Zohran Mamdani: “They have a median household income of about $60,000 a year.”

“What would you say to people who argue that rent control would be economically harmful? What I would say is that about two and a half million New Yorkers live in rent stabilized housing right now. They have a median household income of about $60,000 a year. and the profits of their landlords increased in this last year by 12%. There is clearly room for relief for those very tenants who are on the precipice of being pushed out of their own city.” (08:40–08:45)

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