Mayor Mamdani’s new job: Fixing New York’s affordability crisis

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — In New York City, the typical household spends more than half of its income on rent and 100,000 people sleep in homeless shelters every night. “This is what a full-blown affordability crisis looks like,” said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine in a December report. Median rents in