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Zellnor Myrie: “If we do not build and if we do not do it quickly and…”

Featuring: Zellnor Myrie, Democratic | New York State Senate, District 20

Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast

Published May 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 20:29

I think that we can get this done, but I'm under no illusion. It's not gonna be easy. I know it's gonna be hard, but it's worth it. Cause the alternative is, If we do not build and if we do not do it quickly and everywhere, people are gonna leave the city. We're gonna continue to see outmigration, and that's not a future that any of us want. (20:29–20:34)

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Asserts that failure to build housing quickly will lead to outmigration from the city.

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“In 2020, we had 78,000 New Yorkers that have left. They have been middle and low-income New Yorkers.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 03:26-03:36
“The average cost of a home is close to $900,000. Across the city, that number is $860,000.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 24:04-24:13
“We have between 2000 and 2500 chronically mentally ill people in this city.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 28:29-28:35
“I was there when [Andrew Cuomo] proposed cutting funding to the only state-run hospital in the city.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 06:10-06:17
“[Andrew Cuomo] cut funding to our Department of Education the time that he was governor.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 06:18-06:23
“[Andrew Cuomo] cut rental assistance, and we saw homelessness go up.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 06:22-06:25
“[Andrew Cuomo] took money from the MTA.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 06:34-06:36
“I was in SUNY Downstate when I got Covid and I was in that ICU.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 09:45-09:50
“He proposed cutting money from downstate, designated it a Covid only hospital.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 10:15-10:22
“I voted no on that budget for that specific reason.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 10:30-10:34
“He cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires instead of putting money into rental assistance and putting money into our hospitals.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 11:45-11:52
“We came up with some more money to keep it [SUNY Downstate] going.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 13:21-13:21
“We also wrote a bill that would create a community advisory board that would determine what the future of downstate would [be].”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 13:24-13:32
“The SUNY chancellor is on that board along with the commissioner of the department of Health.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 14:19-14:26
“We passed that bill in April of last year and they did not convene this commission until December.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 14:37-14:43
“Our public hospitals rely on that Medicaid reimbursement.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 15:29-15:33
“We still have not grappled with what our healthcare professionals went through during the COVID crisis.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 16:04-16:10
“I want to deliver 1 million homes over the next 10 years.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 18:44-18:48
“I want 700,000 of that to be new units and another 300,000 of preservation of our current housing stock.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 18:48-18:56
“Right now that number is close to 20 to 30,000.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 19:16-19:20
“We have industrial areas in this city that are sandwiched in between residential areas. They no longer serve that industry's purpose.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 19:57-20:06
“The rents would drop. And this is in part equation of adding more supply to bring down the demand.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 20:48-20:56
“In my district where I grew up, we've seen over the past 10 years close to 4,000 units developed.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 21:30-21:36
“In neighborhoods like Windsor Terrace, that number is closer to 300.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 21:37-21:41
“We saw pre pandemic in 2018, the last time our police count was closer to 36,000, that we had some of the lowest crime rates in the city's…”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 24:58-25:08
“I've proposed a return to that police headcount pre pandemic.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 26:35-26:39
“I've proposed 50,000 more summer youth employment slots.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 26:50-26:54
“Increase that number to 150,000 slots total so that no young person is on the waiting list during the summer.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 27:04-27:11
“It is a public safety issue, and I think that it requires both police and clinicians.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 27:36-27:44
“Right now that number is close to 1,000 of people who know that they need the help have been identified and the vacancies exist.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 29:10-29:19
“Literally my first day on the job, Arrow we passed early voting.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 34:03-34:07
“Over the six years that I've been in the state Senate, we made over 100 changes to the election law.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 34:28-34:35
“I've been hitting multiple churches on Saturdays and Sundays.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 35:11-35:15
“I've been in community centers. I've been all across the city.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 35:14-35:18
“I've raised enough money to get our message out to the voters.”
Zellnor Myrie Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Vision for New York City on 'You Decide' Podcast | Uploaded May 30, 2025 | 35:19-35:24