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Eric Adams: “We have 700,000 small landlords. It's going to hurt them if…”

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 1:11:20

… no matter who a candidate is, if you have those policies that are put in place, you're going to hurt small business. 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. (1:11:20–1:11:29)

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Asserts that there are 700,000 small landlords in New York City who will be negatively affected by rent control policies.

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