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My partner & I had brunch down by the Royal Albert Dock days after the 2024 election (before seeing Liverpool beat Villa). Our very young server was distraught for us. We were distraught too but also had a question we were too polite to ask: isn't yours the country that elected B**** J******?

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Graphic showing support for tenant rights among Marylanders, including fire safety measures (87%), Rent increase caps (78%), Good cause protections (75%) and ending pet breed/weight restrictions (54%)

I saw a lot of the top line findings of the new MD @ggwash.org poll, but I missed this one until yesterday. 75% of Marylanders support good cause eviction protections (which requires a landlord to have a reason to not renew a tenant lease). ggwash.org/view/102300/...

How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Got Ahead of the DEI Backlash With a multipronged funding approach that began before the 2023 anti-affirmative action decision, the foundation's work to protect health equity and DEI persists.

Love to see the work of my former @lawyerscomm.bsky.social colleagues Adria Bonillas, Katy Youker, and Sabrina Talukder highlighted - as well as the incredible support that @rwjf.org has provided for the fight to protect proven racial equity strategies.

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Thomas's Virginia Marathon fundraiser for the Poverty & Race Research Action Council Help Thomas Silverstein raise money to support Poverty And Race Research Action Council

Still going strong with training and looking forward to some warm weather runs in an undisclosed location over the next week. Chip in!

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Re-upping my piece on HUD's threatening letters to Boston and Minneapolis ICYMI.

Targeted marketing for a program with no racial eligibility restrictions has been upheld by even conservative courts. HUD seems to have missed this.

bit.ly/3NTD4Ek

#HousingPolicy #CivilRights

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Despite the seeming scientific impossibility, landlords will, in fact, come up with ways to get blood out of a turnip (extract higher and higher rents out of poor tenants for low-quality units in poor neighborhoods, even without slightly higher income tenants bidding up those rents).

We do not expect consistency here, but, as an Ashkenazi Jew whose people (also mine) were assimilated into whiteness more or less concurrently with Italian-Americans, there is a special kind of lack of self-awareness at play.

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I’m on team not our year so revel in the absurdity rather than team not our year so blow it all up because life is too short for the latter.

SZOBO!!! Was that maybe better than the one against Arsenal?

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Just ran eight miles in -5 Fahrenheit wind chill weather. Bit of a psychological test but obviously less draining than the main event will be. Still, feeling pretty optimistic that it won’t be that cold on race day!

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HUD Scolds Boston and Minneapolis for Doing What It Says It Wants Done Investigations into the fair housing practices of Boston and Minneapolis contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court.

HUD is scolding Boston & Minneapolis for advancing fair housing—despite decades of court cases backing their approach.

Why this matters for cities everywhere ⤵️
bit.ly/3NTD4Ek

#FairHousing #AFFH #HousingJustice

PRRAC Update: more HUD rulemakings; PRRAC ED op-ed in Shelterforce; HOPE VI research (February 5, 2026) - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy A Deluge of Dreck from HUD: Three different harmful rulemakings from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have cleared the inter-agency

Yesterday's PRRAC Update presents an opportunity to re-read @tsilverstein.bsky.social's op-ed in @shelterforce.bsky.social (you've read it already, right?), to fret over bad HUD rules, to explore new HOPE VI research, and, most importantly, to imagine different Super Bowl halftime show scenarios.

I'm running a marathon - for the first time - in a little over six weeks and would be undyingly grateful for your support!

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