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Brad Lander: “Any place where you're going to develop a new market rate…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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State of Brooklyn Event: Interview with Councilman Brad Lander on Affordable Housing and Urban Development

Published | Video Starts at 04:33

Once you try to really work out the details, it get caught, it gets complicated. But the idea is very simple. At base, mandatory inclusionary zoning means, and plenty of cities have passed it this way. Any place where you're going to develop a new market rate building over some number of units, 10, 20 units, you have to include some affordable units in there. You're benefiting from the things that have happened around you, from the public investments, from the zoning, from the economy. (04:33–04:44)

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Asserts that mandatory inclusionary zoning requires affordable units in new market rate buildings over a certain size.

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