Curtis Sliwa: “About 35,000 [rent-stabilized apartments] that are empty.”

“Sure. 6,000 empty apartments. How do you justify that when so many people are on waiting lists, sometimes for years? So that's number one. Number two, you have rents stabilized. About 35,000 [rent-stabilized apartments] that are empty. They're warehouse, they're mothballed. You gotta sit down with the landlord. Small, mid size big. Why are you. Why are they off the market? What can we do to loosen these up?” (14:41–14:44)

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