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If you listen to the City Council, you’ll hear cries that the rent is too damn high. True: The price of housing is the single biggest component in New York City’s highest-in-the-world cost of living, and it’s downright punishing for poor, working- and middle-class families here. But if you listen to Council members, you’ll also hear skittishness on Mayor Adams’ detailed new plan to bulldoze barriers to build oodles of new places where people can live.

Adams said Thursday that his plan heavily relies on reducing the paperwork and time it takes to complete building projects, both big and small.

Since taking office nearly a year ago, Mayor Eric Adams has been beating the drum on making it easier to build more desperately needed apartments across the