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However absurd & embarrassing the answer he gave, & whatever the reasons, fairly sure that the notion Shaun Donovan has no idea about real estate prices in Brooklyn is also quite absurd.

(And if you're deeply concerned about how crazy high home prices or rents are, how difficult it is to afford to live or buy a home in the city, Donovan should probably be among the candidates you most closely consider.)

Ok that last tweet is a bridge too far!

i was actually somewhat thinking about your viewpoint when i said that and thinking he might even be in your top 3 on housing?

Ok this is interesting! He is def the candidate of a lot of the “affordable housing” community (NYSFAH etc) (but maybe not Phipps lmao), but not the tenant community....and he certainly knows more abt the challenges than anyone, but is also complicit in the results....

I have more thoughts than can fit in a tweet! But he was Bloomberg’s HPD guy and we can’t get his team to take good cause seriously and that’s a hard no for me

In general re: his housing plan: there are policies that challenge the for profit affordable housing industry and the market value of housing in NY and his largely do not