A new op-ed from CHPC’s @hslatkin.bsky.social in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social illuminates how misunderstanding of rent-stabilized apartment data is contributing to a mounting financial crisis in the housing New York City's low-income residents rely on. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...

Ironic, isn’t it?

This may be hard, but it isn’t complicated. Political violence is intolerable. Political rhetoric that stokes violence - by vigilantes or agents of the state - is a tool of political violence, and is intolerable. Condemn and reject all leaders who stir the pot of political violence.

This would be daylight robbery of NYC’s democratic process.

Reads like the statute guiding the actions of the Charter Commission. If you feel like the Charter Commission has failed to meet that standard, you'd sue the charter commission and force them to redraft the questions — which were published two months ago, fwiw. BOE as an end-run is baaaaaaaaaaad.

Let’s be clear about what’s being cooked up here: A handful of officials say they’ll defend the integrity of the public review process for housing by … unlawfully suppressing a legitimate voter referendum created through months of public hearings. Burying democratic integrity with political dirt.

This is NYC’s equivalent of a phone call to the Board of Elections demanding they find 11,270 votes. It’s a five-alarm fire for democracy and honoring election laws. Don’t let the BoE deprive New Yorkers of a vote they’re entitled to. And shame on anyone who allies with them against democracy.

Republicans on NYC's Board of Elections think they can illegally overrule ballot questions—or at least delay for long enough that the questions can't be printed on ballots. Signal boost, send emails, and help us stop them:

Compassionate conservatives, where are you now www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/b...

The @mta.info ought to do something about the widespread glitches in the info about transfers that’s posted on the LED boards in subway cars. No, you can’t transfer from the R to the L in all these stations. I see these glitches all the time. Let’s help out tourists and visitors.

Excellent piece from Samantha Magistro of Bronx Pro in the Commercial Observer. The Adams administration’s retreat from commitments to build Haven Green is an ominous signal to the partnerships that drive NYC’s creation of affordable housing. commercialobserver.com/2025/07/new-...

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I’m finding this Independence Day a time to reflect on the society we aspire to. In order to create it, we must be able to imagine it. Some thoughts. /1

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

USDA funding was gutted and now the honeybees we need for food are being devastated by a crisis that scientists knew was coming but were powerless to stop An extremely alarming tale of what happens when you don't have sufficient foresight and state capacity: www.science.org/content/arti...

GOP reconciliation bill's effects: —Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes —Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000 —12 m people become uninsured —3.2 m people lose food stamps —US stops its efforts to combat climate change —$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps

The evil bill is on its way to the House. Cancelled our events at home for the week and just got to DC. I’m getting ready to debate. Please help us stop this. Link below 👇🏾 indivisible.org/stopthecuts

I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/

Invisible in the foreground of this article is the city’s regulated affordable housing - the units financed specifically to be affordable to low-income New Yorkers - whose owners, government, nonprofit, for-profit, are struggling to cover operating costs. www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis says Trump's mega-bill is bad for North Carolina: "This will force the state to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population, and even reducing critical services for those in the traditional Medicaid population."

Thread — find your state, call your reps

Senate Republicans dropped a nearly 1,000-page “Big Beautiful Bill” in the DEAD OF THE NIGHT. And they want to vote on it TODAY. Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.

In the Quinnipiac poll The “big beautiful bill” has 29% approval. Meanwhile ICE is 39/56

A new Fox News poll on the "One Big Beautiful Bill":

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

Note: this is a housing policy post, not a politics post. But a quote like this highlights a common blind spot in the public conversation. If housing policy focuses only on keeping rents low but not also on paying the costs of operating, it’s going to hurt the tenants it’s trying to help. A 🧵: /1

The Adams administration, evidently under new management, appears to have begun dismantling its remarkable affordable housing legacy. How much further will it go to destroy what it has created? /1 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/23/e...

Randy Mastro's announcement this morning that the City was abandoning the construction of 123 units of senior housing in SoHo/NoHo has created a new scourge that I'll call ZOMBYism. It's NIMBYism from beyond the grave. /1

In case you were wondering: it’s unprecedented to see the negation of a public land use approval and City development commitment based on a back-room signing of an IOU written on a napkin by officials who are highly unlikely to be there to fulfill any commitments they gesture at emptily today

Satire’s last stand I stand with you

“Job Garcia, a doctoral student, was picking up an order at Home Depot. He texted his brother Elias Garcia: ‘Hey Elias me agarro ICE,’ it read. ICE got me. “Elias has not been able to talk to his brother to find out why he was arrested. “Job is a U.S. citizen.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

“This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes ... Already we are hearing stories of innocent fathers and mothers being wrongly deported, with no recourse to appeal.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“Far from being broken, New York is fundamentally a miracle” ✊🗽🫡

Lander is incorrect that a judicial warrant is required (only an administrative warrant), but ICE refuses even to show him that, which is outrageous. If they have a warrant, they should show it. If they don't, they don't have arrest authority. But him holding on to the guy... could be trouble.

HUGELY Important.

Restricting rents without the ability to manage costs creates a growing financial gap. Leaving this gap unfilled leaves affordable housing in tatters - hurting most the residents who rely on it. It’s happened before, and it’s happening again. Read more: citylimits.org/opinion-nycs...

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Regardless of who owns affordable housing, when costs exceed revenues, owners can’t deliver the residential environment residents need and deserve. Read our op-ed in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social about NYC’s “antisocial housing” problem. citylimits.org/opinion-nycs...

So “states’ rights” wasn’t just coded white supremacy, it also wasn’t states’ rights at all

Waiting for the President, or any members of his party, to vociferously condemn the shootings of two Minnesota state legislators.

That arc toward justice won't bend itself

NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990. In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.* Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.

So who was it that cancelled the nuclear deal with Iran?

Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits for the rich. The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“I’ve never seen anything that simultaneously really goes after poor people and then really helps rich people." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Amazing piece in @hellgatenyc.com today about why Haven Green needs to be built. They didn't interview nearby celebrity homeowners. They interviewed seniors with housing needs. With the best. Kicker. Ever. From Janice, age 83: 1/2

"Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18% YouGov / June 9, 2025

New Yorkers aren’t “bracing” for protests. We embrace freedom of assembly and the right to speak out peacefully in opposition to government actions. Together, local law enforcement and demonstrators will keep it peaceful. There is no pretext for military belligerence. This is how democracy works.