C'mon, candidate de Blasio, you haven't "*created* 122,000 affordable homes." The mayoral press release said "financed" or "secured"

The devil's in the details.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's presidential campaign touts his affordable housing accomplishments, including this one: "Created 122,000 affordable homes for more than 275,000 New Yorkers."

But in a 1/16/19 mayoral press release, the city more accurately described the program as both supporting new construction and financing the preservation of existing units. That's why the press shorthand is often "create or preserve." Typically far more units are preserved than created.

The city would not have claimed to have "created 122,000 affordable homes" because it would not have been true.

And that's not even getting to the issue of whether, in fact, that quantity of created/preserved units is helping significantly. See criticism via Gothamist and City Limits.