Zohran Mamdani: “We haven't been building enough housing since 1961.”

“And it is critically important that we build all of these different kinds of housing in our city, because, to be frank, We haven't been building enough housing since 1961. We started at that point to reduce the amount of housing we were building. And as much as we are the biggest city in America, if we don't grow as a city, we die.” (28:32–28:35)

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