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The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, This Thursday he asked the president of the United States, Donald Trump, promote a federal investment in affordable housing during the meeting they held this Thursday in Washington, which, if held, It would be the largest of its kind in the city in more than five decades.
According to a statement from the Mayor’s Office, the proposal represents a “unprecedented opportunity to confront the housing crisis” in the most populated city in the United States, but to do it you need more than 21 billion dollars in federal grants.
The project plans to build 12,000 new affordable homes in the area of Sunnyside Yard, in the Queens borough, the busiest rail yard in the Big Apple.
During the meeting, the young progressive mayor presented to Trump the project to revitalize the area that, according to the mayor’s office, is “especially attractive for housing projects and large-scale infrastructure development” given its proximity to Manhattan.
Mamdani arrived at the meeting with a mock newspaper front page with headlines about housing investment, with a subheadline noting Trump delivers more than 12,000 homes; the largest since 1973, in reference to the historic 1975 cover Ford to town: Diepublished by New York Daily News during the city’s economic crisis, when then-President Gerald Ford initially refused to approve a federal bailout for New York.
Trump, “very excited”
The New York mayor shared the photo of the meeting on his social networks and, according to his team, Trump was “very enthusiastic” with the proposal, which also plans to generate 30,000 jobs, as well as create new parks, schools and healthcare centers en Sunnyside Yard.
The meeting, which had not been previously announced, reflected the apparent cordial relationship that both maintain despite their marked political differences.
During his campaign for Mayor last year, Trump harshly criticized Mamdani, whom he called a “lunatic communist”, but after his election the two New Yorkers met for the first time in a meeting in Washington that marked the beginning of a relationship that until now was of a pragmatic nature.
In addition to housing investment, Mamdani addressed other issues with Trump, such as release of Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva detained by immigration agents.
According to the mayor, the president assured him that the young woman would be released “imminently”, something that happened within a few hours.
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