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Eric Adams: “We lost almost 200,000 people left this city of middle…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams' Town Hall in Rockaway: Addressing Crime, Housing, and Community Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 54:36

And as I shared earlier when someone else raised that question, we have to build based on income bands because the affordability issue, folks, is hurting everybody. If I have a school teacher and an accountant with four children, they're hurting. We lost almost 200,000 people left this city of middle income that are hurting. If you work in McDonald's and in burger King, you and your husband and wife full time, do you know your salary? (54:36–54:42)

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Asserts that nearly 200,000 middle-income people have left the city.

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