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Usually, voter-file data.

I don't have a 202 #, but it's not ours, so I can't speak to who's gotten it or how it was targeted.

This is not ours, lol. I’d guess OpportunityDC if I had to.

are you kidding me

VIVRE EN VILLE EN ENGLISH. Adam is so cool. His organization is so cool. I am really excited that this exists, and very grateful that there is writing about housing like this out in the world, regardless of language:

Chairman Phil Mendelson needs to be asked (politely, personally, and not via click-to-sends) to schedule a hearing; other members could also be asked (politely, personally, and not via click-to-sends) to inquire if the chairman will be scheduling a hearing.

The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...

I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...

cleanse yr brain by listening to “judy staring at the sun” on your green line train home

I love the traveling Brompton!!!!!!! How wonderful.

This is a great short piece worth thinking about when it comes to transportation & urbanism.

“We cannot optimise both proximity and mobility. Proximity and Mobility cannot be friends. We settle into one of two worlds: (a) high proximity, low mobility or (b) high mobility, low proximity.”

All these Abundance/Argument/Searchlight etcetc arguments are so frustrating because we know anything that confirms prior beliefs like "Dems can't win on climate/immigration/trans/etcetc" are going straight into the Dem group chat bloodstream. Clearly that's what they want to hear.

lmao this thread

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it is not more complicated than this!

Payton didn't even need to be in the room for @justupthepike.bsky.social's and my yombotron session to succinctly describe it. bsky.app/profile/west...

Didn’t get to say it at Yimbytown but state capacity at its most basic would be something like…a full-time legislature with full-time staffing in every state.

You can still get a big cheap McMansion but your neighbors will want a race war and think knowing calculus is a sin. Your kids will be poorer than you if any of these policies the hooting morons who make up the electorate now want actually get passed. Do you take that Texas job offer now?

yes I am Yimbytown’s purveyor of Advil

And we off at yombocon. I’m on an 11 a.m. panel about transit advocacy’s relative losses moderated by my fellow AB, @amb.fyi, and a 2:15 p.m. very stacked looking-backwards-and-forwards history of the movement with longtime real ones Annemarie, Alan, Jesse, Brian, Jenny. Happy 2 be here.

Stan share the paper pls

In a working paper, my colleagues & I used statical analysis to understand TOPA’s impact on preservation. We found that it was incredibly effective in preserving both subsidized & unsubsidized affordable housing, particularly in areas where rents are increasing www.umdsmartgrowth.org/news/preserv...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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2025 beach week(s)

“if u get the right policy mix” never works at any level of government!!!!!! that anything-left funders and my fellow advocates and pundits and electeds and advisers don’t know this in their bones is continually so weird to me.

only a girl sometimes btw

Made it this far by skin of teeth, as those of you who watched me grow up on the old site know intimately. Celebrated with gnocchi at Porta, cocktails at Asbury Distilling, and friends from D.C. in Asbury Park. I’ll come home soon.

happy 36th birthday to me. who wants 2 hear me talk on three panels at yombocon.

Land use is inherently local! Even a strategy that works in one place (bipartisan coalition versus grassroots whatever versus electoral) is nearly impossible to map onto another! *That’s* hard. Being nice to the race-science freaks adds more problems to this!