Excited to see our very own @umassboston.bsky.social @profcew.bsky.social on this list! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/20/m... - thinking about balancing growth with equity. #GlobeSummit2025

Time to keep the promises we make to our students.

Good morning #Montreal. Another gorgeous day @urbaneconomics.bsky.social #UEA2025 Feeling inspired.

As I prepare for my next class this is the thought the both motivates me and paralyzes me - are my students still going to get hired? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/28/b...

substack.com/@noahpinion/... - Very interesting thought experiment but I disagree. I propose instead to take issues of congestion more seriously. If we can maintain mobility as we density cities maybe backlash won’t be so bad? #CongestionPricing #BuildMABuild #MAYIMBY #MAPoli

First #LegoHQ now #HasbroHQ - Is it safe to say #BostonisFun now? I now know two places to work that may keep my boys in Boston when they grow up!?! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/08/m... Added to my lecture for tomorrow! #UrbanEcon

First day of school for me! Arrived by bike and now reading @bostonglobe.com @jeffjacoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/o... - let’s not forget that commuting by bike is FUN! I showed up energetic and ready to teach with a packet of articles on #congestionpricing #UrbanEcon #GoBeacons.

@bostonglobe.com spot on again. I explain the idea of the costs of inclusionary zoning in my class every semester and I can never get it out this clearly. Let’s have a mayoral debate about housing! (And possibly the commercial vacancy rate). #BuildMABuild

Very proud of myself for finally making my own website. Thank you #chatgpt for making it relatively painless! kerenhornecon.com

Amazing work to create a valuable new resource for housing scholars by @johninfranca.bsky.social and large team of researchers! 🙏 Also highlights the importance of #MBTACommunities which is focused on legalizing multi-family development in more of the state. #BuildMABuild #MAPoli

Anyone know anything about this innovation hub? Anyone in the UMass system connected? Seems like a perfect moment to make a connection as I rethink all my teaching/assessment materials for this fall.

Stunning #ADU in #MetroWest - glad to learn about what some are building under this new policy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m... I wonder what the local reception has been of these new units? #MassPoli #BuildMABuild www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...

We need to take this seriously in Boston when considering how costly Wu’s move to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild

#Boston mayoral primary should be focused on this - how do we get more housing built here? Thank you @andrewbrinker.bsky.social for your continued detailed coverage. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/30/b... Bringing #IDP back down to 13% feels like a reasonable first step. #BuildMABuild

Thank you @kate-sinding-daly.bsky.social for helping me start my day on a positive note. Keeping this quiet but not too quiet. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/offs... #MAPoli #WindEnergy via @cwbeacon.bsky.social

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/b... Great #DataViz from @andrewbrinker.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com. Clarification - in my quote on the type of housing we allow I was referencing #MBTACommunities and the importance of legalizing multi-family in ALL communities. #BuildMABuild #MAYIMBY #MAPoli

That feeling when…. you know you’re a #YIMBY but totally feeling like a #NIMBY #MaPoli #BosPoli

mobileapp.bostonglobe.com/06022025_07d... - As an employee at a largely state funded university @umassboston.bsky.social I think about this a lot. We have no mechanism tying our hiring to the interests of the state? I think my colleagues would argue this would be a violation of academic freedom…

This is a fabulous idea - #NewEnglandScienceFund #NESF @massgovernor.bsky.social interested? @jebyrnes.bsky.social - I am pretty sure @bostonglobe.com would publish an oped on this?

And now I wonder this even more…

I’ll read anything @bostonglobe.com writes about #TrainDaddyEng - Just the feel good story I needed to start my day. #MAPoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/m...

I saw @waymo.bsky.social mapping this weekend and thought exactly this. As someone who runs, bikes, drives through #KCircle regularly I wholeheartedly agree. No software could figure out this chaos. Maybe it’s time we paint some lines on the road?!? #BosPoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/l...

