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The Brian Lehrer Show

The City's Newest Housing Plans

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Deputy Mayor Adolfo Carrión, Jr., talks about the city's newest housing plans and the challenges that remain as the city is dealing with a shortage of affordable housing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larrow Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. With us now, Adolfo Carryon,

0:16.4

New York City's deputy mayor for housing, economic development, and workforce to talk about some of the things

0:22.1

in the news that affect New Yorkers. One is President Trump's latest round of tariffs announced today.

0:27.8

Another is Mayor Adams veto yesterday of a bill to decriminalize street vending without a license.

0:34.8

There's the mayor's recent decision not to go ahead with a senior housing

0:38.3

project on the site of the Elizabeth Street Garden in lower Manhattan, but City Hall has made

0:43.6

some other housing policy announcements the last few days as well in what they're calling Housing Week.

0:49.4

And obviously, though the deputy mayor is a city official, not here as a campaigner. This all comes in the context

0:56.1

of the mayoral election with Adams arguing he has been successful. Some of you know, Adolfo

1:01.2

carry on from his previous positions, such as Bronx Borough president, member of city council,

1:07.0

Obama administration official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

1:11.1

He says housing is his main policy interest.

1:13.7

He was even the third party independence candidate for mayor himself in 2013,

1:19.1

back when voters elected Bill de Blasio.

1:21.3

Deputy Mayor Carri-on, always good of you to come on.

1:23.3

Welcome back to WNYC.

1:25.5

Thank you, Brian.

1:26.4

Great to be with you.

1:28.1

And as I listen to your show, I always think Brian Lair, the great translator and decoder of all things complicated.

1:39.5

Thank you very much.

1:40.7

That's one of the nicest things anybody could say about me.

1:43.3

Let me start on the news from Washington and how it might affect New Yorkers in particular. We were talking about it in the previous segment in a national context. All these new tariffs announced by President Trump with housing and economic development being in your portfolio, how do you think this will affect the city

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