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Zohran Mamdani: “Housing is the number one driver of [the cost of living]…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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NYC's Plan For 400,000 Affordable Housing Units | Zohran Mamdani | TMR

Published | Video Starts at 03:07

What. What specifically were you looking at today? You know, I talk a lot about the cost of living crisis in our city, and Housing is the number one driver of [the cost of living] crisis [in our city]. And so today we announced a new plan called Block by Block, and it has three specific planks. The first one is that we're building 200,000 new, truly affordable, permanently rent stabilized homes over the next 10 years. (03:07–03:09)

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Asserts that housing is the primary factor driving the cost of living crisis in the city.

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