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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 20h

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 1d

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 2d

That was very funny!

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 2d

Los Altos Hills badly needs dense mixed-income housing.

Why this wealthy Bay Area suburb is at the center of the next big fight over California housing

Los Altos Hills agreed to legalize some apartment buildings. Now it wants a do-over.

calmatters.org

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 2d

I don't really want more Americans to win the Nobel for Literature, but noting here that 7 have since The Crying of Lot 49 was published in 1965. Of those, only 1 (Toni Morrison) is a writer of comparable stature to Pynchon. But the committee is full of cowards who are afraid of being stood up so...

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 3d

The heretofore separate universes of being a long-time coalition partner of Rasheedah's & of being a long-time @stadio.football listener (@okwonga.bsky.social reposted) colliding (like atoms in some lab?).

oxfordcsls.bsky.social @oxfordcsls.bsky.social · 3d

In this week's #Frontiers, 📚 A Good Read section, Professor Emily Grabham reviews Rasheedah Phillips’s new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025).

📖 Read the full post here:

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/race-time-qu...

Race, Time, and Quantum Physics - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Emily Grabham reviews Rasheedah Phillips’s new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025).

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 3d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 4d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 5d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 6d

I’m old enough to remember when the Nats passed on Trey Yesavage to draft Seaver King with the 10th pick in the 2024 MLB Draft.

Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 6d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 7d

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Poverty & Race Research Action Council @prrac.bsky.social · 8d

From yesterday's PRRAC Update: time is running out to register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility; the new edition of our report on housing mobility programs nationwide is out; and an important amicus brief about the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program.

PRRAC Update (October 2, 2025): Last chance to register for Housing Mobility Conference + 2025 Mobility Programs Report is here! - PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy

Register for the 10th National Conference on Housing Mobility before It Is Too Late: The registration period for the 10th National Conference on Housing

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 8d

First close one in a while but without real jeopardy on the last guess thankfully.

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 9d

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 10d

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act

There can’t be true desegregation without ending discrimination in housing—which is precisely why the administration is rolling back enforcement of the FHA.

www.thenation.com

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 10d

Some very interesting stuff in here, especially regarding affordable housing development costs (and some of the drivers thereof). I've been a bit obsessed with the topic of late, and folks can expect to see something from me on it in P&R soon.