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Zohran Mamdani: “Since the early 1960s, New York City started to make…”

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

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 39:20

It's also going to have to be a complete shift. I mean, I'll give you an example of this when we talk about housing. Since the early 1960s, New York City started to make decisions that would render it unable to build the level of housing it needed. to to keep up with demand. What were those, are those zoning decisions? A lot of those are zoning decisions. I see. They're decisions around capacity. Okay. (39:20–39:29)

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Asserts that policy decisions since the 1960s have hindered New York City's ability to meet housing demand.

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