I've got to make sure it's fair towards the landlords, especially the small landlords. And that will open up about 100,000 apartments that right now are mothballed. We have 6,000 apartments in NYCHA public housing that the mayor has mothballed. Now why would public housing have 6,000 apartments that are not available for poor and indigent people? So there is plenty of housing. (08:08–08:14)
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