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Eric Adams: “We lost 20,000 units of housing when we passed our City of…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 04:39

That was a terrible decision to tie up the time for police officers and not allowing correction officers to handcuff prisoners when you're transported. That was hurting. What we're doing around public safety, things we want to do around housing. We lost 20,000 units of housing when we passed our City of Yes initiative. We could have gotten 20,000 more units of housing, but the city council held up much of that. And so there are a few initiatives that we think are important, like the getting ready to veto two important bills. (04:39–04:46)

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Asserts that 20,000 housing units were lost due to the City of Yes initiative.

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