The real answer--as adopted by progressive advocates around the country, and electeds from Pritzker to Johnson to Mamdani--is that getting rid of regulations that require million-dollar mansions and investing in affordable housing are complementary policies, not at odds with each other.

Chicago not showing up until #18 🙃

More like Loser Orbán

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

Many people are saying… www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/onli...

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

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It’s called an elevated train because it’s users are morally superior to drivers

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

Everyday in which the invasion of Chicago by a paramilitary organization hunting and abducting people for the color of their skin is not the lead story for national media is an abhorrent dereliction of their duty

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

My latest article is up at the @chicagopolicy.bsky.social. Congestion pricing — going well in NYC! Would also go well in CHI! But hey, it’s not like there are any local governments that could use an extra $1 billion/year in revenue around here 🤷‍♂️ @andrefor40th.bsky.social

"If Chicago wants to keep pace as one of America’s leading cities, it’s time for it to follow suit [NYC] and implement congestion pricing of its own." - @dtkoslovsky.bsky.social @chicagopolicy.bsky.social chicagopolicyreview.org/2025/10/22/t...

🚨🏡🏗️ I’m in A City That Works looking at a new housing study and its implications for Chicago. Minneapolis enacted major zoning reform in 2020 to combat rising housing costs. It worked, but not in the way most housing advocates would expect. It’s time for Chicago to follow Minneapolis’ lead.

I like this post because it recognizes that there's a push and a pull with new housing. There's a supply effect of new units pulling prices down, but also new amenities that make a place more desirable and push prices up. This is hard to disentangle IRL because new housing isn't randomly allocated.

More and more people are saying

Not bad for a hellhole

Guest contributor Daniel Koslovsky put on his policy analyst hat to write a quick cost-benefit analysis of saving Chicagoland transit from the $771M fiscal cliff, and investing $1.5B to improve service. @stevevance.net @betterstreetschicago.org @ctaction.org @chicagocta.bsky.social

I put together a quick-and-dirty cost-benefit analysis for fully funding the RTA over at @chi.streetsblog.org. Even under the most conservative plausible assumptions the benefits of funding transit still easily outweighed the costs. Check it out! chi.streetsblog.org/2025/08/26/a...

Op-ed: It won’t undo the discrimination rampant in our financial systems. But a new study suggests that rent reporting is an easy, evidence-based step in the right direction. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

🚨My latest @nextcity.org: New research from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that it’s time to enact rent reporting on a larger scale to promote financial inclusion for communities marginalized by the credit system. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Me and the boys liking every protest photo we see

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🚨New from me and my colleague Prabhdeen Kaur, @crainschicago.bsky.social: The evidence of harms from online sports betting is overwhelming and policymakers won’t be able to tax them away. www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/onli...

Drowning my RTA fiscal cliff sorrows in Sugar Moon

The thesis of this article, that BJ has failed because he’s too progressive, is extremely underpowered. It lists a bunch of management failures, tries to chalk them up to ideology, and then says “therefore progressives shouldn’t try to implement their agenda”

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.

Wow Chicago! #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne (🎥 Marco Foster)

We are so close to making Elon cry on tv

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

Please call your senators' DC office and demand they vote 'no' on the GOP funding bill this week If you are in Illinois Durbin 202.224.2152 Duckworth 202.224.2854

Yes! I am ready to follow *checks notes*… @michaelsteele.bsky.social ?!? through the gates of hell

It fucking rules living in a neighborhood with two train lines going through it

After *three years* of negotiations, Alderman Brian Hopkins has killed the 500 home development proposed at North and LaSalle in Old Town. The project would have included 💯 affordable homes in one of Chicago’s most expensive neighborhoods. Wondering why we have a housing crisis? Look no further.

All houses should be like the houses on Harper Ave

There will always be a way in which you can make the world a better place. Doesn't have to be big, just find something that you can do to make today better than yesterday was, and something to make tomorrow better than today. Focus on whatever that thing is, and pour your heart into it.

That’s right

again going to my bench of favorite complaints: it is weird how openly predatory US culture is and it would be good to have a government that feels some semblance of responsibility for people's wellbeing

Updating Chicago's residential zoning code to a minimum of RT-4 zoning will spur the construction and preservation of much needed “missing middle” housing, such as duplexes, triplexes, and small apartment buildings. Add your support today: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

Chicago people, the CTA has a survey about their strategic plan, take it. www.transitchicago.com/strategicplan/

Can’t believe how grim things have gotten and we’re still five weeks from inauguration. There is no resistance. Why? Because he narrowly won the popular vote?

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i am once again asking for 5 stories of housing to be built atop marianos

New transit study: Service frequency and coverage both drive ridership, but frequency matters more. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Financial decision making starter pack Happy to add you if you do research on consumer financial decision making, behavioral finance, pensions, saving, etc go.bsky.app/P6cGSdW

Where my fellow snow sickos at today? ☃️

This is a weird ass cubs game