Jenny Schuetz
@jennyschuetz.bsky.social
Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Delicata squash pie, via NYT Cooking. Puréed whole squash (skin too) mixed into custard with fall spices over graham cracker crust. Mmm.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Delicata squash pie, via NYT Cooking. Puréed whole squash (skin too) mixed into custard with fall spices over graham cracker crust. Mmm.
Just wrote on my calendar for Saturday: bake something delicious. that’s it, that’s my whole plan.
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just wrote on my calendar for Saturday: bake something delicious. that’s it, that’s my whole plan.
The posting-to-policy pipeline is real, at least when @cselmendorf.bsky.social wields his pen. We love to see it! Deepest sympathies to the oppressed homeowners in Beverly Hills...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The posting-to-policy pipeline is real, at least when @cselmendorf.bsky.social wields his pen. We love to see it! Deepest sympathies to the oppressed homeowners in Beverly Hills...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
Could NYC be getting better sidewalk sheds??? Don't get our hopes up if it's not true! (For the "truly unnecessary regulations" archive: why must sidewalk sheds *all* be hunter green? Seriously?) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...
New York City’s Scaffolding Gets a Long Overdue Makeover
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Could NYC be getting better sidewalk sheds??? Don't get our hopes up if it's not true! (For the "truly unnecessary regulations" archive: why must sidewalk sheds *all* be hunter green? Seriously?) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...
We already have historically high shares of older adults, no longer working, with outstanding mortgage debt. 50 year mortgages would only make that more acute.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We already have historically high shares of older adults, no longer working, with outstanding mortgage debt. 50 year mortgages would only make that more acute.
NYT cooking algorithm has figured out that I will, in fact, read any recipe with fall-themed words. Apple pumpkin maple cinnamon squash salad? Absolutely!
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
NYT cooking algorithm has figured out that I will, in fact, read any recipe with fall-themed words. Apple pumpkin maple cinnamon squash salad? Absolutely!
Super reassuring to be prepping for trip to APPAM next week and see both IAD and Sea-Tac on the list of airports expected to reduce flights. No worries, right?
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Super reassuring to be prepping for trip to APPAM next week and see both IAD and Sea-Tac on the list of airports expected to reduce flights. No worries, right?
~70% of New Yorkers supporting creating a unified digital zoning map might restore my faith in humanity. 🤞
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
~70% of New Yorkers supporting creating a unified digital zoning map might restore my faith in humanity. 🤞
Initial results for NYC housing ballot referenda:
#2 Fast Track Affordable Housing: up with 55%
#3 Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects: up with 55%
#4 Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board: up with 55%
#2 Fast Track Affordable Housing: up with 55%
#3 Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects: up with 55%
#4 Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board: up with 55%
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Who else is going to be chewing their fingernails over Yes on Affordable Housing? Can we get a special edition of the Needle?
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Who else is going to be chewing their fingernails over Yes on Affordable Housing? Can we get a special edition of the Needle?
NYC voters have a chance today to remove redundant veto points to housing production. Ballot questions 2-4 would revise NYC's charter to make it easier to approve affordable housing & small projects. Technical & wonky? Yes. Important to increase supply? Also yes.
furmancenter.org/thestoop/ent...
furmancenter.org/thestoop/ent...
What the Charter Revision Commission’s Ballot Proposals May Mean for New York City’s Housing Production
The New York City Charter Revision Commission proposed in its final report in late July five ballot measures for voters to weigh in on, including three proposals that would impact housing development ...
furmancenter.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
NYC voters have a chance today to remove redundant veto points to housing production. Ballot questions 2-4 would revise NYC's charter to make it easier to approve affordable housing & small projects. Technical & wonky? Yes. Important to increase supply? Also yes.
furmancenter.org/thestoop/ent...
furmancenter.org/thestoop/ent...
Fall in a bowl: roasted butternut squash, maple pecans, turkey bacon, and kale salad.
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fall in a bowl: roasted butternut squash, maple pecans, turkey bacon, and kale salad.
Happy to contribute to @notusperspectives.bsky.social on ways to fix housing policy. My take: make it easier to build homes of all shapes & sizes in more communities by legalizing diverse structures & simplifying complex regulations.
www.notus.org/perspectives...
www.notus.org/perspectives...
What is the biggest fix the U.S. needs when it comes to housing policy?
Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ingrid Gould Ellen, Michael Lens, Rebecca Patterson, Sonja Trauss, Rosanne Haggerty, Neera Tanden, Jenny Schuetz, Ganesh Sitaraman
www.notus.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy to contribute to @notusperspectives.bsky.social on ways to fix housing policy. My take: make it easier to build homes of all shapes & sizes in more communities by legalizing diverse structures & simplifying complex regulations.
www.notus.org/perspectives...
www.notus.org/perspectives...
