New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stated he and President Donald Trump had a “productive meeting” on Thursday and that he’s “looking forward to building more housing in New York City.”
The assembly marks the second time the president and the town’s new Democratic socialist mayor met within the White House. It follows an unexpectedly pleasant assembly between the 2 males in December, when Trump outright gushed about assembly his hometown’s new mayor and predicted he’d be “really great” after months of trashing him on the marketing campaign.
Joe Calvello, Mamdani’s press secretary, instructed reporters that the final time they met, Trump requested him to return with “big ideas” about constructing in New York.
In his put up concerning the assembly, Mamdani included a photograph displaying him with Trump holding two printouts of New York Daily News entrance pages: an actual one from 1975 about President Gerald Ford refusing to bail out the town, and a pretend one which reads “Trump to City: Let’s Build.” Beneath the Trump headline is textual content that reads: “Delivers 12,000+ Homes; Most Since 1973.”
Calvello instructed reporters after the assembly that Mamdani’s crew mocked up the newspaper props for Trump and that the figures on the web page discuss with an actual proposal.
The mayor offered Trump with “a possible project in New York City that could deliver one of the biggest federal investments in housing of the past 50 years,” Calvello stated. “We proposed a project with an estimated 12,000 housing units. … The president was very enthusiastic about this idea that he pitched him.”
Mamdani’s workplace didn’t present particulars on the proposal, however there’s an current plan from the town’s Economic Development Corporation that requires 12,000 models of reasonably priced housing in Queens’ Sunnyside Yards.
New York City has lengthy handled a housing scarcity and affordability disaster ― two of the most important points Mamdani targeted on throughout his marketing campaign. In the New York City metro space, the governor’s workplace says, rents have risen 30% and residential costs have risen 50% since 2015.
Mamdani added in one other social media put up that Trump instructed him after the assembly that Columbia pupil Elmina Aghayeva, who was snatched by Homeland Security brokers earlier that day, can be “released imminently.”
That replace follows college President Claire Shipman and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) saying brokers lied to realize entry to a constructing with a purpose to detain Aghayeva.
Calvello famous that Mamdani gave Trump a listing of 4 different college students who had been detained in New York City.
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