Brian Lear on WNYC and there's breaking news from Albany where it looks like a

historic housing deal might be struck, might have been struck by Governor

Hokkle and leaders of the legislature that gives some things

to tenant leaders that they wanted, that gives some things to landlord leaders that they

wanted, early political analysis is that neither side is actually happy.

Maybe that means this is a good compromise or maybe it just means nobody is happy.

But we're going to talk about that as well as a few other things that are still in the balance.

Remember, the April 1st fiscal year is now two weeks old in New York State, but there isn't a budget yet for this

fiscal year, so they are two weeks late in Albany and the complications of

negotiating a housing deal have had a lot to do with that.

We're going to talk to Assembly Member Zoran Mamdani from District 36 in Astoria now,

also about one of his proposals that's gotten a lot less airtime.

Assembly member Mamdani is seeking to expand the Fair Free Bus Program that was piloted at the end of last year, so we will talk about that too.

Assembly Member Mamdani, always good to have you on the show.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian.

It's a pleasure to be here.

So first of all, can you confirm that there is a housing deal?

I can't confirm that.

There is no deal that's been written or shared. it's just been proposals and a lot of press.

Let me go down a few points that have been reported about this possible deal and get your reaction hypothetically if this were to be in a bill what you would think of it and if it would be a deal breaker with respect to your vote in some of these cases.

I'm reading from some bullet points that were published in the post

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