And this story is the same across the city that we call home. Higher prices, fewer available units, virtually nothing on the market for working people. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are just one rent hike, one medical emergency, one layoff from joining the ranks of the homeless. in our city, which have swelled to the greatest numbers since the Great Depression. There is good news, however, there has never been more consensus across the ideological spectrum that … (00:37–00:46)
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