Zohran Mamdani: “I've spoken...of a four year rent freeze for rent stabilized…”

“I didn't know that he was a constituent until one day I knocked on his door and found him on the other side of it. I was asking if you needed any help from my district office in Astoria. You know I've spoken...of a four year rent freeze for rent stabilized tenants. This would mean rent freeze for about two and a half million New Yorkers. And I've said this out of a reflection of the chasm that we've seen opening up …” (11:10–11:14)

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