Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions

Zohran Mamdani moved quickly on Thursday to sign a flurry of executive orders in his first day as mayor as he began to implement his agenda, including three orders aimed at protecting renters and building housing.

Shortly after his inauguration at City Hall, Mr. Mamdani visited a rent-stabilized building in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn where some residents have stopped paying rent because of their frustrations with the building’s disrepair — tiles falling off the walls, pipes rusting, cracks where cockroaches sneak in. Mr. Mamdani announced three executive orders that would boost the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and create two task forces to accelerate housing construction.

Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an affordability agenda, pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.

“We know we are fighting for a rent freeze, but that is not the extent of our efforts,” Mr. Mamdani said. “We will also stand up for tenants, build new housing and get New Yorkers into housing faster.”

Mr. Mamdani also signed an executive order revoking all orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after his indictment in September 2024 on federal corruption charges. He signed another to create the structure of his new administration with five deputy mayors.

Mr. Mamdani said that he revoked the orders that Mr. Adams’ issued after his indictment, which was later dismissed at the request of the Trump administration, because that was when Mr. Adams lost the public’s trust.

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