running as an independent and trails Mamdani in recent polls, attacked his rival’s working-class persona. (RELATED: Zohran Mamdani’s Plan To Send Social Workers To Domestic Violence Calls Will Get People Killed)
Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment.
You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents.… https://t.co/kWXUI0MxdA pic.twitter.com/mvYZfCO8Af
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) August 8, 2025
“Zohran Mamdani can call himself a working class champion all he wants, but it’s just an act from an award-winning director’s son. Working men and women don’t live in mansions with armed guards and have family homes around the world — oligarchs’ sons do,” Cuomo said, according to the outlet.
“Zohran Mamdani is a mansion boy living off family wealth.”
The 33-year-old Mamdani’s parents, Columbia University Professor Mahmood Mamdani and “Monsoon Wedding” filmmaker Mira Nair, own a five-bedroom villa overlooking Lake Victoria in Uganda. They have rented the property on Airbnb for eight years, despite their son’s opposition to the platform.
Mamdani has posted videos of himself eating burritos on the subway to project an everyman image. He lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens despite his family’s wealth.
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