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Andrew Cuomo: “We have a 1% vacancy rate.”

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

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Andrew Cuomo Discusses New York City Mayoral Race and Criticisms from Eric Adams on the Speaker C Show

Published | Video Starts at 32:51

Get them the help they need, and they're a public threat. Affordability is a real problem. Build affordable housing. It's your basic government incompetence that caused the problem. There's no supply. We have a 1% vacancy rate. It takes you four years to get a building permit in New York City through that broken government. I built LaGuardia Airport in four years. I mean, so you make the government work. (32:51–32:54)

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Asserts that New York City has a 1% vacancy rate.

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