Mamdani: ‘We’re Putting Together Accountability Mechanisms for Bad Landlords’

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MAMDANI: “So, it‘s exactly that, Jake. It‘s actually to inform a lot of the new policies we‘re going to be putting together. We want to make sure that those policies are reflections of what so many tenants have had to go through time and time again, whether it be the kind of absurd junk fees they‘re forced to pay or the kind of conditions that they‘re forced to consider to be habitable when they know that they are anything but that. I mean, when I was running for this office, I remember standing in front of a building where the landlord had been found guilty of having a beehive that was not actually addressed over the course of many, many months. This is what many tenants are living through. We‘re going to have one of these in each borough to make sure that when we are putting together our comprehensive housing plan, we‘re putting together our accountability mechanisms for bad landlords, that they‘re actually a reflection of what tenants are having to live through.”