Esteban
@estebananza.bsky.social
I'm an affordable housing attorney and this is where I post my personal views. Talk to me about trains, cities, and safe, healthy, attainable homes for all. Temple Law/UR Alum | 🏳️🌈 he/him | 📍philly :)
Se o Brasil consegue fazer isso... então talvez...?
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Se o Brasil consegue fazer isso... então talvez...?
Reading a housing advocates listserv just before the holidays... why did I think logging On Here after that would be some kind of pick-me-up 🫠
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reading a housing advocates listserv just before the holidays... why did I think logging On Here after that would be some kind of pick-me-up 🫠
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
Girl WHAT
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Girl WHAT
I don't think I can consume any more information and there's still a whole day left in this workweek
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I don't think I can consume any more information and there's still a whole day left in this workweek
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October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Finally got around to reading @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY. Turns out I DO I have room in my heart for more incandescent rage!
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Finally got around to reading @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY. Turns out I DO I have room in my heart for more incandescent rage!
I always craft on election night. This year I made a broom 🧹
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I always craft on election night. This year I made a broom 🧹
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Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—then dragged her out of her car and arrested her.
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released without charges.
Read the story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Another one bites the dust.
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Another one bites the dust.
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness.
www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...
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From the union statement in the story below:
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
From the union statement in the story below:
Just replaced the clutch in my washing machine I feel invincible
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just replaced the clutch in my washing machine I feel invincible
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Yet another study showing the federal Opportunity Zone is flowing predominantly to neighborhoods already showing signs of gentrification & probably subsidizing continued gentrification rather than fostering responsible reinvestment.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yet another study showing the federal Opportunity Zone is flowing predominantly to neighborhoods already showing signs of gentrification & probably subsidizing continued gentrification rather than fostering responsible reinvestment.
By
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social at
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
By
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social at
www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Reinvestment Fund report on Philly corporate RE investment IDs "13 high-volume investors that bought 100 or more properties, and 8 investors that bought more than 200 properties during the study period", finding that they "operate primarily as landlords, rather than as developers or flippers."
What Philly’s corporate investors mean for renters and homebuyers
A new study finds investors are snapping up properties in neighborhoods like Germantown and Cobbs Creek — and it could change who can afford to live there.
whyy.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reinvestment Fund report on Philly corporate RE investment IDs "13 high-volume investors that bought 100 or more properties, and 8 investors that bought more than 200 properties during the study period", finding that they "operate primarily as landlords, rather than as developers or flippers."
Rebranding from "perpetual dilettante" to "maintains a sense of childlike wonder about the world."
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Rebranding from "perpetual dilettante" to "maintains a sense of childlike wonder about the world."
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Scroll down to the Major Events Timeline, and nothing will prepare you for what you'll see. I cannot believe it is real. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Scroll down to the Major Events Timeline, and nothing will prepare you for what you'll see. I cannot believe it is real. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.
Going on the world's shortest work trip, but still feel devastated leaving her behind 😭
October 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Going on the world's shortest work trip, but still feel devastated leaving her behind 😭
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October 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
Working out of an office in the heart of Center City has its challenges, but it is so worth it to hear the Eagles Uber guy driving around.
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Working out of an office in the heart of Center City has its challenges, but it is so worth it to hear the Eagles Uber guy driving around.
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Are you a HUD or USDA tenant? Know your rights during the government shutdown!
🏢Continue paying your portion of the rent
☎️Contact an attorney ASAP if your landlord tries to hike your rent or evict you during the shutdown
🔍Check out nhlp.org/govshutdown for more detailed info on your housing rights
🏢Continue paying your portion of the rent
☎️Contact an attorney ASAP if your landlord tries to hike your rent or evict you during the shutdown
🔍Check out nhlp.org/govshutdown for more detailed info on your housing rights
September 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Are you a HUD or USDA tenant? Know your rights during the government shutdown!
🏢Continue paying your portion of the rent
☎️Contact an attorney ASAP if your landlord tries to hike your rent or evict you during the shutdown
🔍Check out nhlp.org/govshutdown for more detailed info on your housing rights
🏢Continue paying your portion of the rent
☎️Contact an attorney ASAP if your landlord tries to hike your rent or evict you during the shutdown
🔍Check out nhlp.org/govshutdown for more detailed info on your housing rights
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As HUD's leadership pursues a plan that could push millions of families into homelessness, here's what the agency's website is serving up this morning:
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
As HUD's leadership pursues a plan that could push millions of families into homelessness, here's what the agency's website is serving up this morning: