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Andrew Cuomo: “Landlords took [units] off the market [due to the rent…”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 16:35

It turned out to be a debacle and it does nothing for 75% of the units. And for the 25 it just postpones the increase and actually quite causes us to lose units because Landlords took [units] off the market [due to the rent freeze]. And ask you to address the homeless children question and we will get to rent freeze. Yeah, well the homeless answer to homeless children is you need more affordable housing. (16:35–16:37)

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Asserts that landlords removed units from the market because of the rent freeze.

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