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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing

Published August 1, 2025 | Video Starts at 36:44

And as the deputy has stated, it has been clear our message is not to define the problem, but to correct the problem. And We're going to do [correct the problem]. that. You know, there are a great deal of folks who thought CWs couldn't happen. They thought we couldn't break the records that we did. They thought we couldn't do the five neighborhood rezoning. (36:44–36:45)

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Asserts commitment to correcting the housing crisis.

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“We have already created, preserved, or planned for approximately 30,426,800 homes for New Yorkers.”
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“We invested a record $26 billion dollars into affordable housing through HPD.”
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“We came into office three years ago with an affordable housing crisis that we were facing.”
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“Those are the two top issues that we heard in 2022 when we came into office. Public safety and housing.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 04:44-04:52
“Our agency produced nearly 34,000 homes for New Yorkers, including the most affordable rental units in city history.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 07:30-07:40
“For the first third year in a row, we produced the most affordable homes for formerly homeless New Yorkers.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 07:44-07:50
“We placed the most homeless New Yorkers into affordable housing and connected the most New Yorkers to housing through the city of housing…”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 08:07-08:16
“We cut red tape and made it easier to build housing and infrastructure.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 08:55-09:00
“We took on decades of dysfunctions. Got rid of outdated zoning and opened the door to tens of thousand new homes.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 09:26-09:35
“Most comprehensive housing reform in the history of the city. 60 years in the making. We did it in three and a half years.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 09:39-09:50
“We put forward five neighborhood plans to create even more homes. 50,000 units I believe are coming out of those neighborhood plans.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 09:52-10:03
“We created ways to turn city owned land into much needed housing.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 10:25-10:31
“Won a historic housing deal in Albany thanks to the governor.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 10:53-10:59
“This week alone, as part of housing Week, we unveiled the historic plan to turn an abandoned airfield, as I stated, into 3,000 new homes.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 11:18-11:27
“We implemented new policies to build more family sized units and senior housing and improve our seniors, the seniors, the lives of seniors.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 11:28-11:39
“We broke housing records for the third fiscal year and we're not even done.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 11:38-11:43
“426,800 families will have or will soon be connected to housing.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 11:58-12:07
“New York is a resilient city.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 31:22-31:25
“We're seeing many of these major storms hit our city over and over again.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 31:25-31:30
“Immediately we notified New Yorkers ahead of the storm, and New Yorkers prepared themselves.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 31:33-31:40
“When we called the state of emergency, it allowed us to have all of our agencies kicking gear.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 31:41-31:47
“Our FDNY team were out there doing rescues where they were needed.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 31:47-31:52
“This is the new weather patterns that we have to face and we're going to have to address.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 32:26-32:32
“Housing is a crisis level.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 36:32-36:36
“We know how to land the plane. And we land a plane in Flushing Airport and that's going to turn into housing.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Holds Press Briefing About Affordability And Housing | Uploaded August 1, 2025 | 37:01-37:09