Zohran Mamdani: “We have a focus of using every tool at our disposal to…”

“And additionally, we know that the greatest cause of homelessness, one of the greatest causes of homelessness in our city is the rising rents of this city. We cannot decouple these two issues from them. And that's why We have a focus of using every tool at our disposal to... freeze the rent for more than 2 million New Yorkers. but also to build housing at a scale that we haven't seen in this city for quite some time, such that we can ensure that we are taking every action to tackle the homelessness crisis through all of the different tools that are disposable.” (15:47–15:56)

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