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Zohran Mamdani: “Signing the legislation that bans forced broker fees for New…”

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

Interview with Zoram Mamdani: Vision for New York City Mayoral Campaign

Published December 1, 2024 | Video Starts at 08:50

We're talking about freezing the rent for those 2 1/2 million new Yorkers who live in rent stabilized units. It's about Signing the legislation that bans forced broker fees for New Yorkers. which is something the mayor has yet to do. It's about making sure that we go from being a laughingstock in many ways in our public transit with regards to … (08:50–08:55)

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“More than 50% of New Yorkers are handing over a majority of their paycheck each month to a landlord or a bank for housing.”
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“About two and a half million New Yorkers live in rent stabilized units, right? Those are units that their rent is set by the mayor.”
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“What this mayor has done is use that power to raise their rents by 9% and counting.”
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“Freezing the rent for rent stabilized tenant, making buses free for the million New Yorkers who ride them every day, and making them fast…”
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“We won a free bus pilot where we made one bus route in each borough free. We saw a drop in assaults on bus drivers by 38.9%, an increase in…”
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“Quebec instituted universal childcare and saw a 10 to 1 return on their investment.”
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“More than half a million New Yorkers live in public housing.”
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“The deficit of [NYCHA] is more than $60 billion.”
Interview with Zoram Mamdani: Vision for New York City Mayoral Campaign | Uploaded December 1, 2024 | 10:42-10:45
“A median income of which is about $60,000, many of whom are fixed income seniors.”
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“In Albany, we have created against my will, more loopholes for landlords to actually raise the rent through means of individual apartment…”
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“The city has tools it's not currently using, like preferential signaling for a bus that can hold a green light for longer when a bus is…”
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“An estimate looks like around 700 to $800 million a year.”
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“I think that we can find the money, one, through a better use of funds than what Eric Adams has been doing while he's been the mayor, and…”
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“Corporations include businesses like Google, like Apple, like Microsoft.”
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“I think in studies that I've seen, it's working class New Yorkers who are disproportionately leaving at higher numbers because they can't…”
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“Freezing the rent for those 2 1/2 million New Yorkers who live in rent stabilized units.”
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“We go from being a laughingstock in many ways in our public transit with regards to the speed of our buses.”
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“I have been supportive of the proposal by and large. I don't think that it will resolve the housing crisis in and of itself.”
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“It's important to allow for greater construction around specifically transit developments.”
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“Take away the parking mandate that has been a part of so much of New York City's zoning laws.”
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“All of them [parking mandates] should have been taken away.”
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“We always love to kick this football around and say, actually it's a federal government's responsibility.”
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“We need to take a serious approach to meeting the shortfall [of NYCHA].”
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“The conditions [in NYCHA] are deplorable.”
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“My dream legislation would be the one that I'm fighting for right now, which we've been fighting for, is free buses.”
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