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Zohran Mamdani: “We have to do the long term work of being able to build…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 40:01

And one of the critical things here is we have to treat the cost of living crisis as both a short term crisis and a long term crisis. We have to take immediate action. Then We have to do the long term work of being able to build 200,000 new affordable homes over 10 years. Because if you do not have a city that is growing, a city that is building, then what you have is a city that is dying. And it's difficult because here's. (40:01–40:07)

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Asserts a goal to build 200,000 new affordable homes in New York City over the next decade.

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