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Eric Adams: “It's going to hurt poorer communities because buildings are…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams Discusses New York City's Future Amidst Mayoral Race Against Zoran Mamdani

Published | Video Starts at 1:11:31

That's a real issue with our small businesses. We have 700,000 small landlords. It's going to hurt them if they could never raise rent, although rent rolls are not meeting the repair. And It's going to hurt poorer communities because buildings are going to fall into disrepair. We saw this before in the 70s and 80s when rent rolls were not reaching what it costs to run a building. It's going to hurt public safety, defunding police. (1:11:31–1:11:36)

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Asserts that rent control policies will lead to building disrepair in poorer communities.

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