In the last six weeks, the Tenant Union Federation launched seven (7) majority tenant unions, across five (5) states, representing 1000 units of housing owned by Capital Realty Group, a New York-based corporate landlord. The first portfolio organizing of its kind... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I promise you that E. Klein doesn't have a clue as to how to get anyone out of this current fascist predicament. He really doesn't and he is demonstrating it in public for any sentient being being to see. You follow his lead at your peril and everyone else's. Don't be misled.

I think more smart people should be clear that "cultural issues" are really just labor discipline and therefore not distinct from "economic issues".

If there's one piece of research that came out in the last year that I think all housers should read, it is probably this brief. *Affordable AND available* and the need for more income-restricted *deeply* affordable housing for those most vulnerable to housing instability, eviction, & homelessness.

"the era of landlordism should be brought to a responsible close" Michael E. Stone (1993).

On fascism and racism, Langston Hughes said, "Fascism preaches the creed of Nordic supremacy." He also noted, "Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America... This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black."

Yeah, no. I am not anti-abundance (with a small a), but if the capital-A Abundance "movement" keeps platforming nazis (or goes on their podcasts like one of the authors of the book did) in some quest for "bipartisanship" especially at *this* point in time? FFS.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

This statement alone is enough to nullify any and all obligations to accept the legitimacy of his authority.

at least all the braindead takes will be in one place now

This is the first explanation I've seen that makes clear that the terminations are on-their-face illegal. National media would have us believe there is far more untested statutory or Constitutional grey area about a variety of issues than there actually is.

I see that the YIMBY/Abundance crowd still loves to rely primarily on non-peer-reviewed working papers from economists in order to support their nonsense rather than looking at the mountain of actually peer-reviewed work showing that corporate landlords are, in fact, as bad as many assume them to be

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

This is so fun. www.bostonherald.com/2025/08/12/e...

Favorite books in the last 10-15 years on equitable urban development? Prefer wider ranging books to narrower ones (eg, those focusing on transit, urban design, environmental sustainability). Some attention to affordable housing and equitable economic development preferred. Prefer US focus. Thanks!

Housing markets =*local*! Ofc institutional single-family rental (SFR) investors aren't big % nationally, but own large % of (SFRs) in some metros: e.g., Atlanta: 25% Jacksonville: 22% Charlotte: 18% & b/c they target certain *parts* of metros, means even larger %s in many parts of these metros.

I hear this a lot but it's not really accurate and is, a best an unhelpful over-simplification. Yes it is true that on the margins, lower supply raises profits for investors, but it neglects a lot of realities on the ground about how private equity and REITS operate and where they invest. 🧵 1/

This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...

I feel like this is a clear succinct statement of Trumpism, or at least one central strand of it. It is about reasserting the authority of the bosses over their "talent".

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

I am once again asking where are the planning reviews of Abundance? This silence is going to make me do it and no one will like that.

Professor Eric Seymour @ericseymour.bsky.social found higher #corporate ownership rates of small, 1- to 4-unit properties appear in a range of #NJ municipalities, including Trenton, New Brunswick, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, and Newark. policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

NEW: Approximately 1hr after I submitted an inquiry to Richmond Police Department asking if the city's Flock Safety ALPR data had been shared with/accessed by feds, a spokesperson issued a statement acknowledging an ATF "analyst" in June "had made queries for immigration enforcement." Full release:

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

I got (a photo) published in an academic publication. A picture I took on my Olympus XA2 film camera during a bike ride accompanies a wonderful piece about LA and Palestine. @challengeineq.bsky.social pub Insurgent Ground can be found here: escholarship.org/uc/item/6mf8...

It's been online for awhile, but I'm excited that this article with @eloralee.bsky.social @drkatehowell.bsky.social and @benfteresa.bsky.social is now in a printed issue. "A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

I am absolutely disgusted that the Trump Administration has coerced my former professor Jim Ryan into resigning as President of UVA. From afar, I had my concerns with how he handled Gaza solidarity protests (though not one's shared by Pam Bondi), but Jim is a profoundly decent person,...1/

In case folks missed it, many UVa departments, including mine, posted this statement on our websites a month or two ago:

Academic leaders don't know how to challenge authority. Their rise in academic administration is in part due to them being good at following orders.

Many ways to structure & operate "public" groceries, & most of the critiques are really unimaginative (not surprising since solidarity economies, etc work & lit is ignored). Many models like publicly-supported cooperatives... partnering w/ existing local orgs that people already know & trust

It’s great for people who were skeptical to embrace Mamdani after he won the primary - welcome aboard! - but it’s extremely silly and transparent for people who loudly criticized the campaign to retroactively claim that he actually did everything they thought he should, and that that’s why he won

I'd suggest reading about the Defense Commissary Agency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense...

The impact of recessions and economic restructuring on residential construction firms really seems like a under-examined and important part of the story of declining rates of homebuilding since the 1970s. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Most transit agencies make very little money from transit fares. And fare collection costs money too! It requires investment, infrastructure, personnel, and enforcement.

Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit. Research suggests that free transit: a—increases ridership b—doesn't get people out of cars c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl d—doesn't add employment e—maybe ups operational efficiency

What evidence is there that free transit adds riders? Multiple studies of real programs, such as in Boston & Richmond, show that free transit means more riders on the lines that receive this treatment. www.boston.gov/sites/defaul... dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.... vcnva.org/wp-content/u...

In courses that are sized for this type of close instructor-student relationship, I do not need a fucking machine to tell me when or how students are engaged!!! That is the JOB!!!

I wonder if this type of reform doesn't read as "Abundance" for pundits and their spear carriers because the "villains" are not labor unions or environmentalists, but very often investor-owned utilities.

Young New Yorkers of every class, race and gender. This is truly your time. Come out tomorrow like you never have before and you'll have a much better shot of a future in this city if it's not run by Cuomo. You are needed to counter what Gen X and older are going to do.

happy Juneteenth… take this opportunity to liberate your mind from its assumption that the only reasonable option is electing centrist politicians who believe in nothing and will improve nothing

A robust anti-monopolist framework absolutely sees how capital uses state power to capture rents! It's twisted to say that anti-monopoly approach has more blindnessness than the chaotic concept of "abundance" which explicitly and paradoxically frames such state power as epiphenomenal yet causal.

Twenty years in education and I have seen so many things that were going to "save teachers time" and then it got weaponized into "if you don't use this, you're ruining your students' future" and usually when that mindless zealousness comes around it's less than a year for that tech to collapse.

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

Not that it isn’t obvious, but the “contentious” nature of Juneteenth may be the purest essence of the foundational anti-Black racism that lies at the heart of the American imagination. This should be a holiday that is even *greater* than July 4th. I think it would be disappointing for cities and

“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” she says. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”

why has no one here mentioned fare enforcement?

Really can’t be overstated how damning this result is of @levarstoney.bsky.social’s corporate-friendly, transparently transactional McAuliffe insider politics. After eight years of his dismal leadership in Richmond, the voters that knew him best decisively rejected his bid for higher office.

This is a fantastic video that documents in 2 minutes the challenges people with disabilities routinely face in using transit. Check out the proposed travel alternatives beginning at 1:40.