30 Issues in 30 Days: Rent Regulation
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNMRC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | We begin today in our 30 issues and 30 days election series, 30 straight shows where one of the segments explores an issue in |
| 0:22.6 | the New York City mayoral race or the New Jersey governor's race. We were on the Jersey side the last |
| 0:27.6 | two days back to New York today for issue number five. Should the city freeze the rent for rent |
| 0:33.7 | stabilized apartments? Should there be a means test for living in rent stabilized housing? And does the large number of rent-stabilized apartments, should there be a means test for living in rent-stabilized housing? |
| 0:39.6 | And does the large number of rent-stabilized units in the city, there are about a million of them, |
| 0:43.8 | as the stat I usually see, does that affect the rent for anyone else who doesn't live in rent-stabilized housing? |
| 0:50.6 | This will be an exchange of views in reporting between two journalist guests, and we'll |
| 0:55.7 | play clips of all four mayoral candidates, beginning right now with Assemblyman Zeran Mammani, |
| 1:01.3 | who is running explicitly on freezing the rent as he spotlights in this 30-second campaign commercial. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Assemblyman Zaharan Maldani, and I'm running for mayor to freeze the rent for every rent-stabilized tenant. |
| 1:16.4 | Wait, you're going to freeze my rent? |
| 1:18.9 | Yes. |
| 1:19.9 | Did I hear rent freeze? |
| 1:22.1 | Yes. |
| 1:23.0 | This guy's going to freeze the rent. |
| 1:24.9 | No, Ike? |
| 1:26.7 | None. |
| 1:27.9 | This guy's going to freeze the rent? No, Ike? None. This guy's going to freeze the rent. |
| 1:30.4 | It's true. |
| 1:31.4 | As your next mayor, I will freeze your rent. |
| 1:34.7 | Paid for by Zoran for NYC. |
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