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Eric Adams: “You can't have 14 people, 14 people die on our streets…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Former Mayor Eric Adams Talks Housing Policy, Crime & Life After City Hall | Coffee Talk

Published | Video Starts at 26:32

And so we need to tone down our rhetoric and start building in the city. And that's the danger, you know, of what we're looking at. You can't have 14 people, 14 people die on our streets because of the rhetoric that people should be allowed to live on the street. Right. You can't have one of our top tourist attractions, the Intrepid, have our streets lined with homelessness. 12 blocks. Yeah. That's just not how this city can function. (26:32–26:41)

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Asserts that 14 people have died on the streets due to rhetoric supporting street living.

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