Whitney Airgood-Obrycki

both of you should write books that i can buy and read!!

my kids are afraid of dogs but when they see dogs in coats it makes their day! and this would be the cutest armadillo to meet on a walk!

Congrats!!!

thanks for posting it, yonah!!

good luck!!

haha yes! it’s all just training…..

i have no doubt it would have been a slippery slope, and like every crew coach i’ve ever known he definitely would have rigged up some wild setup to make it possible. “ladies, just bike the boats, is no big deal.”

that’s totally awesome!!

she’s amazing!! came across her story when i was trying to decide if this was a crazy plan… figured if she could bike herself, i could certainly make it as a passenger!!

haha! it was too dark on the ride and the only evidence i have is a picture of my husband locking up the bike when we arrived. intake nurses thought we were nuts..

Other factors contributing to the increase related to overall expanded shelter capacity, a high cost of living, inflation, increases in rents, and a lack of affordable housing."

from the narrative in the report: "Many of these CoCs attributed this increase to the state’s right to shelter law and its application to hundreds of recently arrived migrant families, refugees, and asylum-seekers who did not yet have living arrangements coming to the state...

line chart of homelessness trend for massachusetts from 2007 to 2024 showing a huge uptick in homelessness since 2022

yup! huge increase in MA sheltered population, especially in this last year. right to shelter has always made the trend in the state look a bit different from the rest of the country - will be interesting to see what the 2025 unsheltered count looks like here.

yes! hud put out the 2024 ahar yesterday… another year of bad news

amazing!!

omg, love this and now i need that book!!

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map of state cost burden rates. cost burdens are highest in the west and the south and are relatively lower in the midwest.

5. nearly every state is facing a deep affordability crisis. more than a third of renters are burdened by housing costs in every state, and several have rates above 50%. there is no geography of the country that is affordable to lower-income renters.

bar chart showing cost burden rates of about 50% or higher for renter households headed by a black, hispanic, or multiracial person. rates are about 45 percent for households headed by a white or asian person.

4. the racial gap in affordability has endured, due to persistent discrimination in education and labor as well as housing markets. more than half of renter households headed by a black or hispanic person are cost burdened.

3. full-time employment does not guarantee housing affordability. 36% of fully employed renters (households headed by someone who worked at least 50 weeks of the year and 35 hours in a typical week) were cost burdened in 2023, up from about 25% in 2001.

chart shows cost burden rates by income category. lower-income renters have cost burden rates around 80 percent, most of which are severe burdens. cost burdens are rising fastest for renters making $30,000 to $75,000.

2. affordability challenges continue to creep up the income scale. middle-income renters have seen the fastest increases in cost burdens. but lower-income renters still have persistently high burden rates and the deepest affordability challenges.

chart shows the number of cost-burdened households is at a record high of 22.6 million while share is about 50 percent. the trend of worsening affordability has accelerated since the pandemic.

1. a record number of renter households (22.6 million) spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent and utilities each month. that includes 12.1 million who spend more than half of their incomes on housing, which is also a record high

shaded_years <- data.frame(
xmin = seq(from = min(nrc_m$date), to = max(nrc_m$date), by = "2 years"), # every other year
xmax = seq(from = min(nrc_m$date) + months(12), to = max(nrc_m$date) + months(12), by = "2 years") # next year (for full year shading)
)
passed to geom_rect

love the orange details on your bike! so fun!

awesome, thanks!! just good to hear it works as a viable alternative. we'll have to go for it!

could you share which one you bought? we've got the same problem and have been thinking about trying something out!

YouTube video by ELOVEVO Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Official Video)

it’s this one for me 🤣 m.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUl...

@harvard-jchs.bsky.social is here!

i'm from northern indiana! a lot of mostly unspoken history around there. looking forward to reading this and learning more.