Woah. The mayor said some WILD things about housing and homelessness. The ambition on sweeps is to make “the experience of folks during encampment removals better” and redirecting money for affordable housing to shelter is on the table. These are Sara Nelson policies. What a disappointment

Seattle voted to tax itself to create social housing. Somehow instead, we have a Seattle Social Housing Developer that will not build anything new for five years and intends to issue bonds, tying it to providing ROI to private investors

What an amazing event from Cedar Crossing Tenants Association that brought together a renters resources fair w/ @beseattleorg.bsky.social @houseourneighbors.bsky.social & more; cohosted by us & RNA; buy @jmaddenmass.bsky.social book, Bittersweet Lane; (audiobook is good!) borrow from @spl.org

Tomorrow night at 6pm, the Cedar Crossing Tenants Association and @sharethecities.bsky.social are hosting an event for renters featuring @jmaddenmass.bsky.social! We'll be there tabling and hope you'll come say hi! RSVP to save your seat at the link below

Damn the out of town cops sure are having fun in #Seattle after the #seahawks parade

Next Wednesday — for you, affordable housing tenants in the Seattle area — take light rail for a resource fair, food, community & hear from author @jmaddenmass.bsky.social about growing up in affordable housing & then helping buildings get built! Registration required - space is limited!

Are you an affordable housing resident in Bellwether Housing? We are cohosting an event on February 11th & would like to invite YOU to attend! This is hosted by the Cedar Crossing Tenants Association. We will have a book talk from @jmaddenmass.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...

Seattle, the Cedar Crossing Tenants Association and Share the Cities invited me to discuss Bittersweet Lane: Affordable Housing in America. Join us next Wednesday, February 11th www.eventbrite.com/e/cedar-cros...

Big thanks to Phinney Books who is supporting an event we are supporting, hosted by Cedar Crossing Tenants Association 📖 📣 @jmaddenmass.bsky.social We are excited to bring together the local neighborhood association, staff from @bellwetherhousing.bsky.social and local tenant rights groups! 1/3

If I had a magic wand, how would I fix #affordablehousing ? It's the three legged stool of money, permissions, and residents' rights. Because #housing is not a human right; it's a human necessity.

Health insurance went from $900/month to $2805/month. I don't know what to do.

It will be a tragedy if Seattle misses the opportunity to do social housing well www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Recap of last month's tour youtu.be/vObFHGLqdko Endless gratitude to the few hundred of you who came out in freezing cold to discuss how to solve our affordable housing crisis!

The federal government attacks on all fronts. This project (also featured in my book) is the type of work that can solve our housing crisis. That is why the feds attack it. Glad to see funding protected for now. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/12/b...

Use everything you have. Act and prepare now. Live in a condo? What's your HOA's policy on ICE and do your property managers have a process? On a PTA? What's your school's plan for an ICE raid? Youth sports? What's the plan to keep kids safe?

Next Thursday Seattle!

Highly recommend Bittersweet Lane by @jmaddenmass.bsky.social as he gets directly at this problem being so deeply intertwined with common law's roots: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...

Seattle! I'd like to invite you to the Seattle launch event for my memoir about affordable housing at Elliott Bay Books on Jan 15th 7pm with Maiko Winkler-Chin www.elliottbaybook.com/events/49063

Spending the evening with one of my favorite humans … (well, at least his voice … ) @jmaddenmass.bsky.social #BittersweetLane #NewBook Bittersweet Lane Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis By Jamie Madden www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...

Four years ago I put fingertips to keyboard to write a book about affordable housing. I want everyone to understand that we can fix this housing crisis. We know how. Today, that book is on shelves. Plus, audiobook fans, listen to me get nice with the blah blah blah open.spotify.com/show/5wLdd59...

Thank you to Keliis and the Fabulous 413 for having me on the radio yesterday! More Western Mass at Odyssey Books in South Hadley tonight!! play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Writers, keep at it. This week I'm touring for my book release. Last year I still didn't know if any of it would work out. www.authormagazine.org/articles/202...

People want this housing crisis fixed.

These results keep going up—widespread support in New York City for housing reforms. Now: #2 with 58% #3 with 57% #4 with 58%

Eastern RI and Southeastern Massachusetts, catch me in Jamestown Rhode Island on 12/8 www.eventbrite.com/e/bitterswee...

If you've let a low density, parking forward property at a neighborhood's primary intersection rot, maybe you share some blame for what's happened to it?

Can Democrats retake Congress if they blah blah blah? Wrong question. Can ordinary people retake Congress from a fascist party and a false opposition?

#Vermont and #NewHampshire join me on 11/19 and let's talk about the housing in crisis in rural and small towns

The DUCKS? You lost to the Anaheim ducking ducks!?

When Bruce Harrell pulled a gun on a pregnant woman over a parking spot he was 37 years old, which is about the same age Katie Wilson was when she helped write and pass Seattle's Jumpstart tax, which brings in $300-400 million a year

“Busses are the backbone of Seattle’s transportation system. They connect our neighborhoods. They get people to work in school. They reduce traffic congestion, cut emissions, and they are the most affordable way to get thousands of our neighbors around town.”

Western Mass! Come see me the day my book is released at Odyssey Books in South Hadley!

Katie Wilson, like many of us (including me) has struggled to pay the bills IN THIS CENTURY. I think people find it relatable that she has actually experienced Seattle's affordability challenges, which Harrell, as someone who has been very wealthy for decades, has not.

Connecticut! Join me on Nov 17 at Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport during the Connecticut Affordable Housing Conference. Community, conversation, agus craíc

Harrell represents a failed, 400 year old approach to housing

New York! Come talk housing with me on December 1 at Powerhouse Books in DUMBO powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

Wilson notes for the second time that Seattle is a national outlier on homelessness. "'Other cities need to do more' is not a homelessness plan for Seattle."

Calls for regionalism are in my experience always calls for predatory delay

My audiobook is available to pre-save! Please take 5 seconds to click it open.spotify.com/show/5wLdd59...

Hits shelves in less than a month! Pre-order now www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jami...

Seattle Mayor and Council keep defunding housing to buy goodies for cops. @publicola.bsky.social "Affordable Housing Tax Will Pay for Police Surveillance Instead" open.substack.com/pub/ericacba...

NEW: Amazon just fired a Palestinian worker. I'll give you one guess as to why... www.theburnerseattle.com/post/amazon-...

My northeast book tour is really coming together!! See you next month!

Housing is about to get yet more expensive www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Due to tariffs, stores in my hood aren't selling Irish beers anymore. Truly fascism's greatest horror

⏰ preorder this book from @jmaddenmass.bsky.social Spanning from Ireland to America, from the Bittersweet Lane Apartments to M.I.T., Bittersweet Lane also carries the stories and deep scars of intergenerational poverty while offering a bold vision for change. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...

Israeli forces have stopped 13 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, but 30 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, flotilla organisers said today

There's no challenge to power they won't condemn and no exercise of power they won't excuse.