Zohran Mamdani: “In New York City, we have housing codes already on the…”

“You know, as you laid out, oftentimes it's not a question of developing new tools, it's whether or not you want to use the ones that you already have. In New York City, we have housing codes already on the books. We have bad landlords that have violated those codes, and they have been charged fees to the tune of $800 million. The city has not collected that money from them, not even a dollar of that 800 million. That's not because of a lack of tools. It's a lack of will. And I lay this out to say that this is a quite a simple example of if you wanted to, then you would.” (16:08–16:24)

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