It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Coming up later this hour,

why the road to control of Congress runs across the Tappinsey Bridge.

There was a big debate last night among three Democratic candidates helping to unseat Congressman Mike Lawler,

major swing district.

We're going to play excerpts from that debate and talk about why the road to control of Congress runs across the Mario Cuomo Tapappanzee Bridge coming up.

But today is Mayor Zeranamam Dani's 100th day in office.

If you're a regular listener, you know, we did a 100-day overview segment on Wednesday with

Error Lewis and Bridget Bergen.

Yesterday we had Linda Lee, the City Council's Finance Committee chair, with the Council

Leadership and the mayor

already having descended into what the New York Times calls a feud, mostly over taxes and

spending. Today, on actual day 100, we'll get into the weeds on what the new mayor has done so

far on issue number one for so many New Yorkers, affordable housing. One of Momdani's three

core campaign promises was on housing, as many of you know, remember they were universal

childcare, free public buses, and freeze the rent. Frees the rent, of course, only helps people

already in rent-stabilized apartments. That is a lot of

New Yorkers. But the mayor also has to act on developing new affordable housing, managing the

voucher system, shoring up public housing, and making home ownership as affordable as possible, too.

Some basic stats, I thought maybe you'd find these

interesting. This will get a little bit into the weeds. But according to the city government

website, this will be cocktail party chatter for you this weekend. There are about three million

households in New York City. About a third of them are rent-stabilized apartments. That's almost a million

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