And at the same time, every time we attempt to develop, you are in the way and you make it challenging to build in the city. The reason you see this housing crisis persist is, number one, we're not building more. Number two, he [Zoran Mamdani] was allowed his voice to tell everyone from the bordering countries to come to this city and live here, but they wanted to live for free. Free as long as they want to. Yeah. It was actually kind of interesting to watch all of that play out because you were actually very willing as mayor here in New York to work with the Trump administration. (04:34–04:43)
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