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The Race to Become Socialist Mayor of Buffalo with India Walton

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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Buffalo Is a City That Is Fiscally Dependent

There is a significant amount of housing stock in the buffalo area that's less the market value is less than 50 grants. Those homes are typically unmortgageable. But if we can work between the city and our financial institutions to provide micro mortgages to folks who may you know, who can't come up with forty five thousand dollars, but who can definitely pay i back overtime with a low interest,. We can get a lot of these houses put back to to productive use and back on the tax rolls. I'm so used to operating in contacts of housing markets that are overheated and or over expensive. That that that i have, i don't think i had thought through the policy implications of

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