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Zohran Mamdani: “Our affordability agenda [aims] to take the most expensive…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

Zohran Mamdani Live on 1010 WINS

Published October 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:11

A race that every day I need to make sure I'M speaking to as many New Yorkers as possible across the five boroughs about Our affordability agenda [aims] to take the most expensive city in the United States of America and make it affordable for everyone. in this. Okay, we are going to talk about that and we have a lot of topics to talk about. (06:11–06:17)

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Asserts that his agenda focuses on making New York City affordable for everyone.

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“Queensbridge Houses, which is the largest public housing development in all of North America.”
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“Of the 24,000 mental health calls, that new approach was able to deal with all but 311 without police assistance.”
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“The M57 [bus] is the slowest bus in New York City, travels at a speed of 4.9 miles an hour.”
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“Republican governors [lead] eight out of 10 top states with the highest levels of crime in the country.”
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“This [infrastructure] is one of the most used, the most used rail passage in the entire country.”
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“My values, my commitment, my ideals, they have remained the same throughout my political career.”
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“We have to earn [votes] every single day.”
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“I'm hopeful at the news of a possible ceasefire [in Gaza].”
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“A tragedy with Hamas's horrific war crime on October 7th and the Israeli government's horrific war crimes since then, leading to the…”
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“Families [in New York City] may not have childcare if they can't cough up $22,500 a year.”
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“It will take increasing funding for hate crime prevention programs by 800%.”
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“Genocide is a term that I'm using not as my own independent assessment, but rather a reflection of leading genocide scholars from across the…”
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“These also include Israeli scholars themselves, including Amos Goldberg, Daniel Blattman.”
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“These are the findings also of a number of United Nations experts.”
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“I then said that this is language I would discourage.”
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“The Israeli military bombed [a] home into rubble, and it's gone.”
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“I've called [Hamas] a terrorist group. They committed a horrific war crime.”
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“I've said that Israel has a right to exist. I have not said as a Jewish state.”
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“I don't believe we should be purchasing Israel bonds.”
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“We as a pension fund are buying bonds of a sovereign nation...oftentimes we have only extended to the Israeli state.”
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“Freezing the rent for stabilized tenants...the city can do and has done through the Rent Guidelines Board.”
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“The pilot program of municipal owned grocery stores...cost $60 million.”
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“It'll be critically important to work with Albany for the financing and funding of making buses free. That's around $700 million a year.”
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“The financing and funding of delivering universal childcare, that's about five or six billion dollars.”
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“Governor Hochul has been interested in universal childcare before I was running for mayor.”
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“City hall wanted to deliver universal pre K, they had to fight Andrew Cuomo to be able to do so.”
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“Donald Trump's administration is too busy trying to kick 4 million Americans off of their health care.”
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“NYCHA has a clean energy project, private public partnership. They procured, I think around 30,000 heat pumps.”
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“By installing these heat pumps, they are increasing resident satisfaction to close to 90%.”
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“I've never been in support of legalization, and I'm not in support of legalization of prostitution.”
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“We have to ensure that our focus and our resources are always driven with the intent of providing safety for New Yorkers.”
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“Returning to the practices of previous marijuana administrations that ended raids on sex workers.”
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“The current approach we have, like that from Mayor Adams, where the NYPD is arresting sex workers... is a broken system.”
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“In 2020, the response time for officers was closer to 10 minutes. Today, it's closer to 16 minutes.”
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“Our clearance rates are still less than 50%.”
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“The number of 911 calls have gone up by 37% in the last decade.”
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“In Eugene, Oregon... they reduced the number of calls they had to deal with by 20%.”
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“$2.90 is now out of reach for one in five New Yorkers [for public transit].”
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“Housing is a human right.”
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“Andrew Cuomo describes [democratic socialism] as dangerous.”
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“We've had socialists who've led the city [New York City] and we've been fine.”
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“Donald Trump threatens to suspend $18 billion in infrastructure grants.”
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