Zellnor Myrie: “I want to create 700,000 [housing units] over 10 years, you…”

“Stunning. Stunning. But we used to do big things here. So when people tell me, all right, Z, you want to get 70,000 units a year, you I want to create 700,000 [housing units] over 10 years, you want to preserve another 300,000 in that same time period. I say we absolutely can do it, because we used to do it in the 1920s. Yeah, but we haven't done anything since the 1920s.” (01:29–01:44)

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