#Housing

David Hulchanski

Hulchanski

#NationalHousingDay 2020Chronical 1/10Prior to impact of Covid-19 there were more unhoused Canadians & more people in serious housing need than ever before. In January the 1,000th name was added to

Kevin G. Honan

RepKevinHonan

Massachusetts’ eviction and foreclosure moratorium expired this past weekend. If you are a tenant, please know that there are resources in place right now to help you maintain your housing.

Droll Embiid.

GeeDee215

this feels...familiar.https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1300939997059493888 jokes aside...we're currently looking to buy a house. (it's not a situation i ever really figured i'd find myself in given where and how i grew up.) t

Zeke Cohen

Zeke_Cohen

Yesterday a constituent posted a video of Canton Waterfront Park with a few tents set up, tagging the Police Department, my office and a number of news stations asking if

Damien Goodmon

damienISgoodmon

It isnt rocket science. 2 understand y greasing wheels 4 market-rate development/redevelopment is counter-productive just look at how the market is working: "Cash sales make up around 40% of NYC’s

Arielle Sallai

ariellesallai

It’s peak LA real estate to take a charming, historic bar/restaurant beloved by the community & “integrate” it into a luxury development like this. Nothing is sacred as our neighborhoods

The Justice Collaborative

Justice_Collab

Today, The Justice Collaborative is announcing the release of the Emergency Action Plan for #COVID19.This is the biggest crisis of our lifetimes. But it’s also a moment of generational opportunity.

Alfred Twu

alfred_twu

Chinatown. The Tenderloin. SOMA. The Mission. These couple of square miles dominate the national housing discourse. Here YIMBY finds its biggest skeptics, & for good reason. Supply lowers rents regionally,

Tommy Thomson

Tommy_Tom2020

"Urban geographer whose research interests include housing policy, urban renewal, displacement, and social mix. Vancouver social historian and ethnographer."People read this self-description & assume I am left wing. I think

Municipal Dreams

MunicipalDreams

1/ THREAD. What did the London County Council ever do for us? ‘Housing Londoners, 1945-60’ suggests quite a lot (with special thanks to @LCCmunicipal) for supplying my copy). For a

Matt Haney

MattHaneySF

I cannot support this proposal as written, which would rely on a massive expansion of permitted tent camps, that lack adequate services or a pathway to housing, & that have

Sanna Ali

sannasideup

Stanford is leaving grad students in even more precarious positions mid-pandemic by leaving funding up to departments. Not guaranteeing summer funding across the board was always a problem. With Covid-19,

Zaddy Aang 🧦🌐🔰🌹

SocksxMC

A study from the Journal of Public Economics on the effect of vacancy taxes in municipalities in France. Evidence suggests that they work; vacancy rates decreased by 13% in the

HAMSMaRT

HAMSMArTeam

We're grateful for support of @TheSpec Editorial Board "So what is the solution here? Removing encampments is dealing with a symptom, not the problem. What is more it doesn’t work,

ground-truther 😷 👑🦠😷

SonjaTrauss

Hi everyone I have a philosophical question. Maybe it’s a literature question. Maybe it’s impossible to answer. In the public conversation, people trade stylized facts with each other. For example:

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almondlove2

I keep writing and deleting angry tweets about Prop B passing, I feel terrible for the pain that is about to come down on those who are already having a