Another said a city housing employee was rude to her. And another suggested de Blasio’s affordable-housing plan, which allows a few market rate housing, would flood her neighborhood with wealthier new arrivals and push out longtime residents.
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“Hillary Clinton is not a blank check – she’s money in the bank”, he said, according to the New York Observer.
De Blasio appeared Wednesday evening in Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, primarily to discuss tenants’ issues. We have an affordable-housing crisis here in New York City.
He insists he will not run for mayor in 2017, but Rep. Hakeem Jeffries sure sounded like a candidate Tuesday in a stinging attack on Mayor de Blasio for his out-of-town travels – including a planned presidential forum in Iowa.
“But who am I to advise anyone else as to how to conduct their policies?” he asked coyly.
Town halls are a mayoral tradition that de Blasio had previously eschewed.
“Issues being debated among the presidential candidates have everything to do with the quality of life of everyday New Yorkers”.
“I’ve got tremendous respect for Senator Bernie Sanders but he’s got a narrow appeal and it’s not clear to me [that it] will extend beyond certain segments in Iowa and New Hampshire and I think the polls have born that out to date”, he added. He has repeatedly praised Ms. Clinton and said that he is waiting to hear “more” about the two-time contender’s liberal vision for the country.
“I’m not considering a run at this point in time”, Jeffries said.
Jeffries insisted he has no interest in running for mayor – at least for now. “I think you will see her strengthen her support [as the race goes on]”. “We have come to the conclusion that for us and the people that we represent, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the candidate of choice, the candidate we must choose in order to move this nation forward”.
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Updated with comment from Mr.de Blasio’s office.
