Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
The Intercept
Isiah James Wants to Take Brooklyn’s Fight for Affordable Housing to Congress
16 minutes Posted Sep 10, 2019 at 5:16 am.
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It’s a hot, humid summer evening in Brooklyn, the kind that would keep most people inside with the air conditioner blasting. But not Isiah James. The towering 32-year-old veteran who’s running for Congress in New York’s 9thDistrict, in the heart of Brooklyn, is walking with me down Flatbush Avenue, talking a mile a minute as he points to the luxury developments that have sprouted up amid the modest row homes and small shops of the Prospect Heights neighborhood.