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Read why Social Housing is the right fit for the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social admin by our own House the Future leader @iziah-thompson.bsky.social
www.centernyc.org/urban-matter...
www.centernyc.org/urban-matter...
Time for a Public Option: Social Housing Is the Right Fit For the Mamdani Administration — Center for New York City Affairs
While crucial, new privately built housing is not nearly enough. We also need publicly funded, democratically controlled “social housing.”
www.centernyc.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Read why Social Housing is the right fit for the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social admin by our own House the Future leader @iziah-thompson.bsky.social
www.centernyc.org/urban-matter...
www.centernyc.org/urban-matter...
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Thank you Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for citing our research & spotlighting the affordability crisis.
Our report “When You Can’t Afford the Fare” shows that New Yorkers with low and even moderate incomes are struggling to afford transit.
Read more cssny.us/3LXjhD6
Our report “When You Can’t Afford the Fare” shows that New Yorkers with low and even moderate incomes are struggling to afford transit.
Read more cssny.us/3LXjhD6
Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thank you Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for citing our research & spotlighting the affordability crisis.
Our report “When You Can’t Afford the Fare” shows that New Yorkers with low and even moderate incomes are struggling to afford transit.
Read more cssny.us/3LXjhD6
Our report “When You Can’t Afford the Fare” shows that New Yorkers with low and even moderate incomes are struggling to afford transit.
Read more cssny.us/3LXjhD6
Careful, Yonah. 😅
New paper in Journal of Housing Economics by Forster-Benson & Nchare studies the impacts of upzoning in Nashville, finding that upzoned parcels had an 11–38% increase in property prices, though impacts were heterogeneous, with effects concentrated among previously low-value properties.
Upzoning and residential transaction price in Nashville
Empirical research on the impact of upzoning policies on housing affordability has produced mixed results. This paper uses difference-in-differences a…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Careful, Yonah. 😅
It astounds me how cities so often destroy the things that make them good. I think it has something to do with the fact that too many policymakers uber from home to work to restaurants and seldom actually partake in "city" lol
DC is enforcing a “crackdown” on streeteries—outdoor seating for cafes—charging the cafes huge amounts of money to keep the facilities in place, and forcing them to use seating that doesn’t work in the winter. It’s a huge self-own, likely to end up hurting businesses, reducing street vibrancy.
Exclusive: Le Dip streetery to come down as D.C. crackdown reshapes outdoor dining
It's over for many D.C. streeteries, as the city starts to charge what you might call "road rent" and other fees.
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It astounds me how cities so often destroy the things that make them good. I think it has something to do with the fact that too many policymakers uber from home to work to restaurants and seldom actually partake in "city" lol
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Excellent proposal by @cssnyorg.bsky.social's @iziah-thompson.bsky.social on how Zohran's admin can fund more affordable housing construction.
The proposal's Revolving Housing Construction Fund (RHCF) would invest in City-built housing, recycling revenues back into the fund for future construction.
The proposal's Revolving Housing Construction Fund (RHCF) would invest in City-built housing, recycling revenues back into the fund for future construction.
CSS's @iziah-thompson.bsky.social lays out a blueprint for how Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can build housing that's publicly funded, permanently affordable, and economically sustainable.
Read more in Urban Matters from The New School's Center for New York City Affairs cssny.us/3K8yfoW
Read more in Urban Matters from The New School's Center for New York City Affairs cssny.us/3K8yfoW
Time for a Public Option: Social Housing Is the Right Fit For the Mamdani Administration — Center for New York City Affairs
While crucial, new privately built housing is not nearly enough. We also need publicly funded, democratically controlled “social housing.”
cssny.us
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Excellent proposal by @cssnyorg.bsky.social's @iziah-thompson.bsky.social on how Zohran's admin can fund more affordable housing construction.
The proposal's Revolving Housing Construction Fund (RHCF) would invest in City-built housing, recycling revenues back into the fund for future construction.
The proposal's Revolving Housing Construction Fund (RHCF) would invest in City-built housing, recycling revenues back into the fund for future construction.
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“Our research shows how systemic tax policies place an undue financial burden on working-class renters & neighborhoods with mainly Black & Hispanic residents, while wealthy real estate speculators receive preferential treatment,” said the report’s coauthor, Iziah Thompson.
March 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“Our research shows how systemic tax policies place an undue financial burden on working-class renters & neighborhoods with mainly Black & Hispanic residents, while wealthy real estate speculators receive preferential treatment,” said the report’s coauthor, Iziah Thompson.
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In 2022, NY voters approved the Bond Act to fund climate projects.
Three years later, just 16% has been spent—and NYC public housing residents, essential to its passage, have been left out.
Lawmakers are urging Governor Kathy Hochul to fix the rollout and invest in safe, green homes today.
Three years later, just 16% has been spent—and NYC public housing residents, essential to its passage, have been left out.
Lawmakers are urging Governor Kathy Hochul to fix the rollout and invest in safe, green homes today.
“Despite overwhelming support for the Bond Act in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, & Queens...public housing communities and multifamily buildings have been almost entirely excluded from the funded projects,” the lawmakers wrote to Gov. Kathy Hochul. bit.ly/3GsOprn
State Should Use Bond Act Funds to Electrify Homes at NYCHA, Lawmakers Say - City Limits
A group of state representatives are asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to steer some of the $4.2 billion in Bond Act climate and environmental funds for energy upgrades in public housing.
bit.ly
April 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In 2022, NY voters approved the Bond Act to fund climate projects.
Three years later, just 16% has been spent—and NYC public housing residents, essential to its passage, have been left out.
Lawmakers are urging Governor Kathy Hochul to fix the rollout and invest in safe, green homes today.
Three years later, just 16% has been spent—and NYC public housing residents, essential to its passage, have been left out.
Lawmakers are urging Governor Kathy Hochul to fix the rollout and invest in safe, green homes today.
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New, from me: as the Trump administration begins, I try to make sense of what, exactly, DOGE is.
Journalists and policymakers should be skeptical of its claim to be a govt reform commission, and more willing to see it as a form of oligarchic state capture.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
Journalists and policymakers should be skeptical of its claim to be a govt reform commission, and more willing to see it as a form of oligarchic state capture.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
DOGE: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything
What Marc Andreessen revealed about the tech-industrial complex
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New, from me: as the Trump administration begins, I try to make sense of what, exactly, DOGE is.
Journalists and policymakers should be skeptical of its claim to be a govt reform commission, and more willing to see it as a form of oligarchic state capture.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
Journalists and policymakers should be skeptical of its claim to be a govt reform commission, and more willing to see it as a form of oligarchic state capture.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
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Housing affordability and housing insecurity are two of the most important issues that New York faces today.
We had Annemarie Gray from @opennewyork.org , Cea Weaver of @housingjustice4all.bsky.social, Iziah Thompson of CSS, and Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal to discuss (video below).
We had Annemarie Gray from @opennewyork.org , Cea Weaver of @housingjustice4all.bsky.social, Iziah Thompson of CSS, and Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal to discuss (video below).
November 12, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Housing affordability and housing insecurity are two of the most important issues that New York faces today.
We had Annemarie Gray from @opennewyork.org , Cea Weaver of @housingjustice4all.bsky.social, Iziah Thompson of CSS, and Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal to discuss (video below).
We had Annemarie Gray from @opennewyork.org , Cea Weaver of @housingjustice4all.bsky.social, Iziah Thompson of CSS, and Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal to discuss (video below).