Bill Ackman
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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If they can do it in Mexico, where wages are vastly lower, and there actually is a requirement to put aside an even bigger percentage, we can do it, we can do it here.
Let's use New York City as a microcosm.
Let's talk about affordability.
We start with rent, the cost of housing.
Why is the cost of housing so high in New York City?
Because unfortunately, left wing,
mayors have made it very difficult for developers to build in New York City.
And Mondami, when he freezes rents, he's just going to make the problem worse.
There are buildings in New York City, many, many buildings in New York City, where half the tenants, plus or minus, are rent-stabilized apartments, and so their rent is frozen.
And the other half are free market and so what does the landlord do in order to make.
Generate enough cash flow to cover his interest expense was going to raise rents.
Uh, in the, the part of the, because he can't raise them on half departments.
Um, you know, so there's, there's bad policy that's led to before a big part of the affordability problem.
Why is energy costs so high in New York state?
It's because we shut down nuclear power.
And we've, you know, it takes 15 years to get a, you know, power line approved a pipeline, you know, we shut down fracking in New York State, and the result is that we're importing, you know, natural gas from Pennsylvania, right, just bad policy.
And so, you know, the, we can fix a lot of these problems with much better policy.
Look at Florida.
Florida is an incredibly well-managed state.
They're talking about eliminating, I think they voted recently, eliminate real estate taxes.
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