NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that city administration is continuing on its pursuit to keep the city safe while making city more affordable and New Yorkers deserve a city that is both affordable and safe.
Speaking at media briefing, Mayor Adams said that NYC administration announced its campaign of actually putting money back into the pockets of New Yorkers.
“We found when we took office, we just saw too much money was being left on the table in the federal, on the state and on the city level because of the, just the challenges and difficulties of accessing these resources and so we put in place this real initiative to go out and put money in the pockets of New Yorkers on so many different levels,” he said.
“We can’t do anything about recession and inflation, we can’t do anything about all of those entities, but we can look at the monies that we have already that should be allocated to New Yorkers and we can get it to them,” he said.
“Thus far, we put over 30 billion dollars back into the pockets of New Yorkers and you know, 30 billion dollars. That’s money back recycled into our communities on a local level and it’s just a real way of being efficient as we move and implement the deliveries of goods and services to New Yorkers,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that this includes $4.3 billion through cash assistance program that helps New Yorkers in low-income communities for food, housing and utilities.
“1.9 billion dollars through subsidized child care, one of the great initiatives that First Deputy Mayor Wright was able to push forward to drop the cost $55,000 if you make a year less. It went from $55 a week to less than $5 a week. That was huge for families,” he said adding that 245 million dollars through the expanded earned income tax credit.
“It took 20 years before we were able to get that increase and we hear from people all the time as well as when you look at what we’re doing with the medical debt. We’re extremely proud of our medical debt relief. It’s impacting so many families,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that NYC administration filed yet another lawsuit against a major parking app that was pushing New Yorkers to unsafe garages and parking lots. “Everywhere people are tempted to do things that is an unscrupulous response to delivery of services we’re going to go after and this was one of them,” he said.
“The app allowed unlicensed and dangerous parking garages and lots who operate on city streets and exploited consumers through deceptive practices and we made it clear it’s not going to be tolerated and we took the appropriate action,” he said.
To a question about migrants, Mayor Adams said that 212,000 people entered the city and in addition to 64,000 already being homeless.
“212,000 people that we had to house. And for the slight uptick that we have with 212,000 people, it’s really remarkable. We’re gonna continue to do what we’ve done,” he said.
“Transition more people out of shelters into permanent housing in one year in the history of the city. We’re gonna continue to give smart ideas to transition people in the next step of their journey that includes re-ticketing. We’re gonna continue to say that we’re not gonna allow encampments throughout our city, like other municipalities have done. Our city has not turned into an encampment zone like we see across the country,” he added.
He asked people to take necessary precautions as National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for tomorrow.
Mayor Adams also expressed sorrow to Ms. Walker who lost her son in a horrific accident and said that police was going to find a person involved.
