.karaswisher and profgalloway talk to New York City Council Speaker CoreyinNYC about how the city is coping with the coronavirus: “I don’t think New Yorkers are psychologically prepared for what’s about to happen”
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images As the City Council Speaker, Corey Johnson has been one of the loudest voices pushing for a substantial coronavirus stimulus for residents of New York.
Subscribe on: Apple Podcast Spotify Pivot is produced by Rebecca Sananes. Erica Anderson is the executive producer. It is also now on YouTube.Well, it just started Sunday night at 8 p.m. I think there has been pretty broad compliance, but the real difficult thing is, New Yorkers aren’t sure how long this is going to go on for, and that uncertainty causes a tremendous amount of anxiety. This is a challenge unlike anything we’ve ever faced before.
No. 2, it would help a lot more people in small businesses, and would also create a universal basic income on top of whatever the federal government gives because we know the cost of living is more expensive in New York City. I hope that the New York congressional delegation is able to get some of that in.
We have this dual crisis, we have the health-care crisis that’s upon us and we have the economic crisis that’s hitting us day by day where you have now hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed people. And that is a really scary, painful combination that the largest city in the United States of America is going through right now.
Well, I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but the first thing, the most important thing, is to stay home just to not spread transmission, which will help in ways that people don’t even realize. So that’s No. 1. No. 2, we need to help people that are struggling with access to food right now. That’s actually one of the most important things that we need more attention to. There are a lot of now homebound seniors whom we are telling stay at home and who need access to food.
I support that. I think we need to do a rent freeze, and a rent freeze not in a way that just 90 days from now you’ll then owe a cumulative three-month bill, but a rent freeze in a way that looks at what we’re doing for people that are paying mortgages. We’re helping folks there, and for renters, which are a huge number in New York City, putting that off and then using some of the federal stimulus money to cover some of these things for New Yorkers.
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