. >> reporter: tabitha mone omery leads ighborhood association in powderhorn park, a few miles away from thwedge. >> so, powderhorn park neighborhood is amazing. it extremely vibrant and eclectic. over 50% of the community identifys persons of color. >> reporter: the area is one of the most diverse parts of minneapolis, where aroun20% live below the poverty line. in a city with virtually no rent control, the housing shortage s meant that low-income, priced out of the neighborhood, says montgomery. >> your housing options have become significantly impaired, is what i would say. so, even home ownership is becoming challenging when peopli are facing cas, cash offers. and so, homes are being sold same-day. so, i think that we'ertainly feeling the squeeze. >> reporter: last year, to address this lack of supply, city leaders came up with a bunch of ideas. one in particular raised eyebrows because it wouldmp single-family zonithe rules that say on certain lots only single-family homes can be built. no large city had entirely done away with single-family zoning before.le the new ruwould allow bu

these homes that this is happening so that's what we're dealing with it's absolutely massive and tabitha believe it or not if you look at the media cycle that canadian media has already 'd forgot about it it just came out this morning and it's almost nowhere to be seen anymore so not only is the media kind of ignoring it which seems much like what happened here but is the canadian government going to do or doing anything to upgrade these systems anyway i mean here while it may be slow we do have government programs to swap 5 or anything new on the horizon. the federal government in this country doesn't even have a program of good recommendations so they gave us a recommendation for this 5 parts per 1000000000 used to be 10 parts per 1000000000 what how much lead is allowed yeah we're on board with this and they're saying but don't worry our water come back here it's clean it's a ok go ahead and drink it now this comes out so who do you trust who can you trust and it is a. problem here is a big problem is infrastructure so a lot of these pipes are very old you don't know which in the city

welcome everybody to watch in the hot sun tabitha lawless and joining me today in the hawk's nest to cancel out the nonsense and get some truth is from new york legal and media analyst and why no of why no media and here with me in the d.c. studio r.t. america correspondent karen fronsac thank you guys both for joining me today thanks for having us thank you thanks for not canceling. the. first 1st i want to start i want to read the reporter aaron calvin's actual reporting in the original story about this so what he wrote was quote a routine background check of king social media revealed to racist jokes one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the holocaust the joe tweets date back to 2012 when king was a 16 year old high school student now let me ask you lionel i'll start with you 1st did the reporter in your mind as a media analyst do anything on apical and do you feel that he shouldn't have reported the treat tweets at all that it should about reported. well he did it from what i read pursuant to either a company rule or a paper ru