Zohran Mamdani: “Jersey City is building seven homes per thousand people…”

“Right. We obviously have a finite amount of land, but the ways in which we restrict ourselves from building on that same amount of land. Right. It means that Jersey City is building seven homes per thousand people. Tokyo is building ten. We're barely at four. And that's not because of the lack of land. That's also because we don't want to build enough around the little land that we have. And, you know, I think it's.” (17:34–17:40)

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