State of the City: Speaker Adams lays out vision for boosting government effectiveness, building more affordable housing

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Council Speaker Adrienne Adams wants to go “back to basics.”

The speaker’s State of the City speech, which she delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on March 13, focussed on making city government work more effectively for all New Yorkers and taking on the mounting affordability crisis across the five boroughs.