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Adams noted the city has about 1,200 affordable housing units built or in the pipeline using money from the 20-year affordable housing millage city voters approved in 2020. “These two approaches — increasing market-rate supply as the plan recommends and the affordable housing subsidies that the city’s already doing — they’re complementary,” he said. When housing stock is constrained by zoning, increasing market competition and prices, public dollars invested into affordable housing don’t go as far, Adams said. “To quote Ned Resnikoff of the Roosevelt Institute, market-rate housing is not an alternative to social policy,” he said. “It’s a strategy for making social policy work the way we want.”

It's pretty gratifying to see a local planning official take up this point and run with it! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Announcing you intend to start frivolous lawsuits may not be the best legal strategy.

The Library Green Elegy: Dark Money Group Fined For Ann Arbor Election Interference Ann Arbor voters passed a pair of special election ballot measures in August of 2025 that would hopefully put to rest: what should be done ...

6 months ago, voters in Ann Arbor decided turn the page on the Library Lot. Erich Z. shares an elegy for the Library Green Conservancy. The non-profit opposed the Props A and B and was found to have violated state campaign finance laws.

www.damnarbor.com/2026/02/the-...

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Greg is right, SFH with back yards are not precluded by the CLUP. It makes more residential options possible but doesn't take any away. There is so much misinformation out there. Please remember who it is that's misleading you.

What mechanism is Woodbury using to prevent the city from fixing your street?

I think both Copernican and non-Copernican locals united on the issue of freeway expansion, as both sides understood the concept of induced demand.

Are you talking about the buildings as located in their actual proposal? Or are you talking about buildings that they've never proposed?

I'd be happy to redo the calculation with better measures, but it won't change things much. You have a next door house plus trees to your west that have much greater impact than a building 400' away.

I estimate: your solar panels are 15' above the ground, the distance from the west side of your house to the 7 story building is 400', and a 7 story building is 80' high. The elevation above horizontal from your solar panels the lip of the 7 story roof would be 9.2°. If any impact it'd be minimal.

Aren't the 7-story buildings in the interior of their owned property, so they would not, in fact, abut the back yards of any single family houses in the surrounding neighborhoods?

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Sounds incredibly familiar, #a2council

Back then developers were ethical and made sure they lost money on every home they sold.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

2025 on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst for pedestrian crashes: an interview with Crashes in Ann Arbor's Peter Houk Serious and fatal pedestrian crashes by year from Crashes in Ann Arbor . 2025 data is year to date. Ann Arbor has an ambitious  Vision Zero ...

2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data.

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www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...

Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list.

This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council

The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract 404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council

As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an “ethical responsibility,” I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back.

World there be a ”student row“ comprised of minimally maintained houses owned by cheap landlords who maximally raise rents?

Why'd you have to go and bring up the four red dots!? We never ever mention the red dots.

They’re my Allen neighborhood neighbors!!

Buy a >$500K <1,000 sq ft condo in another city for renting, investment, or weekends and then hire a lawyer to undermine their elections. Is that what decent folk are doing these days?

Voting YES on A and B to solve two important Ann Arbor issues — paying for a new library without raising taxes *and* finally getting a well-managed outdoor plaza — and to help address another — more affordable housing.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project.