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COMMUNITY OP-ED DECEMBER 13, 2024 | The Indian Eye 12

Making New York City

Affordable for Working

New Yorkers

We have helped New Yorkers in public housing access free high-speed internet and basic

TV through Big Apple Connect, and we are on the path to eliminate medical debt for

500,000 New Yorkers — saving them an estimated $1.8 billion

ERIC ADAMS

orking-class New Yorkers
are the backbone of our
Wcity; they keep our city safe,
healthy, clean, and help us continue
to take the greatest city in the world
to new heights. These dedicated
workers deserve the chance to build
a better future for themselves, their NYC has created homes that working people, families, immigrants, and young people need with back-to-back record years of building affordable
children, and their families. This in- housing (Representative/File photo)
cludes securing good-paying jobs, af-
fordable homes, and a world-class and young people need with back-to- er soccer-specific stadium for the New on pathways to good-paying careers.
education for their children. That is back record years of building afford- York City Football Club. Now an additional 36 schools will par-
why, from day one of our administra- able housing; this includes a com- Also, this week, the City Council ticipate in FutureReadyNYC, bring-
tion, we have focused on making New bined nearly 29,000 affordable and will vote on our historic “City of Yes ing the program to 135 schools across
York City more affordable for work- public housing units just this year. We for Housing Opportunity” propos- the five boroughs. This means a total
ing-class New Yorkers. signed two historic agreements with al that will allow us to build a “little 15,000 students will have the chance to
We have done this by helping to our partners in labor that allow us to more housing in every neighborhood.” receive real world experiences in tech,
save New Yorkers more than $30 bil- build more and build faster, all while By enacting this plan, we can clear the education, business and finance, and
lion through programs that help them creating good-paying career pathways way to build a new generation of af- health care.
get ahead, like the “Earned Income and apprenticeship opportunities for fordable housing for our city, includ- As someone raised by a single
Tax Credit,” which enables families New Yorkers living in New York City ing housing for our seniors, our fami- mother who worked several jobs to
and working-class people to have Housing Authority housing or low-in- lies, our young people, our unhoused, support our family, I know the struggle
more money to pay for groceries, bills, come zip codes. our neighbors, and so many others. It many are facing. That is what drives
and rent. We have helped New York- But we’re still delivering for New will allow us to take on the long-run- me to make sure that hard-working
ers in public housing access free high- Yorkers. Later this week, we will con- ning housing crisis that has made life New Yorkers can get the chances I
speed internet and basic TV through tinue to advance the generational Wil- far too difficult and far too unafford- was given to get ahead. We want to
Big Apple Connect, and we are on lets Point transformation, which will able for far too many New Yorkers. make and keep New York City afford-
the path to eliminate medical debt for deliver new, resilient infrastructure, And we have expanded Future- able, so that all New Yorkers can build
500,000 New Yorkers — saving them the largest 100 percent affordable ReadyNYC, our learning program their dream here in the greatest city in
an estimated $1.8 billion. housing project in 40 years in our city, that connects public school students the world.
We have created homes that over 20,000 square feet of retail space, to real job credentials, paid work- Eric Adams is the Mayor of
working people, families, immigrants, a 250-key hotel, and the city’s first-ev- based learning, and puts our students New York City, NY

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