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Jon Stewart: “What were those, are those zoning decisions?”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 39:30

Since the early 1960s, New York City started to make decisions that would render it unable to build the level of housing it needed to to keep up with demand. What were those, are those zoning decisions? A lot of those are zoning decisions. I see. They're decisions around capacity. Okay. And also around size of building, scale of building. (39:30–39:33)

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Questions whether zoning decisions have impacted the city's ability to build necessary housing.

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