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Zohran Mamdani: “I'm someone who supported the CLCPA and bringing it into…”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces New Program To Speed Up NYC Affordable Housing Developments

Published March 25, 2026 | Video Starts at 23:25

And I am someone who has long been supportive of all of the measures that we take to tackle the climate crisis, and that includes the ones that we passed into law in the past years. I'm someone who supported the CLCPA and bringing it into existence. All right, thank you. We've got time for two more. We'll go to Hannah and then Melissa. Hi, Mr. Mayor. Hi, Hannah. How are you? Good, thank you. (23:25–23:30)

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Asserts support for the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).

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“In the last few decades, we've seen more than 200,000 black New Yorkers leave this city.”
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“From 2010 to 2019, we've seen the population of black children and teenagers decline by 19%.”
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“We are creating a pre-qualified roster of developers to cut down on pre-development time for new projects from 18 months to 10 months.”
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“We are cutting down on the time it takes to build affordable housing in this city by up to two and a half years.”
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“This means in a tangible sense is the creation of 1,000 additional affordable housing units on city-owned land across our city.”
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“At 784 Myrtle, we're talking about more than 100 units.”
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“When we're speaking about Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, Farmers Boulevard in Queens, we're talking about together more than 300 units of…”
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“We came into this administration inheriting a generational fiscal crisis the likes of which we hadn't seen since 2008.”
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“We saw it was at least $12 billion.”
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“We were able to bring that 12 billion down to $5.4 billion.”
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“A program that at its current level, is growing at about 4 to 5% per month.”
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“If the city were to drop its appeal, we are speaking about an expansion that would then cost over $4 billion in the next few years alone.”
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“This is a fiscal crisis that has been entirely created within city government, as opposed to one that can be blamed on external factors, as…”
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“The chief savings officers were directed to provide us with reports by the 20th, which they did so.”
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“We laid clearly that on February 17, the date of the preliminary budget, that [property tax] should be a prospect of last resort.”
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“The path that we should pursue here in our city to bridge this fiscal deficit is one that should be done by raising taxes on the wealthiest…”
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“We want to pursue a path that doesn't put this fiscal deficit on the backs of working class New Yorkers.”
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“They've put forward $1.7 billion in savings.”
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“I've long been clear that I believe that that includes taxing the wealthiest New Yorkers, the most profitable corporations.”
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