Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist from Astoria, is gaining traction in the NYC mayoral race, advocating for progressive policies. He emphasizes a rent freeze on 2.4 million rent-stabilized units and plans for 200,000 affordable homes. Mamdani critiques existing political efforts as insufficient, linking issues like inadequate NYCHA building conditions to systemic neglect of working-class citizens. His campaign, marked by a focus on affordability and infrastructure improvements, positions him as a strong contender for voicing the needs of the city's most vulnerable residents.
Right now, it is cheaper for NYCHA to keep scaffolding up and ignore fixing the issues rather than actually investing in the people who live in these buildings.
We need to ensure that we're not simply building housing in order to hit a statistical check mark, but rather we're building it in a manner that can sustain all of the people that it would house.
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