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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 21h

Congrats to Tonika Johnson on a well deserved MacArthur genius grant! The folded map project is incredibly powerful, and her book Don't Go (with Maria Krysan) is outstanding. chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/10/...

Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson among 22 winners of coveted MacArthur ‘genius grant’

The Englewood native, whose work focuses on inequity in Chicago, is among this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. The list of international fellows receiving the $800,000 prize includes several artist...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

It is insane how she keeps describing Chicago as a "war zone", when the only warlike things happening here are all DHS operations

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

The third amendment is about to get very relevant.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Jaded_In_Montana🍀🐝💙🤍⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾𖤓 ⋆⁺₊⋆🇺🇸🇺🇦🐕 @jadedinmontana.bsky.social · 4d

East Garfield Park
Chicago, Illinois

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 7d

You recommend it? Of the abundance related books of the past year I've read Abundance and Why Nothing Works, wasn't sure if it would be worthwhile to also read Stuck (and Demsas's book of essays).

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Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social · 9d

This is a nice working paper showing that traffic noise creates a pretty large externality. Near major roads, people are willing to pay ~6-10% more for homes after a sound barrier is built.

They estimate that traffic noise has an aggregate externality of $110 billion!

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 9d

Wrong link?

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 13d

So many people worked so hard for a real ADU reform. This ain't it. If a bill passes 46-0 maybe it compromised a bit too hard.

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 13d

Agree. This is not a serious pro-housing policy. Very disappointing.

Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13d

Some sort of “limitations and local review” and a union labor requirement for an ADU (lol) sounds like, in effect, Chicago has chosen to not allow ADUs

Alex Nitkin @alexnitkin.bsky.social · 13d

Compromise ADU ordinance PASSES City Council in a 46-0 vote, ending a 7-year legislative battle over a modest affordable housing tool already common elsewhere in the country. Story TK

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 14d

Spotted in the wild in Hyde Park! #BuildTheTunnel @starlinechicago.bsky.social

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 15d

Some thoughts about policy work daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/some-thought...

Some thoughts about policy work

Against Advice | The Point MagazineOne of the paradoxes of advice seems to be that those most likely to be asked for it are least likely to have taken anyone else’s: their projects of “becoming” are t...

daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 15d

This is by Greenline Homes, they've done a lot of great infill projects helping to revitalize the Woodlawn neighborhood (reinforcing efforts of POAH under HUD's Choice Neighborhoods program).

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 15d

Went to an open house tonight for a really cool property. All-electric, super high efficiency, casement windows, solar panels. Love the layout with an accessible ground floor ADU, perfect for an in-law suite. This is the ultimate urban "single family home". redf.in/anZg41

6537 S Rhodes Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 - 4 beds/3.5 baths

(MRED as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 4 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 6537 S Rhodes Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 ∙ $619,000 ∙ MLS# 12467604 ∙ The Home You've Been Waiting For! Tired of being priced out of the hom...

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 20d

Great piece on replacing lead service lines in Chicago. This is personal for me. I lived in Flint in 2014-15 during the lead water crisis. Then moved...to the place with more lead pipes than anywhere else in the country. Oops. open.substack.com/pub/citythat...

Solving Chicago's lead pipe problem

Better answers for one of the city's most difficult challenges

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 20d

State reps in Illinois only make $90k!!

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 23d

Which grant?

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 25d

As for the property tax, I was thinking of a new building on vacant land, so the abatement of incremental increases would be netting out the value of the new building.

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 25d

You asked why 40 years. By 40 years, you basically have to replace everything except the structure itself. So 30-40 years can be thought of as the effective life cycle of a building.

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 25d

40 years is essentially the useful life of a building, so maybe that approach is meant as a backdoor land value tax. Exempt the building value for its full useful life, and what's left is land value.

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Steven @stevevance.net · 27d

Woodlawn neighborhood SFH+ADU house tour sneak preview

RSVP to see on 9/23

www.eventbrite.com/e/sfh-adu-el...

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 28d

I was especially struck by the story of Britt, who longed for a housing choice voucher, finally got one... then lost it. She, and so many people in this book, get so close to their dreams (or at least some stability) but they just have no margin for error.

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · 28d

I'm excited for this event in Chicago! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social book is excellent. Such a rich portrait of the consequences of the housing crisis for real people. Very often upsetting but worth it.

withfriends.co/event/238616...

10/14 - Brian Goldstone: There is No Place for Us by Build Coffee & Books

Get tickets and support Build Coffee & Books by becoming a member

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Sep 9

When the facts are available and their meaning obvious, people who want power over you must eventually demand that you ignore what you see, what you know.

"Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

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Paul Joice @pjoice.bsky.social · Sep 8

... I looked out the window at my office, a few hours after the tweet, and there is the ICE car!

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