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Adrienne Adams: “The city will partially pay for it and there will be private…”

Featuring: Adrienne Adams, Democratic | Speaker of the New York City Council, Former Candidate, New York State Senate

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Adrienne Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Criticisms of Andrew Cuomo, and Policy Proposals

Published | Video Starts at 12:04

Homelessness, population and homeless issue. Now you say it'll cost $430 million over two years. How will the city pay for this? Well, The city will partially pay for it and there will be private funding as well. So it's going to be a collaborative effort. And what we're going to do, we will save billions of dollars in the long run, preventing homelessness and preventing child poverty. (12:04–12:08)

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Asserts that the city and private funding will collaboratively finance the guaranteed basic income program.

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