Zohran Mamdani: “Housing is the number one crisis facing New Yorkers.”

“We are going to have this task force to continue to make recommendations because I never want to hear from someone that City hall could have been doing more to create more housing in this city when Housing is the number one crisis facing New Yorkers. Catherine, thank you very much. How do you ensure. So the executive budget included the elimination of, you know, vacant positions in addition to the new staff positions that you just mentioned.” (22:54–22:57)

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