Council speaker protects turf rather than city’s future

Real estate’s love-hate relationship with Adrienne Adams is on the rocks again. It’s no mystery why she came out against pro-housing reforms on the ballot this November, even though she has been a pro-housing City Council speaker: Her job is to defend the power of her chamber and its members. She is also upset that Mayor Eric Adams, by convening the commission that proposed the reforms, blocked the Council from putting its own ideas on the ballot. Speaker Adams cannot admit to these reasons, so she gave others — none of which ring true. She claimed that the measures proposed […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.