Zohran Mamdani: “We have almost the same number of vacant supportive housing…”

“There are a wide variety of places. I'll give you one example. We have about 4,200 or so new Yorkers who are currently sleeping between our parks, our streets, and our subway stations. We have almost the same number of vacant supportive housing units. These are the very units that were built for this purpose. And yet the city's incompetence and lack of interest, frankly, in matching these two things has meant there are …” (09:50–09:54)

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