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Zohran Mamdani: “The city of New York is owed $800 million by landlords who…”

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

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Zohran Mamdani on Freezing Rent, Making NYC Affordable Again, & Who is Really Stopping Him

Published | Video Starts at 30:02

And that's where I think that the policies I put forward that you were referring to, there's two separate things. One is ensuring that we're actually holding bad landlords accountable. This is about violations of housing code. Because right now The city of New York is owed $800 million by landlords who have violated housing codes that the city has not collected a dollar on. It's just sitting there. Why is that? Yeah, why the lack of political will? Is it lobbying? Is it like, is it blackrock going on? (30:02–30:10)

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Asserts that New York City is owed $800 million in uncollected fines from landlords for housing code violations.

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