'What Purpose do they Serve?' Zohran Mamdani on Private Property in Old Clip

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee in New York City, is facing criticism after an old video in which he's heard calling for the abolition of private property went viral this week.

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In the video, the 33-year-old stated that any system that guaranteed a home to everyone, even if it meant abolishing private property, would be better than the current situation, where most people couldn't afford housing. "My platform is that every single person should have housing, and I think faced with these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right For what?" He said, "People try and play like gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it's like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home." Social m