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Zohran Mamdani: “Rents are rising for a number of reasons. One of them is…”

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

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The TJRS Lunch With Zohran Mamdani | The Joy Reid Show

Published | Video Starts at 22:46

How do you stop that? I think there's a few things. The first is think he's given. Oh, sorry. Okay. Rents are rising for a number of reasons. One of them is that we're not building enough housing, and we have one of the lowest vacancy rates we've had in the city in a long time. We need to build a significant amount more housing. And I've said the private sector needs to build housing, but the public sector also has to build housing. (22:46–22:56)

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Asserts that rising rents are due to insufficient housing construction and low vacancy rates.

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