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New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration

Published March 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 20:24

One of the most immediate is the ISIS enforcement. We have over 400,000 New Yorkers who are undocumented, who are fearful. What is your position on sanctuary? I mean, This is the greatest immigrant city the world has ever known. and it's our obligation to keep it that way. And that means enforcing the sanctuary city laws that we had in place which allow for cooperation if someone has been convicted of a serious or violent offense. (20:24–20:29)

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“As comptroller, I've invested in the creation and preservation of more units of affordable housing than all the past controllers put…”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 03:21-03:30
“We actually have about 2,500 vacant single room occupancy or SRO, or supportive housing units.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 08:36-08:45
“CompStat hasn't been updated in 20 years.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 13:30-13:33
“4% of the city's 120,000 blocks account for essentially all of the shootings.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 13:33-13:40
“Elon Musk stole $80 million from our bank account that we had spent on sheltering services for people seeking asylum here.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 21:41-21:54
“We will end the street homelessness for people with serious mental illness.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 00:50-00:55
“About 2,000 people who are sleeping on the street who have serious mental illness.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 00:59-01:05
“In the city council, I passed the Gowanus rezoning... About 8,000 units of housing, 3,000 of them genuinely affordable.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 03:05-03:15
“Evictions are through the roof because we're not providing the lawyers that we promised as part of the right to counsel legislation.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 03:44-03:52
“The affordable units in Gowanus start at about $800 a month for a one bedroom.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 06:18-06:23
“Every one of the 1500 units in that public housing in Gowanus and Wyckoff houses got renovated.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 06:43-06:50
“Traditionally the housing has only gone to what's called 60% of AMI, which would be a family making about $60,000-$65,000 a year in Gowanus.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 07:04-07:18
“On a lot of the developments that I have pushed, you got to get down to 30% [of AMI].”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 07:17-07:22
“Right now, we're talking about about 2,000 people in New York City who are sleeping on the street tonight.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 08:21-08:36
“This model that works is called housing first... It works 70 to 90% of the time to keep people stably housed.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 08:57-09:24
“The Adams administration really has what I would call a housing last policy.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 09:25-09:30
“They actually reduce shootings by 10 to 20%.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 13:49-13:55
“Stop and frisk came down dramatically at the same time that shootings and murders and violence were coming down dramatically.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 14:36-14:46
“The CCRB needs the resources to actually investigate cases which they've seen declines.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 16:08-16:28
“Most of the time now, when [the CCRB] recommend sanctions, the NYPD dismisses or downgrades them.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 16:17-16:25
“The budgeted head count is 35,000 [officers], but today we only have 33,500.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 18:16-18:19
“4,000 officers are going to hit their 20 years when they can retire this year.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 18:22-18:28
“If they all go, we're going to be over 5,000 officers down from headcount.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 18:30-18:35
“Right now you have to have 30 college credits [to join the police force].”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 19:02-19:06
“The city does not collaborate with ICE, or is not supposed to collaborate with ICE.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 20:42-20:49
“That program limits funding to $12.50 a night.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 22:05-22:10
“I'm the chief financial officer of the city. Over 700 staff, $280 billion in pension fund assets under management.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 24:12-24:20
“My audits and pension fund management have saved the city over $2.5 billion over the last couple of years.”
New York City Mayoral Interview: Brad Lander on Housing, Public Safety, and Immigration | Uploaded March 6, 2025 | 24:19-24:29