Eric Adams on Welfare & Poverty

	Eric Adams on Welfare & Poverty

Create MyCity, a one-stop portal for services and benefits

MyCity will allow users to type one number into a secure app or website to instantly receive every service and benefit they qualify for without an abundance of paperwork. This constantly updated information will help New Yorkers protect themselves and their families. More than 1.5 million New Yorkers live in households that cannot afford enough quality food. Poor communications hurts effort to connect needy households to food resources.

New York City has 350,000 households that are unbanked and another 680,000 that are under banked. That means we are sidelining thousands of people from our economy and allowing industries such as payday lending to flourish by profiting off of poverty. Community-based banks in lower-income areas that remove minimum balance requirements and overdraft fees will be granted property tax relief, or their landlords will, in exchange for sharing that relief as a rent break.

Source: 2021 NYC Mayoral campaign website EricAdams2021.com , Jul 7, 2021

Build affordable housing in wealthier areas

For years, our re-zonings focused on adding apartments in lower-income areas--which led to higher-income people moving in, making communities less affordable, and often forcing out longtime residents. We will build in wealthier areas with a high quality of life, allowing lower- and middle-income New Yorkers to move in by adding affordable housing. And we will eliminate the community preference rule in those areas, which keeps many New Yorkers out of desirable neighborhoods.

Faith-based institutions have the social vision and local understanding to advance affordable and supportive housing projects on their own properties, but they often do not have the financial or technical capacity to do so. We will partner with faith-based institutions across New York City to leverage these development rights for a public purpose.

Source: 2021 NYC Mayoral campaign website EricAdams2021.com , Jul 7, 2021

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