Zohran Mamdani: “Eric Adams raised the rent by more than 10% on rent…”

“And as you've said, if we don't address this, there will be others, especially in the Republican Party who do. And instead of blaming the actual reasons that for this, this, this lack of affordability, instead of saying, oh, Eric Adams raised the rent by more than 10% on rent stabilized tenants. or the fact that we continue to greenlight more and more gas and electric, you know, costs going up, or that we have actually increased the water bill to the …” (24:56–25:00)

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