Eric Adams' progressive vision, which focused on reducing the cost of living and addressing inequality through direct government interventions, helped him win the New York City mayoral election, which saw the highest turnout since 1969 in the most populous U.S. city. Adams, the son of a Ugandan academic of Indian origin and an American film director of Indian descent, spent several years of his childhood in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, where his family lived in an upscale neighborhood near the shores of Lake Victoria. Although his immediate surroundings in the tree-filled Buziga area of Kampala were far from the poverty of the city's vast slums, close associates said that Adams, since the age of 15, showed a keen interest in questions of economic justice, stemming from his experiences in Uganda.
