Christine Schudde
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she/her. Writing about housing, neighborhoods and small cities here: www.neighboring.substack.com.
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Clint Smith
4 months ago
But for the arbitrary nature of birth and circumstance, any of us could be living in poverty, dependent upon assistance to put food on the table, to take our children to the doctor, and to pull ourselves out of debt. The lack of empathy, the pure callousness on display in this bill, is infuriating.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
4 months ago
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.
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I understand that the perception of safety doesn't always match the reality, but I sure haven't heard many people talk about the across-the-board decline in crime the past year. It's almost as if some folks prefer the narrative of a big scary city in decline...
www.timesunion.com/news/article...
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Sheehan, Cox hail Albany crime decreases
Violent crime is down 14% and property crime down more than a quarter, according to statistics released by the city on Monday.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/sheehan-cox-hail-albany-crime-decreases-20367890.php
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Robert Reich
5 months ago
-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.
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During a tough week, it's amazing to see these
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photos from the National Day of Action on Housing 🎉
shelterforce.org/2025/05/22/p...
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Photos: In Over a Dozen Cities, Housing Activists Connect HUD Cuts and Local Issues
Tenants and housing advocates across the country took to the streets for a National Day of Action on Housing.
https://shelterforce.org/2025/05/22/photos-in-over-a-dozen-cities-housing-activists-connect-hud-cuts-and-local-issues/
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Looking through my drafts folder, it’s clear there is so much opportunity to create the housing and cities we want. It’s also clear to me, this week in particular, how steep the hill in front of us is.
neighboring.substack.com/p/listen-thi...
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Listen, this uphill battle for housing is daunting
Reflecting on the tax reconciliation bill and other federal actions
https://neighboring.substack.com/p/listen-this-uphill-battle-for-housing
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Times Union
6 months ago
An estimated 1.2 million residents could see their health coverage slashed and New York’s economy could take an $11 billion hit if a federal spending measure wending through Congress advances, according to projections released this week by New York health officials.
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1.2M New Yorkers could lose health coverage under federal cuts
State health officials, hospital groups released the projections as federal wrangling continues over a Congressional spending package.
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/1-2-million-new-yorkers-lose-health-coverage-20331085.php
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HANDS OFF! NOW
6 months ago
Ash-Lee Henderson: What you can do right now is you can text NOCUTS to 70303...[spread the word] like lives depend on it because they absolutely do.
@workingfamilies.org
@ashdashlee.bsky.social
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"If your household makes over $1 million, you'll get a $90,000 tax break. If you're in the bottom 20% of income-earners, you'll get $90 and have your healthcare and food assistance cut."
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About half of Habitat’s newest neighbors over the past 10 years are immigrant families & we are so lucky to have them in our community. Protect immigrant families — pass
#NY4All
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#DignityNotDetention
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Working Families Party 🐺
6 months ago
Last week, Newark's mayor was arrested while visiting an ICE facility. Trump is silencing those who hold him accountable. At the same time, Congress is trying to pass a bill that increases ICE's capacity by $175 billion. Hear what we can do to stop it:
wfpus.org/fromnewark
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From Newark to All: We Stand Together · Working Families Power
On Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested in handcuffs after attempting to visit a recently re-opened ICE detention facility. ICE shoved members of the Congressional delegation which included…
https://wfpus.org/fromnewark
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merritt
6 months ago
doodle. write poems you never show anyone. make banana bread. take pictures of birds. grow a plant. the goal isn’t to build job skills or “become a creative” it’s to just fool around and experience yourself and the world around you
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Signed up and really looking forward to this conversation about social housing.
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So grateful for the Jane Jacobs Walk Albany. Another beautiful walk with people who love our city and are curious about how to make it even better. Links, photos & such at
janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/thank-you-...
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Thank you!
Grateful for our 2nd Jane Jacobs Walk Albany! Resources & photos...
https://janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/thank-you-db2
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A rainy, delightful
#JaneJacobsWalk
was had today in downtown Albany! We talked about I-787, Albany’s oldest Dutch building, the “parking lot district”, the Empire State Plaza & more. New friends! Old friends! Merriment all around.
#JaneJacobsWalkAlbany
#JanesWalk
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺
6 months ago
Try volunteering once a month (or once a quarter) at a library, Habitat for Humanity, or a local soup kitchen. You deserve to feel good. Good about yourself, and good about the world around you. What other advice would you give someone trying to fight isolation?
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The weather outlook is uncertain, but we’ll still be at Stacks Espresso at 1pm for the Jane Jacobs Walk in downtown Albany! Deets here:
janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/weather-up...
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Weather update - see you at 1pm!
And Happy Birthday to Jane Jacobs!
https://janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/weather-update-see-you-at-1pm
6 months ago
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Amazing impact from a fairly simple change to the zoning ordinance to allow for more density!
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Joined 1k+ folk in Albany rallying to protect unions, public schools, affordable housing, immigrant and worker rights!
#MayDayStrong
#MayDay2025
#workingfamiliesparty
@workingfamilies.org
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Reading
@jennitaur.bsky.social
Jenny Odell and fighting back against nostalgia:
neighboring.substack.com/p/imagine-th...
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Imagine that you were born at the exact right time
Reading Jenny Odell and fighting back against nostalgia
https://neighboring.substack.com/p/imagine-that-you-were-born-at-the
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My org has hosted dozen of AmeriCorps & we have two alumni on staff. Our last NCCC team joined us in March 2020 & were soon demobilized due to Covid-19. AmeriCorps is a vital program representing the highest virtues of service & community.
