Jonathan Robinson
@jonrobinson2.bsky.social
Ex @Catalist_US. Proud Buckeye & Marylander. Dems are good. Affordable MD PAC YIMBY. Dad. Views my own.
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I don't know what it is with me and German housing papers, I always seem to find something that winds me up bsky.app/profile/chan...
A new @ajpseditor.bsky.social paper claims that building *any* public housing costs the largest incumbent party in 🇩🇪 municipalities around 0.5 % pts. I don't think this estimate is right. Alternative estimation strategies suggests effects that are between eight and forty times smaller (1/n)
New paper in AJPS uses German data to show that, despite housing shortages and rising rents, local governments constructing more affordable housing are often electorally punished. Electorate prefers municipal spending elsewhere (i.e. distributional conflict)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I don't know what it is with me and German housing papers, I always seem to find something that winds me up bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oops, apparently it was Nuzzel (sp). The bad place acquired it and it shut down. Sounds like there’s a competitor on here that I’ll definitely be trying!
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/reme...
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/reme...
Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky
The creator of Sill says "the death of the link" has had disastrous consequences for journalism, art, and the web. His free social media tool entered public beta on Friday.
www.niemanlab.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Oops, apparently it was Nuzzel (sp). The bad place acquired it and it shut down. Sounds like there’s a competitor on here that I’ll definitely be trying!
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/reme...
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/reme...
Love this btw. Useful social aggregation is something I really wish there was more of. I particularly miss Nuzzl (did you ever use?).
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Love this btw. Useful social aggregation is something I really wish there was more of. I particularly miss Nuzzl (did you ever use?).
Its her district
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Its her district
So you blame Friedson?
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So you blame Friedson?
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One reaction: those of us who have worked in government think it is much much harder to get people to pay attention to the issues you want them to care about than a lot of folks who haven’t think.
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
One reaction: those of us who have worked in government think it is much much harder to get people to pay attention to the issues you want them to care about than a lot of folks who haven’t think.
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Even the master of attention, Trump is struggling now to turn attention away from Epstein and has failed to get people to pay attention to the initiatives he wants like No Tax on Tips.
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Even the master of attention, Trump is struggling now to turn attention away from Epstein and has failed to get people to pay attention to the initiatives he wants like No Tax on Tips.
Agree to disagree. What matters is what was proposed and what was enacted. She folded.
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Agree to disagree. What matters is what was proposed and what was enacted. She folded.
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As far as I know not much has been written about the behind the scenes stuff on HR 1, but this post from Bruenig (who definitely is not a moderate!!!) on Childcare gets at a lot of the same dynamics.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/04/19/t...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/04/19/t...
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
As far as I know not much has been written about the behind the scenes stuff on HR 1, but this post from Bruenig (who definitely is not a moderate!!!) on Childcare gets at a lot of the same dynamics.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/04/19/t...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/04/19/t...
Now you're cooking
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Now you're cooking
Ok but how correlated are they in your view even if one isn't sufficient (my view is you need intense media attention)
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ok but how correlated are they in your view even if one isn't sufficient (my view is you need intense media attention)
What evidence do you have that they are uncorrelated? They are very correlated.
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
What evidence do you have that they are uncorrelated? They are very correlated.
Someone's got a plan for that
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Someone's got a plan for that
IDK there was a lot of policy coverage and debates in the 19/20 D primary. It wasn't ~everything the candidates did by a long shot but there was a lot.
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
IDK there was a lot of policy coverage and debates in the 19/20 D primary. It wasn't ~everything the candidates did by a long shot but there was a lot.
Yeah I also think that in a Pres primary getting people to listen to what you are proposing will not be a hard thing to get "attention" to
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yeah I also think that in a Pres primary getting people to listen to what you are proposing will not be a hard thing to get "attention" to
Also excited to read. Will you get into why there's so much disagreement in the literature, you & Mike seem on the opposite side of a ton of different papers looking at this (from what I recall)
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Also excited to read. Will you get into why there's so much disagreement in the literature, you & Mike seem on the opposite side of a ton of different papers looking at this (from what I recall)
I don't understand your point
October 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I don't understand your point