Anecdata on DC economy: my hairstylist quietly asked if my job is ok. Lots of her regular clients are federal govt workers. Business has gotten very slow for the whole salon.
October 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Anecdata on DC economy: my hairstylist quietly asked if my job is ok. Lots of her regular clients are federal govt workers. Business has gotten very slow for the whole salon.
People who have extra bedrooms & badly need more income do, in fact, take on roommates who share the rent. But many people really value their privacy & prefer not to share space with non-family. That's why studios/1 BRs rent at a premium.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
People who have extra bedrooms & badly need more income do, in fact, take on roommates who share the rent. But many people really value their privacy & prefer not to share space with non-family. That's why studios/1 BRs rent at a premium.
Reposted by Jenny Schuetz
it’s honestly crazy how the New York City council, at the behest of speaker Adrienne Adams, is illegally spending millions of your taxpayer dollars on an unhinged NIMBY propaganda campaign
if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing
if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing
my kink. getting my mouth taped shut by Vickie Paladino and Bob Holden when I try to build affordable housing in Queens
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
it’s honestly crazy how the New York City council, at the behest of speaker Adrienne Adams, is illegally spending millions of your taxpayer dollars on an unhinged NIMBY propaganda campaign
if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing
if you live in NYC vote YES on measures 2-5 to make it easier to build affordable housing
New federal policy on historic preservation: better to ask forgiveness than permission?
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
New federal policy on historic preservation: better to ask forgiveness than permission?
Cities: how do we protect pedestrians from construction on the outside of buildings?
NYC: create giant semi-permanent sidewalk sheds that disrupt walking and look hideous.
Milan:
NYC: create giant semi-permanent sidewalk sheds that disrupt walking and look hideous.
Milan:
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Cities: how do we protect pedestrians from construction on the outside of buildings?
NYC: create giant semi-permanent sidewalk sheds that disrupt walking and look hideous.
Milan:
NYC: create giant semi-permanent sidewalk sheds that disrupt walking and look hideous.
Milan:
Very cool new job posting! Social Science Research Council is hiring a Program Director to help launch a new Abundance Academic Network -- terrific opportunity to bridge social science research with current policy debates. Details below:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/socialscienc...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/socialscienc...
Program Director
Brooklyn
job-boards.greenhouse.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Very cool new job posting! Social Science Research Council is hiring a Program Director to help launch a new Abundance Academic Network -- terrific opportunity to bridge social science research with current policy debates. Details below:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/socialscienc...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/socialscienc...
Even in the academic journal universe, where editors serve different functions, good editors add enormous value. @coulsoncommaed.bsky.social and Dan McMillan shaped the field of urban economics through thoughtfully curating and shepherding papers.
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Even in the academic journal universe, where editors serve different functions, good editors add enormous value. @coulsoncommaed.bsky.social and Dan McMillan shaped the field of urban economics through thoughtfully curating and shepherding papers.
Pumpkin biscuits. Happy fall, friends!
October 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Pumpkin biscuits. Happy fall, friends!
Great example of how tariffs harm broad economic segments but benefit narrow niche interests: housing analysts + NAHB worry (rightly) that tariffs on cabinets will slow housing production. Who's happy? The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...
New Tariffs Could Worsen America’s Housing Crisis
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Great example of how tariffs harm broad economic segments but benefit narrow niche interests: housing analysts + NAHB worry (rightly) that tariffs on cabinets will slow housing production. Who's happy? The American Kitchen Cabinet Alliance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...
Panel on Western NC disaster recovery points out that federal programs aren’t structured to support renters. That’s a policy *choice*. The US consistently excludes renters from financial benefits that homeowners receive. It doesn’t have to the that way.
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Panel on Western NC disaster recovery points out that federal programs aren’t structured to support renters. That’s a policy *choice*. The US consistently excludes renters from financial benefits that homeowners receive. It doesn’t have to the that way.
Reposted by Jenny Schuetz
We need to address both housing supply & ensuring family-sized homes that aren't just suburban single-families. Legalizing single-stair (w/safe construction materials) can help with both. We shouldn't be re-inventing the wheel w/long commissions; learn from places like Seattle & get it implemented.
Do apartment buildings really need two stairwells? - The Boston Globe
Fire safety advances have made single-stair construction safer.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We need to address both housing supply & ensuring family-sized homes that aren't just suburban single-families. Legalizing single-stair (w/safe construction materials) can help with both. We shouldn't be re-inventing the wheel w/long commissions; learn from places like Seattle & get it implemented.
Raleigh is serious about its historic homes - but also has some lovely newer ones. Townhouse mews are a great land-efficient option. And hats off to NC realtors…y’all got good taste.
September 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Raleigh is serious about its historic homes - but also has some lovely newer ones. Townhouse mews are a great land-efficient option. And hats off to NC realtors…y’all got good taste.