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

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.

She also presented new proposals like a City Council run effort to track the performance of all city agencies at a granular level and a multi-pronged approach to boosting housing production.