Adem Bunkeddeko

Adem Bunkeddeko is running for Congress against Yvette Clarke in District 9 to represent Central and Southern Brooklyn. He lives in Crown Heights.

Opinion

Opinion: We Need Housing Guarantee for Brooklyn’s Working Families

New affordable housing on Flatbush Avenue under construction. Liena Zagare/BklynerIn 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act to provide “a decent home and suitable living environment for every American family.” Now 70 years later, our country is in an affordable housing crisis and homeownership is at record lows.

Central Brooklyn

In The Trenches: American Dystopia (COLUMN)

CROWN HEIGHTS – When my parents arrived in the United States having fled war-torn Uganda, they never imagined the country they would risk life and limb for would descend into this, a backward sliding dystopia. Although President Trump’s election was a truly shocking moment for them, the last few weeks

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In The Trenches: Saving the Subway, What’s The Plan B?

Q Train, Last Stop. Liena Zagare/BklynerIt is clear as the sun on a cloudless day. For Brooklynites who ride the subway, the system’s deterioration is impossible to miss: broken down trains, derailments, endless delays, and station roofs literally falling on straphangers. To make matters worse, the impending closure

Central Brooklyn

In The Trenches: Reform Grows in Brooklyn

Adem Bunkeddeko.“Sounds like a suicide mission.” This was a common refrain I heard from most of Brooklyn’s political establishment when I ran as an insurgent for Congress earlier this year against Rep. Yvette Clarke. Yet in the June Democratic primary, I captured nearly 48% of the vote. The