New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he and President Donald Trump had a “productive assembly” on Thursday and that he’s “trying ahead to constructing extra housing in New York Metropolis.”
The assembly marks the second time the president and town’s new Democratic socialist mayor met within the White Home. 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, informed reporters that the final time they met, Trump requested him to return with “huge concepts” about constructing in New York.
In his submit concerning the assembly, Mamdani included a photograph displaying him with Trump holding two printouts of New York Every day Information entrance pages: an actual one from 1975 about President Gerald Ford refusing to bail out town, and a pretend one which reads “Trump to Metropolis: Let’s Construct.” Beneath the Trump headline is textual content that reads: “Delivers 12,000+ Houses; Most Since 1973.”
Calvello informed reporters after the assembly that Mamdani’s staff mocked up the newspaper props for Trump and that the figures on the web page confer with an actual proposal.
The mayor introduced Trump with “a attainable challenge in New York Metropolis that would ship one of many largest federal investments in housing of the previous 50 years,” Calvello stated. “We proposed a challenge with an estimated 12,000 housing models. … The president was very obsessed with this concept that he pitched him.”
Mamdani’s workplace didn’t present particulars on the proposal, however there’s an existing plan from town’s Financial Improvement Company that requires 12,000 models of reasonably priced housing in Queens’ Sunnyside Yards.
New York Metropolis has lengthy handled a housing scarcity and affordability disaster ― two of the key points Mamdani centered on throughout his marketing campaign. Within the New York Metropolis 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 submit that Trump informed him after the assembly that Columbia scholar Elmina Aghayeva, who was snatched by Homeland Safety brokers earlier that day, can be “launched 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 an inventory of 4 different college students who had been detained in New York Metropolis.
