This week, we opened 385 new affordable homes in Brooklyn. We’ll soon grow the Innovative Urban Village to 2,000 affordable homes, child care, jobs, a grocery store and a performing arts center. That’s what it looks like to build a city without pricing out the working class.

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4/ Also worth noting over half (54%) of French citizens polled support the protesters.

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3/ You may question the destructive tactics of some protesters (just as people did with the riots in America following the killing of George Floyd) but this is not a case of “see what happens when you let in too many non-white people”.

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Don’t listen to the far right saying protests in France are about “immigrants that won’t assimilate.” The protests are mainly student led, of an est 450,000 joining, all over France, including in white majority suburbs. They are aimed at high cost of living, chronically underfunding education /1

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To be clear. I have no kids. I pay mine and vote for school funding. But it's not sustainable, and there are more folks hurt by losing their house just because of prop tax increases. That's the problem I have with them. Even if he's a tool, there's a real problem and point.

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