Zohran Mamdani: “There's almost the same number of vacant supportive housing…”

“But my, my point is that we, we get on the train and we, and we see this, and this is an illustration of the fact There are about 4,300 New Yorkers who are homeless between our subway platforms, our parks, our streets, right? There's almost the same number of vacant supportive housing units that are built for those very kinds of New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. They're vacant. And so I tell this to you as an example. It's not all going to be about a fight for funding or a fight for, you know, transforming city government in the ways that are only big.” (06:28–06:37)

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