The city should implement a rent freeze for all rent-stabilized tenants to improve affordability.

“The first freezing the rent for every rent stabilized tenant.”

Hasan believes that mass corporate ownership of housing leads to negative outcomes for renters by stripping away humanity.

“The more we move towards mass mega ownership, you really do get into situations where you have Wall Street pressures that end up screwing renters. Weer says the humanity is immediately stripped out.”

He considers the improvement of public housing conditions and the protection of safety net programs to be his primary mandate in Congress.

“It's to make government work for the Bronx um to protect critical programs like Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, Social Security.”

Melat Kiros asserts that housing should be treated as a basic need rather than a commodity and requires massive federal investment to fix the housing deficit.

“And again, it's just going to be massive federal investment and that is that's I think that's the responsibility of government.”

Elijah Manley argues that housing should be treated as a human right rather than a commodity and that private equity firms should be barred from purchasing residential property.

“I think housing being seen as a commodity, I think is part of the problem and not a right, which I think is a human right.”

Ryan Serhant argues that government intervention should focus on incentivizing new development through rezoning and tax credits rather than just focusing on rent control measures.

“What draws prices down, which is what he should do, is incentivize building, rezoning, create more housing, make a ton of it more affordable.”

Government regulations like rent control often increase expenses and cap income, causing capital to flee to more favorable markets.

“when you cap your ability to profit from the market rent and then you are exposed to the property tax increases and the other things. So the government can essentially increase your expenses and they can also cap your income.”

Dave Rubin argues against government-funded housing initiatives, claiming that lower taxes and deregulation are more effective ways to address housing needs through market competition.

“If you cared about affordable housing, if you wanted people to live in buildings that were better structurally and and engineered in a better way and more green and everything else, you would create economic conditions via lower regulation and lower taxes.”

Government policies affecting the housing market are often overly complex, and the primary obstacle to building new units is restrictive zoning laws.

“My feeling on construction is that housing and everything this is a thing that the market can solve just so easily that this is the thing that stands in front of new construction or units everything is zoning like a billion percent.”

He claims that rent control is a form of private property theft that demonizes capitalism and ultimately leads to the destruction of cities.

“This is the start of it, right? By being like, "Okay, yeah, it's yours, but not really. We're going to tell you what to do with it. This is how he's starting to try to bring in that socialism that he always says he wants to bring in, free everything and socialized programs."”