People think it means they're going to. He's going to freeze their rent. No, no, no, no. The first of all, the mayor has no ability to freeze anybody's rent. No legal ability. It's done by an independent board that is term appointed and then it's only for about 25% of the housing units called the rent stabilized units. So it will have no consequence. It will never happen. We're going to have a government owned grocery store, one in each borough. We have 16,000 grocery stores. (06:45–06:55)
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Asserts rent control is managed by an independent board and affects only 25% of housing units.
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