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Make the Road NY
6 months ago
Immigrant rights are workers’ rights. And workers’ rights are immigrant rights. Let’s stand together. Let’s fight together. Let’s win together. ¡Sí se puede!
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May 1 is a day of action. We're coming together in Albany to demand justice, equity, and dignity for all workers. Let's build a future where our families thrive over fortunes. ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻 ALBANY MAY DAY RALLY Thu 5/1 at 5pm by Albany Med:
www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
#MayDay2025
#MayDayStrong
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Windy but beautiful evening for a spring cleanup in the neighborhood!
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I spent time yesterday with
@momsdemand.bsky.social
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@marchforourlives.bsky.social
to advocate for commonsense gun safety laws in NY. What an honor to watch high schoolers in action to prevent gun violence and making such passionate and eloquent cases to our lawmakers.
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I'm looking forward to tonight's book talk with
@liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org
: "This book offers not only a powerful examination of the past, but a roadmap for how we ignite a new era of movement-building and democratic awakening."
www.eventbrite.com/e/albany-ny-...
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Albany NY - You Only Get What You're Organized To Take
Come for the book, stay for the movement!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/albany-ny-you-only-get-what-youre-organized-to-take-tickets-1302442032179
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One week away from our 2025 Jane Jacobs Walk in downtown Albany, NY! Join us Sun 5/4 for a community-led walking conversation.
#janejacobswalkalbany
#janejacobswalk
#janeswalk
#albanyny
janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/one-week-a...
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One week away!
Jane Jacobs Walk Albany is on Sunday, May 4th in downtown Albany
https://janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/one-week-away
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Americans for Tax Fairness
6 months ago
CBO research just found that Trump's tax cuts would LOWER incomes by $4,400 per person by 2055. Meanwhile, the richest 10% get a trillion-dollar payday. This is literally not how you fix an economy.
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Happy Peak Magnolia Earth Week to all who celebrate.
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Join us for a Jane Jacobs Walk in downtown Albany! 🗓️ Sunday 5/4 🕐 1 - 2:30pm 📍 Stacks Espresso, 433 Broadway We’ll meet at Stacks & then head out together for a community-led walking conversation 💜
janejacobswalkalbany.substack.com/p/jane-jacob...
#janejacobswalk
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7 months ago
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LINKS: 🔴 May Day events:
maydaystrong.org
🚨 Kilmar Abrego Garcia petition:
wearecasa.org/updates/dema...
📢 Recess actions:
indivisible.org/muskorus
☎️ Recess phonebanks:
www.mobilize.us/wfpower/even...
✊ Medicaid Union:
communitychangeaction.org/medicaidunion
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7 months ago
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I'm on this call and dropping links on behalf of WFP in the YouTube chat tonight. Come find me and learn what's next! Text HANDSOFF to 70303 to stay in the loop.
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I was on a call today about Habitat for Humanity's work to improve housing in refugee camps in Jordan, to secure land access for families in Malawi & implement sanitation projects in Ugandan informal settlements. A nice reminder of the good work that neighbors are doing around the globe 💙
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Housing justice for Albany-area renters 👏🏻
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Americans for Tax Fairness
7 months ago
Republicans have started the process to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and education to fund tax breaks for the rich. But they still have to write the bill. That means we have time to make this an impossible vote for them to take. It's time to tell everyone you know about this tax scam.
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On the small, sweet community gatherings I crave: “Give me the humble grassroots meeting of five people sharing a casserole or tray of oatmeal cookies. There’s nothing better.”
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Small community
Craving humble and unfussy community gatherings
https://neighboring.substack.com/p/small-community
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Working Families Party 🐺
7 months ago
remindderrrrrrr you have a few days left to get your no one likes a billionaire sticker and support the building of a third party for the people
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"Hope is hard, hope is cringe, hope leaves you open for critique from somebody cooler and more jaded. It’s easier to proclaim that none of this will amount to anything, that we aren’t made of sufficiently dictator-toppling stuff."
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Absolutely Petrify Ng
7 months ago
Listen, I have had "embarrassingly sincere" in my bio for 10+ years, I could not agree more. Love stuff. Show you love it.
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"But it turns out families talk about more at the kitchen table than the price of groceries. They talk about what kind of state, and what kind of nation, they want to live in."
www.thebulwark.com/p/wakeup-cal...
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A Wakeup Call in Wisconsin
And a much needed one at that.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/wakeup-call-wisconsin-democrat-supreme-court-booker-crawford-booker-filibuster-musk?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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And for developers of affordable homes - like Habitat for Humanity - this cost increase spells disaster, because they can't (& wouldn't!) pass that cost onto the buyer. At my Habitat affiliate, we're subsidizing ~$150k to close the gap between the cost to build and an affordable purchase price.
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Outstanding. That's how you run a ground game and connect with actual voters on issues that matter to them. 👏👏👏
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Ida Bae Wells
7 months ago
What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.
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My highly satisfying finished embroidery stitch sampler book, made as part of a
Creativebug.com
daily practice. Small joys 🪡
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Amazing energy, incredible impact in a close race. Feels good to DO SOMETHING, you know?
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We had 125 people on our WI
@workingfamilies.org
phone bank last night: “I’m so glad to see us working together. This is what democracy looks like!” “Thank you WFP - training was excellent. Support was excellent. So good to support democracy this way!”
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