In the mayoral debate, Sal Albanese strongly cut through Mayor Bill de Blasio’s progressive mask with real progressive values. His critique of the Mayor’s policies highlighted small businesses being driven out by high rents, unaffordable housing causing a 200,000-person increase in homelessness and a 20-percent increase in homeless children.
A woman making $30,000 a year and paying $1,100 a month for a studio apartment and a young firefighter making less than $60,000 a year who did not make enough to qualify for de Blasio’s “affordable” housing were a couple of examples cited by Albanese.
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