Zohran Mamdani: “The lack of affordability is having an impact on the ability…”

“And oftentimes when I speak about an affordability agenda, it's spoken of as if it is only A reflection of the needs of working class New Yorkers. Yet, however, when I have spoken to business leaders, I have also heard The lack of affordability is having an impact on the ability to not only start a business here in this city, but to sustain that very business. The ways in which it is demanding businesses pay for the failures of the private sector by having to add premiums in the salaries that are offered, or stipends, perhaps, for the very kinds of things that city government could be providing, namely childcare.” (06:33–06:46)

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