Zohran Mamdani: “The cost of living is the real crisis.”

“Every politician says New York is the greatest city on the globe. But what good is that if no one can afford to live here? City hall is engulfed in corruption. The cost of living is the real crisis. New Yorkers are being crushed by rent and childcare. The slowest buses in the nation are robbing us of our time and our sanity. Working people are being p out of the city they built.” (00:20–00:23)

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