Meet Dianne Morales, the NYC mayoral candidate campaigning on defund the police insider@insider.com (Jake Lahut)
Dianne Morales is a nonprofit executive running for New York City mayor.
She is the only candidate openly campaigning on defund the police as a policy and slogan.
Morales spoke with Insider about how she plans to shake up city government.
MANHATTAN, New York - Pacing back and forth to take one last look at her prepared remarks, Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Dianne Morales briefly greeted Spike Lee before taking to a livestream from Zuccotti Park, once the home of Occupy Wall Street.
Former HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan guessed around $100,000
Former Citigroup exec Raymond McGuire went lower, at $80,000-$90,000
In the first quarter of 2021, the median price went above $900k for the first time
As recently as 2003, the median price in Brooklyn was still way above $100k
The only candidate to correctly name the median home cost was Andrew Yang
Donovan and McGuire are two of the biggest contenders left in the mayoral race
The primary, which essentially decides the mayor in NYC, is set for June 22
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It’s a house in Brooklyn, Shaun. What could it cost, $10?
New York City mayoral candidate Shaun Donovan committed a gaffe that would have ground a Park Slope dinner party to a halt in an interview with the New York Times editorial board published on Tuesday, guessing that the median sales price of a home in Brooklyn is $100,000.
That may have been correct during the Reagan administration, when Donovan was in high school. In reality, New York City’s largest borough had a median sales price of $900,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to city data published by analyst Jonathan Miller. That figure includes co-ops, condos, and one- to three-family homes.
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