In the second segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and their staffs are negotiating behind closed doors while other legislators weigh in on the talks. We talk about efforts to weave affordable housing policies into the budget and the competing claims of landlords and tenants about how to address New York’s housing crisis and more.

NY State Senator Jabari Brisport x The Indypendent: Updates on State Budget Negotiations

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