Michael Friedrich

79% of Jewish Israelis are ok with starving Gaza.

Large majority of Israeli Jews untroubled by reports of famine in Gaza, poll finds www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

I went long for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social about inequality in public space, the Bank of America Winter Village-ization of the urban commons, and why we should stop relying on an undertaxed donor class to fund our parks. nyra.nyc/articles/cen...

The One Where @mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social critiques park conservancies.

nyra.nyc/articles/cen...

I went long for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social about inequality in public space, the Bank of America Winter Village-ization of the urban commons, and why we should stop relying on an undertaxed donor class to fund our parks. nyra.nyc/articles/cen...

It is very funny that Ezra Klein and Chris Hayes spent 90 mins talking about Zohran Mamdani's command of the "attention economy" and never once mentioned the massive organizing effort that delivered him the primary win. Sorry, it 's only "attentional strategy" if it's social video!

All gas, no breaks.

Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events

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Freeze the rent.

Certain people will tell you otherwise, but freezing the rent is a great way to ensure that rents do not rise.

Casualties in Trump’s war on the arts: the small museums keeping local history alive Institutions in Los Angeles and beyond have seen millions in grants wiped away almost overnight. What happens when they can’t tell their stories?

For my debut in @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Trump’s cuts to the arts could erased stories told by small cultural institutions

Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike How renters in two Chicago neighborhoods found each other—and fought back—when the same investor planned to displace them.

Lots of great details in this new piece from @rebeccaburns.bsky.social including how much profit-seeking landlords are gambling that they can buy buildings, quickly remove the tenants, & flip or refinance it. + how all that makes them vulnerable to rent strikes. inthesetimes.com/article/chic...

Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.

NEW: We're uncovering a new racist, classist pattern of eviction carried out by corporate landlords in places like Los Angeles — and we're fighting back.
prospect.org/infrastructu...

probably the worst/funniest example of an underground guy torching his principles and legacy

You know he's going to be incredibly mean to them, he's still got it in him

Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.

A new study shows that large corporate landlords in LA are disproportionately evicting Black tenants in the post-pandemic housing market. The findings are disturbing, but they also raise possibilities for tenant organizing. I wrote about it for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...

"Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again." The Institute's own graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, reveals striking findings with unprecedented data from the #TenantPowerToolkit.

Read the article here. I wanted to spell out its jaw-dropping findings, hear from tenants who have dealt with these landlords, and cover the way @latenantsunion.bsky.social and @debtcollective.bsky.social are using the data to fight back. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.

Corporate landlords appear to be systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods with favorable deals, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again. prospect.org/infrastructu...

Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.

A new study shows that large corporate landlords in LA are disproportionately evicting Black tenants in the post-pandemic housing market. The findings are disturbing, but they also raise possibilities for tenant organizing. I wrote about it for @prospect.org. prospect.org/infrastructu...

Americans are facing a dire supply shortage of friend. We must unleash the market to create an Abundance of friend.

Every New Yorker knows that sometimes you can get a seat on a rush hour subway train but it will require that you remove the Mysterious Napkin that other riders have avoided touching

People talk about a "housing crisis." Landlords are not experiencing a housing crisis. Tenants are suffering a housing crisis at the hands of greedy landlords.

The Last Days of the Boat-Dwellers of Sausalito How a California town destroyed an affordable enclave along its coast

"While the mass of people unable to afford to live like mainstream America swells, mainstream America is now hell-bent on eliminating their irregular housing." newrepublic.com/article/1935...

The Last Days of the Boat-Dwellers of Sausalito How a California town destroyed an affordable enclave along its coast

There are these little pockets of the Bay Area where regular-ass people are able to lead their lives without making $160,000 a year and of course the wealthy find them icky and are doing everything possible to eradicate them.

exactly, you did the second one

do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state

A stunning thing this piece reveals is the emergence of "employment shelters" in New York City, homeless facilities specifically for people who work jobs, often full-time, but can't afford a place to live www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...

When They Go Home After Working All Day, It’s Not to a Home Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.

"About a third of the families living in New York City’s homeless shelters have at least one adult who gets up and goes to work. But their salaries—some as high as $40k or $50k or more—are outmatched by the depth of the city’s affordability crisis."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...