New York City frontrunner for mayor Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious agenda to tackle the city’s housing crisis. But the spiraling costs to develop affordable housing, President Donald Trump’s efforts to gut federal housing aid and other obstacles may derail his goals.

“The rubber is going to meet the road” on Mamdani’s housing policies, said Howard Slatkin, the Executive Director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, a non-profit research organization. “It’s hard to talk about these plans without talking about the simmering distress within New York City’s affordable housing.”

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