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Brad Lander: “I live in Park Slope in the neighborhood where I first…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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Published | Video Starts at 04:21

… climate crisis, and also responds to the painful economic and racial inequalities that this crisis has so clearly revealed. And I've been working on those issues my whole adult life. I live in Park Slope in the neighborhood where I first started working at age 23 at a community based organization called the Fifth Avenue Committee. And I became the director of a group that works on affordable housing, fighting for tenants rights, helping small businesses in the area. (04:21–04:30)

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