If we've got that system in place and people are arriving and then we can help them and then they get work authorizations and they move out and they start working and contributing to the city. That's what we want to be happening. We lost 400,000 people in population during the pandemic. and folks in restaurants and on construction sites and nurses. There's like so many people we need to hire. Is even that potential shift from individualized hotel rooms which again is not ideal for many people. (40:25–40:31)
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Asserts that New York City lost 400,000 people in population during the pandemic.
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