Why doesn't Mayor Mamdani care about NYCHA affordable housing?

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Why doesn't Mayor Mamdani care about NYCHA affordable housing?
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We’re starting to wonder if Mayor Zohran Mamdani has any real interest in promoting affordable housing in New York, rather than just posing on the issue.

We’re starting to wonder if Mayor Zohran Mamdani has any real interest in promoting affordable housing in New York, rather than juston the issue: Why else would he ignore the thousands of public-housing units that sit empty for lack of funds to renovate?6,740 apartments now warehoused because the New York City Housing Authority can’t find the cash to bring them up to code.

But back to NYCHA: The vacant units put other tenants in danger, as drug crews and vagrants seize them for illegal squats.inhumane living conditionsask questions!) will do nothing for these New Yorkers — are they just not bourgeois enough for him?cares: It drove crime in public housing down 14.7% in February and 12.1% year-to-date with record-low shooting incidents, shooting victims, murders and robberies. Instead of asking the president for $21 billion for the Sunnyside project, Mamdani could find $400 million in his own budget to rehab these NYCHA units.The real reason why Kristi Noem's cuckold husband stayed married to her through Corey Lewandowski 'humiliation'

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