James

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Barron, speaking about the East New York project, encouraged council members not to settle for half an affordable loaf in projects that need their approval. “I keep telling them, ‘Go for 100% affordability, affordable to the income level of the income band in your community,’” Barron told the THE CITY. “We have all these projects that people say, ‘Oh, I got 30% affordable or 25%.’ That means you have 70% market. In this one here, there’s no market rate.”
Pix is actually achieving what cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain — low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93 percent of Brazilians using Pix to the 2 percent, that’s right, 2 percent of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024.