Mamdani: Every Single Person Should Have Housing, Even If It Requires Abolishing Property

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MAMDANI: “My platform is that every single person should have a house, and I think, faced with these two options, the system — the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what? And if — if there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you called the abolition of private property or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now. And I think that people try and play like gotcha games about these kinds of things and it’s like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home.”