Linh Song

Hello from Seattle.

Wassim, LAHC’s CEO, started life here like my parents. He relied on the kindness of others to guide him as he became a New American. He returns that kindness via LAHC, making sure there are no barriers to programs. Song Foundation and The Children’s Foundation are proud supporters. lahc.org

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, be like Milo. Release that stress and be free and agile enough to jump over a dachshund.

Loved cohosting an event for @cbhines586.bsky.social to help her win a seat in Congress. We need a deeply principled and effective former county prosecutor who led the charge on sexual assault and child abuse cases. Go, Christina!

The jeon life is a good life.

A note from the @acluofmichigan.bsky.social to start the day.

Board retreat for Great Lakes Housing Services takeaways includes remaining committed to providing technical assistance to rural, tribal, and underserved communities fighting the housing crisis…..and stickers. YIMBY all day, for all of Michigan.

Delighted to announce the Song Foundation’s grant of $300K in support of RX Kids launching in Ypsilanti. This public-private partnership shows how placed-based philanthropy can be responsive to local needs in a timely manner. Thanks to Dr. Mona and Ypsi’s leaders for showing us how it can be done.

Words and their uses and meanings beyond phonetic sounds can be challenging.

YouTube video by Song United sound of music halloween loop

This Halloween I dressed up as Maria from “The Sound of Music,” in celebration of the musical’s 60th anniversary and in recognition of antifascism. The video loop projected on our garage was a good reminder of what that actually means. youtu.be/4RFS0SEqPtQ

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Helped bring the Housing Innovation Roadtrip to Detroit with a stop for Lebanese manoush in Dearborn on the way back to Ann Arbor. Truly the best of the Midwest.

Wild times in Marquette, where this otherworldly portal leads to the Michigan Land Bank Association’s summit, with Godfather @dan-kildee.bsky.social as the keynote.

People want to have kids and live downtown. Can they? - Western City Magazine For decades, planners focused on attracting young singles to dense urban cores. That dynamic has shifted, in part because ...

“Some still insist ‘downtowns will never attract kids and shouldn’t try.’ Then they design downtown to virtually repel kids, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Vancouver proves the opposite can be true...”

Canadians @johnlorinc.bsky.social & @brenttoderian.bsky.social in this Cali article!

AKA partly why 9,000 college graduates leave the state of Michigan on an annual basis.

Truly the best place ever to have cut my teeth as a local elected. Libraries serve the public in so many ways because of course institutions of learning are institutions of DOING. Thank you, @aadl.org!

www.washtenawisd.org/ctemillage
Schedule for info sessions also listed on the site. I get reluctance to fund additional needs in a high tax city and county. But these programs meet real needs in the face of limited and disappearing state and federal funding.

CTE Millage - Business/Organization Communications Toolkit Career Technical Education Millage Proposal: Business & Community Partners Communication Toolkit On November 4, 2025, voters in the Washtenaw ISD service area will be asked to consider a 1 mill tax t...

Ballot info here including the stat on Career Technical Education enrollment increasing by 69% in the last 4 years. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Sowing distrust against local institutions trying to meet real needs under Prop A and Headlee limitations, AFTER serving as a local elected, is a choice.

Oh, yes, our former #a2council rep who has a history of organizing against more money for schools and LIBARIES.

The Song Foundation convenes grantees every other year for what we call, “The Joy Report.” Instead of requiring elaborate reports, we invite grantees to a day of rest, reflection, and sharing with nonprofit leaders. This is what philanthropic partnership can look like with respect and care.

So proud of my friend Paul Fleming’s book! Added it to our office library, a fraction of the thousands of books we have at home. pjfleming.com/imaginebetter

It’s why when I was elected to City Council, I featured my friend’s artwork in our Zoom meetings. It shows the 14 year life expectancy difference between Ann Arbor and Ypsi+Ypsi Twp.

‘Some of the highest rent.’ Ann Arbor’s lack of affordability under scrutiny As housing prices rise in Ann Arbor, city officials hope major growth can be a solution.

We are the economic seat of the county, the 5th largest and most expensive city in MI, & 80K daily commuters in a city of 122K residents. About 2/3 of renters pay more than 30% of their income on housing. We have room for more neighbors who already work and study here. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

I still have never met @joespaulding.bsky.social, which makes lies that I paid him for political work even funnier. Looking good, Joe!

Did a thing here in my low-density city of Ann Arbor. Thanks for coming out and hearing me speak to how being neighborly can be anti-racist work, and how when we oppose density we oppose people we should know and care about.

Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation’s annual meeting with attendees telling it like it is, then my first State Land Bank Authority meeting in Lansing with a stop for Hmong sausages and Nepalese momo to bring back to Ann Arbor. Housing, housing, housing.

It was a good day in Detroit with solid policy nerds. So proud to have Abundant Housing Michigan featured as a Changemaker. And Kudos to Anika Goss for speaking to housing challenges tribal nations face in this state. She’s why I’m a Detroit Future City fangirl. And these slides from Up For Growth!🔥

The effects of residential zoning in U.S. housing markets I construct a new nationwide dataset to measure the stringency of residential zoning in the United States and examine its effects on housing productio…

Important new research on the impact of zoning on the housing market. Minimum lot size requirements have two main effects: they increase housing costs and contribute to racial segregation. This was somewhat known to housing folks, but this paper matters because it uses advanced methods and data

Washtenaw County Housing Affordability and Stability Study The world is changing, sometimes faster than we ever imagined. And yet, amidst that rapid change, some truths remain constant. The need for housing is one…

The data is available. That hasn’t stop misinformation & lying about homes built & owned by corporate overlords. Yet companies also built our homes in the ‘70s so somehow, SFH homeowners are exceptions. Exceptional experts. My foundation co-funded this to counter chaos. www.aaacf.org/news/housing...