That said--Idk your local HUD office well but I suspect you could apply for an exception to the concentration rule if you did a >50% market rate, <50%PH proposal

You are doing a tremendous job at Bunker Hill (even in spite of the chunk the NIMBY neighbors took out of the deal)

It's an important demonstration project for teaching NYC advocates (on top of HOPESF & the UK's estate regen program)

You have my respect and my support 🙏

Keep up the great work

True! Gotta do mixed-income on-site, not 100% Section 9 (or 100% F2RAD)

The Chetty et al opportunity literature says that's optimal for children in public housing anyways--i.e. that's a bonus not a problem

I'm tired of undereducated literary Marxists posting Ross Barkan's profoundly confused NYT essay on Faircloth as the excuse for doing nothing

Buddy just Google it! You're nowhere near the Faircloth Cap yet bro!

(Let alone the more sophisticated CPE approach to non-Faircloth social housing)

The worst thing about the social housing advocates is that they don't know anything about social housing

I'm supposed to be a housing mod, not a prog!

Yet I have to secretly fuel the other side's arguments to help them with their ideas, because they don't even know how to start new public housing

If Zohran gets more neighborhood rezonings lined up in his first year than Streets & Squares did in your first term, people are going to understandably wonder why that is!

Underrated tweet

STV is PR+RCV. We were trying to manage all the acronyms in an oped with tight word count

450 this year
www.nyc.gov/content/plan...

In the new role & under the Niskanen senior fellow title, I'll still be able to talk to all my journo & staff friends

(To my SBC & HFSC friends, I can still testify in hearings, for example 👀)

So don't be shy! New role, same Alex. Just here to help the whole ecosystem now

I want to thank my teammates @awjustus.bsky.social, Kaj Gumbs, & @rohanaras.bsky.social --and the whole Niskanen team! We've gotten so much further since 2022 than I dared hope

And it's not goodbye: as a Senior Fellow I'll still be helping the team transition. There are great things ahead