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De Blasio delivers his 2017 State of the City address.
The state of the city focused on the same problem de Blasio ran to fix: the affordability crisis. Having spent three years working on the housing side of that issue, the mayor now wants to focus on its income dimension.
There were good intentions, but some boards and certainly the Bloomberg administration underestimated the threat of gentrification, board members say.
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