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Eric Adams: “We built more housing in the history of the city in…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Mayor Eric Adams Hosts Older Adult Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 08:41

We dropped unemployment in the citywide, but particularly in the black and brown community. We dropped unemployment by over 20%. And we looked at the housing problem in year one, year two and year three. We built more housing in the history of the city in individual years. Move more people out of homelessness into permanent housing. More people are using the PHEPS voucher program. In the history of the program and to keep you safe, we removed over 23,000 illegal guns off our streets. (08:41–08:49)

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Asserts that more housing has been built in individual years than ever before in the city's history.

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