Zellnor Myrie: “I want 700,000 of that to be new units and another 300,000…”

“You're saying that the city can move faster. How would you do that? So I want to deliver 1 million homes over the next 10 years. I want 700,000 of that to be new units and another 300,000 of preservation of our current housing stock. We can do 70,000 a year. Not because that's some number that I just came up with. We used to do it in the 1930s. We built the Empire State Building in 13 months.” (18:48–18:56)

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