Mamdani pushes real estate leaders on affordable housing amid controversy over homeless encampments
NEW YORK — New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met Tuesday morning with a real estate and finance leaders to talk through how to move forward on his ambitious housing agenda amid controversy over his opposition to the current administration’s policy of clearing homeless encampments from the streets.
Elected largely on a platform of making NYC more affordable, Mamdani wants to shore up the city’s affordable housing supply as well as implement a rent freeze for stabilized units.
The Hudson Square meeting came after Mamdani’s stance against homeless encampment sweeps sparked debate over the weekend, with Gov. Kathy Hochul pushing back in support of them — though the practice did not come up at the meeting, according to Kathy Wylde from the Partnership for the City of New York.
“What I spoke about with leaders within the real estate industry was the importance of us reducing the timeline of getting New Yorkers into affordable housing,” Mamdani said at a chilly outdoor press conference after the meeting.
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