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This story is about the tiny minority of tenants who oppose the city’s plan to replace their crumbling old buildings with new ones—with zero tenant displacement!—because they want the city to spend money it does not have and will not get to renovate the old buildings instead.

Reminded of somebody I know ranting to me about the De Blasio administration using hotels in their neighborhood as emergency housing for homeless people---before saying that, of course, they think the government should just provide everyone with housing for free.

Anyway, occasional reminder that attempting to get NYC tenant activists to explain how they would actually pay for the NYCHA’s maintenance backlog produced the classic “white ways of knowing and being” tweet.

The Laws of Mathematics are an imperialist scam!

That one always baffled me because I'm pretty sure budgeting is not some sort of characteristically white thing to do. Pretty certain that if you want to maintain apartment buildings in like, Lagos or New Delhi or something you do need to pay people money to do it.