Growing up in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams and his family worried about being “forced onto the streets without warning”. Now he’s on a mission to fight housing insecurity
in New York City, I carried a trash bag to school filled with my clothes because my mother worried that the locks on our home would be changed and we’d be forced onto the streets without warning. Housing insecurity is a global crisis that transcends national wealth or geography. Today, millions of children and families face housing insecurity, just like I did. Research shows that stable housing is crucial to health, education, employment and intergenerational prosperity.
Racism made us say no. Redlining housing policies discriminated against black and brown families, in effect excluding them from a pathway to prosperity. Practices like density caps, and bureaucratic and regulatory barriers, prevented the construction of high-density housing in suburban and urban neighbourhoods, and are part of that legacy of classism and racism.
In New York City, we recently saw a small group of homeowners try to block a relatively modest plan to build 350 apartments in the Bronx, including affordable homes for pensioners and veterans. Community meetings turned into shouting matches full of racially charged language. Threats were made against local elected officials.
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