💯 @ashishkjha.bsky.social. Beautiful paragraph about the #UrbanAgglomeration in #KendallSquare. As federal funds dwindle how can we help support the innovators that fuel our city’s success? @massgovernor.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...

My youngest bike rider! Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov for this amazing infrastructure. Fun ride with a great destination. #Boston

Great #DataViz from Marc Zao-Sanders at #HarvardBusinessReview. Trying very hard to use it for enhanced learning and not replacing learning. Also re fun/non-sense I am using AI to plan my family summer trip. I asked ChatGPT - which of these two hikes would my boys prefer. 😂 hbr.org/2025/04/how-...

Welcome to #Boston #Lego! Are we fun yet?!? www.nbcboston.com/news/local/g... Thank you to my #UrbanEcon student for sharing some good news!

Great answer to a complicated question @andrewbrinker.bsky.social “If people are leaving #MA why aren’t prices going down?” Demand still outstrips supply - Saving this for fall #UrbanEcon www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/14/b...

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Welcome to the MBTA Communities club Marblehead!! Congratulations to the Marblehead Housing Coalition, a pro-housing group formed after the 2024 town meeting, on an incredible get out the vote effort! May 2024 Yes: 377 No: 410 May 2025 Yes: 951 No: 759 🎥 @mhdcurrent.bsky.social

This is such a good example of the lefts inability to adopt an #Abundance agenda and why conservatives are positioned to steal abundance (think Texas huge solar production). Our own congressman in the midst of a housing crisis calls to prevent new housing 😡 commonplace.org/2025/04/28/s... #MaPoli

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

If you have family/friends that like to beat up on libs this may be helpful. MA sent more than $5k per capita to federal government than it received according to @alexjamesfitz.com at Axios www.axios.com/2025/02/12/s... #MAPoli

#Abundance here in #MA - 💯 I think key ingredient critical to current success of #MBTACommunities is —State sets the “what” (more housing) and communities decide the “how” (where should multifamily districts be located). See @amydain.bsky.social #upzoneupdate for real time tracking #MAYIMBY #MAPoli

I love this revisionist read of Jane Jacobs. Very useful addition to any #Abundance conversation. #MAYIMBY

At first I thought I would totally disagree with @suzanneblier.bsky.social when I saw this headline. But after reading I think these are reasonable suggestions. I am very much a #MAYIMBY but it’s not a silver bullet and we need to be open to solid critiques of new and very ambitious policies.

@govmaurahealey.bsky.social @massago.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov This is how we fight back and win - #MAYIMBY. Thank you @mattyglesias.bsky.social for your clear and thoughtful arguments. Clearly this is the better way. #MAPoli #BosPoli #Abundance open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

Wow - important context on how much things are about to change.

My favorite #Abundance politician #MAPoli

How do people not see that these are conflicting ideas?

Amazing monday morning news. #MAPoli #Transit

Struggling here - anyone reviewing this paper? Is the way to think about this that all places allow single family building and they are measuring impacts on single family homes? But we should be thinking about making apartments illegal and the implications for rents? @mattyglesias.bsky.social #YIMBY

Ok #YIMBYs - Thoughts? #SupplySkeptics #UrbanEcon

Love this visualization from @home-economics.bsky.social - Here in #MA we’re “Coastal Calibrators”

Thank you @mattyglesias.bsky.social - I’ve had this conversation a million times but have not been able to express this point so clearly. #MAYIMBY #BuildMABuild #MAPoli

Ok #YIMBYs - Thoughts? #SupplySkeptics #UrbanEcon

So exciting. #MaPoli

My copy arrived yesterday. I don’t love the cover but I love the opening chapter. The rich description of American abundance is exactly the inspiration I need right now. Thank you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social - Anyone else reading right away? Book club to discuss?

share.libbyapp.com/title/2766628 Just finished this and cannot recommend it enough. After listening to #MoneyBall because of my kiddos love of sports I decided to give this one a listen too. A wonderful distraction from the insanity of the day. #EconSky #BehavioralEcon @michaellewis65.bsky.social