A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects. 2023 paper haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

No one would be talking about the Epstein files today without the work of Julie Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald. Her 2018 series is an incredible read and helped lead to his arrest. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a... Subscribe to your local newspaper!

If you think the origins of a pipe cannot make for compelling investigative reporting, boy do I have a story for you

Something that’s making me hopeful is that Maine is attempting to put universal healthcare on the ballot next year. The former CDC director is also running for Governor. Feels like a perfect combo. mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/29/w...

“The Economic Policy Institute projects 861,000 U.S.-born construction workers could lose jobs if mass deportations continue.” www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

“The Economic Policy Institute projects 861,000 U.S.-born construction workers could lose jobs if mass deportations continue.” www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.

We say it every single year: Oregon desperately needs kicker reform. This money could be going to schools, building homes, transit, filling potholes, building sidewalks and bikeways, and so much more www.opb.org/article/2025...

Another example of a family living in a camper to avoid falling into homelessness. They lost their government benefits then their housing. As this situation multiplies across the country, this solution remains illegal almost everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

this is so heinous

The Economic Policy Institute concluded that if the Trump administration meets its goal of deporting 4 million people by the end of 2028, 1.4 million immigrants who work in the construction industry would be lost. www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...

Last night the city council of Gresham, OR (pop 115k, Oregon's fourth-largest) voted unanimously to repeal costly parking mandates citywide, effective Dec 4. 23 Oregon cities now have zero parking mandates. Join the @parkingreform.org to bring this to your community! (1/2)

Researchers found that people with early, presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease who walked 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day delayed their cognitive decline by three years in comparison to those who walked less. Read more: https://wapo.st/3LLQjpl

I had a flight in Newark caught up in this. Waited 1.5hrs on the tarmac waiting to take off. I can get anxious when travel plans go sideways, but this time I felt really calm. I support the FAA. I support holding the line for healthcare. Worst case I go on a train adventure.

Relieved that no community centers in Portland will be immediately closing, but still angry at the bureau leadership & city councils who got us to this point where we don’t have money for basic operations & maintenance. I want better for my city.

Friends, you have three hours to get those ballots to a ballot box. Make it so.

Happy Monday-after-daylight-savings-time. I love this one day of the year where changing the clock system becomes politically viable for ~24 hours before being largely forgotten about again.

Happy Halloween #statsky (and #rstats)

🚨 100 US cities have now fully abolished parking mandates citywide! Shreveport, Louisiana, pushed the count to the 100th mark! It also became the first city in Louisiana to entirely abolish parking mandates! parkingreform.org/mandates-map...

Reuveni interview: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

take the good news wherever you can get it

"Please tell me which direction the parade went; after all, I'm leading it." Louis Lomax used this metaphor to describe the established leadership of the civil rights movement in 1962. Whenever I feel upset about how we landed here, I think of it and feel a dash of hope about whats to come.

Citizenship does not prevent you from being handcuffed by ICE. News from a weekend raid at a construction site in Gresham, Oregon.⬇️ www.opb.org/article/2025...

What crime can you possibly be committing while playing a clarinet? Just checked with friends in this band and she is still in custody with zero charges listed.

"It was not clear exactly why ICE detained him. He does not appear to have an Alaska criminal record."

Urgent PDX News alert: Llamas are available to take photos with until 1:30PM. Lobby of the big pink building.

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Reporting live from the war zone of Portland: Legal, low cost housing options that other cities are still dreaming about.

Reporting live from the war zone of Portland: Legal, low cost housing options that other cities are still dreaming about.

I’ll end this by actually sharing the Mercury article, lol.

I haven’t slept well since I saw photos of the Chicago apartment raid. Imagine waking up to exlplosions in the middle of the night, being dragged out of bed. When you are “released” hours later your furniture, belongings…gone. Now these goons are in my city. 🤮

In good news, I got this book just in time to bring to Shoup’s memorial service at UCLA tomorrow. Very special that he got to read & edit these essays in tribute to his work before he passed away last year. 🥹

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Another case of a US citizen with a specialized skills in homebuilding being detained without cause at their construction site.

See you there! 👋

"If this can happen in broad daylight to an American senior citizen who committed no crime, it can happen to anyone."

A 79-year-old Los Angeles business owner has filed a $50 million federal administrative claim alleging he was body-slammed & detained by ICE during a raid at his Van Nuys car wash earlier this month. He suffered multiple broken ribs, elbow injuries & a brain injury. abcnews.go.com/US/79-year-u...

Saw two ponies with unicorn horns at the food cart pod today ❤️🌈🦄 #Portland

One week ago, Ayman Soliman was released from ICE detention and his legal asylum status was reinstated. Immigration officials concluded that they didn’t have a case for revoking his status as a refugee. He spent 72 days in the Butler County Jail.

This graf does so much work. @nytimes.com #Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

I was so taken with the story of Kilmar's accidental (?) deportation last spring that I set up a google news alert to stay up to date on his case. This is what came up today. ESWANTINI. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“This is a one way trip”

Cannot stress this enough, the black population is actually growing in the areas of the black community inside areas with housing growth.

Excellent example of why WA legislators are passing statewide zoning reforms.

Seems like a good time to remind people that the censorship & arrest of a rock band was one of the pivotal moments that ultimately led to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

i'm SO excited for this housing option, esp in some of our most expensive and exclusive cities! my colleague catie w 3 stories of housing hope:

Good morning to the triple deckers of New Haven. May they be legal to build everywhere.

Four years ago, Portland did something almost no other city has: made it legal to live in a backyard home on wheels. Today at @sightline.org, @citizen-cate.bsky.social has three stories of the consequences. www.sightline.org/2025/09/11/h...

In 2021, Portland: Neighbors Welcome organized our volunteer base to support the Shelter to Housing Continuum project, which included reforms to legalize tiny homes on wheels. @sightline.org's @citizen-cate.bsky.social shares the impact it's having - and the affordable homes it's providing.

TIMELINE CLEANSE Residential dwellings <$100k are not just possible, they are being installed *right now* in Portland, Oregon, thanks to the 2021 legalization of homes-on-wheels. www.sightline.org/2025/09/11/h...