With big goal, NYC affordable homes plan due

By Jennifer Peltz
Published May 5, 2014 4:00am ET
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With big goal, NYC affordable homes plan due
Occupy Wall Street activists march during a tour of foreclosed homes in the East New York neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has an ambitious plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable units of housing over the next 10 years for lower-income New Yorkers, a staggering number that would house a population bigger than cities such as Atlanta or Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) | Mary Altaffer

NEW YORK — New Yorkers are set to hear how Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to achieve an ambitious goal: building or preserving 200,000 affordable homes over the next 10 years.

“Some people call it difficult,” he said recently, but he called the goal “as big and bold as we can possibly reach.”

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