Alexander McCoy

The cost of the housing subsidies, union construction requirements, infrastructure upgrades, and parks investments that councilmembers negotiate for is ultimately borne by the middle class renters who live in these homes, not the developers who build them.

Subjecting every new apartment building to subjective, politicized, project-by-project negotiations to extract costly concessions in exchange for permission to build is why housing is expensive in cities like New York and San Francisco.

The key issue on housing isn't regulation vs deregulation, it's centralization vs decentralization of decision making. Land use authority should be at the highest level to consider the broadest set of concerns, rather than letting a million fiefdoms be veto points.

Decentralization of land use authority is *the most significant driver* of NYC's affordable housing crisis. A strong state that can make clear, rational decisions with input from the community needs to eliminate hyperlocal governance veto points like this. This is how good…

Only 5.1% of ballots were exhausted after 11 rounds! I think we can completely put to bed the (frankly insulting and condescending) idea that voters somehow can’t understand how to do Ranked Choice Voting.

that's lander voters going: 73.0% zohran 27.0% cuomo and with exhausteds: 56.4% zohran 22.8% exhausted 20.8% cuomo

"Weiss has won over Ellison partly by taking a pro-Israel stance, according to people familiar with the matter"

It’s time for Democrats to understand the existential threat. Republicans aren’t playing around and they will do this as long as it takes to keep power. It’s time we dilute VRA districts. There are plenty of Democratic districts that have 65-80% Dem performance.

The Final Map ! — You can see the Commie Corridor + Hillside Avenue from space — Mamdani blitzed Cuomo in Harlem, Hamilton Heights, & Bed-Stuy — Cuomo holds the UWS & UES, but submits a poor showing in Manhattan A new map of NYC: less stratified by race, more by housing and age

Imagine if the Democratic nominee won the primary by 11.6% in @AOC’s congressional district and she wouldn’t endorse them, what the media reaction would be…

PRECINCT LEVEL RESULTS FOR THE FINAL ROUND ARE OUT!!!! Blue is Zohran, Yellow is Cuomo!

The Gulf’s whole deal is to have a globally critical industry in order to get protection. They got lucky with the dead dinosaur juice, which brought British and then U.S. protection. But someday that’ll end. So now the plan is to become AI base #1 so the U.S. sticks around.

This letter is up to 222 Florida #Veterans signers. I’ll continuously update the list on FLVETSLETTER dot com, where you can also sign on. Planning to send it to elected officials soon, so add you name if you’re a Veteran in Florida!

I thought I had an intuition for aerodynamics and then the Boeing CH-47 Chinook transporting a tree showed up.

“They chained me to the ground," a Nicaraguan migrant seeking U.S. asylum told WLRN in a phone call from inside Alligator Alcatraz. "I was in the sun, like, from one o’clock to seven o’clock in the evening — without no water.”

Happy Tuesday everyone. Our campaign kickoff is THIS SATURDAY! We changed the venue and time, so be sure you have all the updated info. For new info and sign up, go here👇 osbornforsenate.com/kickoff

Marines deployed with ICE. 2,000 National Guard troops across 20 states may be next. This isn’t what we fought for. ✍️ Sign our petition with @ACLU : bit.ly/defend-the-con… #NoTroopsAgainstCivilians #ProtectDemocracy

The guy speaking at ~9:30 attributes the success of @ZohranKMamdani to “outside influence” by “George Soros.” Is the media going to ask @andrewcuomo @ericadamsfornyc & @CurtisSliwa condemn this antisemitic trope being invoked by these protestors? cc @jacobkornbluh @errollouis

Buried in amendments to the Interior Dept. Gov funding bill, is a stipulation that the Kennedy Center Opera House must be renamed the 'First Lady Melania Trump Opera House' in order to receive federal funds. The Appropriations Committee adopted that amendment by a vote of 33-25.

GOP intentions for mid-decade redistricting TX: 5-6 seats OH: 1-3 seats MO: 1 seat Democrats have to respond or risk never being in government (or win narrowly in wave environments and never again)