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Andrew Cuomo: “We lost units because the landlords took them off the market…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 23:05

Zoron said the land, the t the tenant doesn't have to pay more rent, but we're going to cover the landlord's costs. No, you can't do both. And that's not what happened. We did freeze the rent with the Basio. We lost units because the landlords took them off the market because you weren't covering their cost. The reason the rent guidelines board went up after the freeze was because you had make up for all the backlog of costs. And this I'M going to freeze the rent. (23:05–23:12)

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Asserts that units were lost because landlords removed them from the market due to uncovered costs.

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