Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.
Ackshually I'm more of a pro-jazz Adornoite
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Ackshually I'm more of a pro-jazz Adornoite
Popped over to X to see how my Inside Philanthropy piece is being received there and one guy is calling me an "aberrant (original) Marcusian." His exact words.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Popped over to X to see how my Inside Philanthropy piece is being received there and one guy is calling me an "aberrant (original) Marcusian." His exact words.
Here's the research referenced in the piece: drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/1...
Foundation Funding of Anti-Housing Work_2025-10-2.pdf
drive.google.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Here's the research referenced in the piece: drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/1...
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Oooh boy this is an important conversation. I'm forever baffled that ending car-centric & economically/racially exclusionary land use patterns isn't a core climate philanthropy priority OR a core economic justice philanthropy priority.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Oooh boy this is an important conversation. I'm forever baffled that ending car-centric & economically/racially exclusionary land use patterns isn't a core climate philanthropy priority OR a core economic justice philanthropy priority.
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Foundations should stop funding groups that advance harmful housing policies.
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Foundations should stop funding groups that advance harmful housing policies.
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
These left-NIMBY nonprofits dwarf the YIMBY movement w/r/t funding and paid staff.
Great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social!
www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
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🎯: “In other words, foundation program managers and executives should think harder about what their goals are when it comes to housing policy — and whether they’re spending their money in a way that furthers those goals or undermines them.”
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🎯: “In other words, foundation program managers and executives should think harder about what their goals are when it comes to housing policy — and whether they’re spending their money in a way that furthers those goals or undermines them.”
This piece is based on research showing that since 2018 major foundations have given more than a quarter of a billion dollars to nonprofits that went on to oppose YIMBY legislation in California
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This piece is based on research showing that since 2018 major foundations have given more than a quarter of a billion dollars to nonprofits that went on to oppose YIMBY legislation in California
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
It's confounding because it's not like we're short on ambitious Democratic politicians in this state
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It's confounding because it's not like we're short on ambitious Democratic politicians in this state
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In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
See also Temu Walter Duranty bsky.app/profile/razz...
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
See also Temu Walter Duranty bsky.app/profile/razz...
Honestly the more I think about this vile statement, the more it reminds me of the Old Left stalwarts who tried to wave away Stalin's atrocities well after they became public knowledge in the US. Feels like the same sort of moral blindness is opening up a similar rift in Jewish liberalism.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Honestly the more I think about this vile statement, the more it reminds me of the Old Left stalwarts who tried to wave away Stalin's atrocities well after they became public knowledge in the US. Feels like the same sort of moral blindness is opening up a similar rift in Jewish liberalism.
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For 20+ years I've got my info on Israel-Palestine from academic literature and leading independent civil society orgs. And I can tell you, its not the young pro-Palestine activists who've been radicalised into a dark place by virtue of inhabiting an information bubble. Its the political class.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For 20+ years I've got my info on Israel-Palestine from academic literature and leading independent civil society orgs. And I can tell you, its not the young pro-Palestine activists who've been radicalised into a dark place by virtue of inhabiting an information bubble. Its the political class.
In an exceptionally weak field he is the most "yeah okay I could live with that" candidate thus far.
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In an exceptionally weak field he is the most "yeah okay I could live with that" candidate thus far.
"This story is going to be referenced in my obituary" is a hell of a damning statement.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"This story is going to be referenced in my obituary" is a hell of a damning statement.
Extremely troubling numbers for the Democrats. They must immediately denounce the San Francisco school district's policies regarding algebra if they're going to regain their edge. Preferably while driving F-150s.
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Extremely troubling numbers for the Democrats. They must immediately denounce the San Francisco school district's policies regarding algebra if they're going to regain their edge. Preferably while driving F-150s.
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how is it even possible to fuck up this bad
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
how is it even possible to fuck up this bad
Public preference isn't homogeneous and if there wasn't an extremely powerful constituency that values a suburban lifestyle above all else then we'd have already built enough of those smaller units to bring down their cost.
It’s also not true though. All Americans choose is proximity. Or small units without any of what he said wouldn’t cost more $/sf than the thing allegedly desired.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Public preference isn't homogeneous and if there wasn't an extremely powerful constituency that values a suburban lifestyle above all else then we'd have already built enough of those smaller units to bring down their cost.
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I've written on this question, and while I think detached house with a yard is a real preference a lot of Americans would hold regardless, I also think, to an American today, the question of preference is circular because urbanism is barely an option. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/have-you-e...
So your contention is that if we removed de facto subsidies for suburban living, we’d discover that most people actually prefer living in city center with no car? Of course, more people would end up doing that – the financial logic would change – but you’re saying Americans would on net PREFER that?
What is a subsidy, Alex?
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've written on this question, and while I think detached house with a yard is a real preference a lot of Americans would hold regardless, I also think, to an American today, the question of preference is circular because urbanism is barely an option. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/have-you-e...
Which is to say that preference in this case is partly a function of how you frame (or conceal through rhetorical sleight of hand, as the case may be) the tradeoffs.
I also cosign the points others have made about how this preference is partially the creation of public policy, not just its impetus.
I also cosign the points others have made about how this preference is partially the creation of public policy, not just its impetus.
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Which is to say that preference in this case is partly a function of how you frame (or conceal through rhetorical sleight of hand, as the case may be) the tradeoffs.
I also cosign the points others have made about how this preference is partially the creation of public policy, not just its impetus.
I also cosign the points others have made about how this preference is partially the creation of public policy, not just its impetus.
This is partially right but IMO it's a slanted way of presenting the choice. Americans' revealed preference is a yard, a car, low congestion, no homelessness, and proximity to major metro labor markets. Similarly, my preference is to lose 15 pounds without making any lifestyle changes.
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is partially right but IMO it's a slanted way of presenting the choice. Americans' revealed preference is a yard, a car, low congestion, no homelessness, and proximity to major metro labor markets. Similarly, my preference is to lose 15 pounds without making any lifestyle changes.
Me on Trump's 50-year-mortgage scheme and all the other things he's done to make housing even less affordable: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
Trump's 50-year-mortgage proposal is just the start of his housing problems
Letting homebuyers opt for a longer mortgage won’t make any homes cheaper.
www.ms.now
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Me on Trump's 50-year-mortgage scheme and all the other things he's done to make housing even less affordable: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...