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Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Department of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. 🍝& 🚌
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The most New York thing imaginable is witnessing a stranger screw up the name of a sandwich everyone on the planet eats and responding "Well, that man can't be from New York."

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Middle age sometimes feels like a tightrope walk to avoid becoming one of an innumerable number of types of crank

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Guys, come on

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This is what "anti-DEI" means to the Trump administration. It's not "some corporate DEI measures are pointless or counterproductive," it's "women and people of color are presumptively unqualified for important government jobs"

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

A new apartment building in Lincoln Park called the Base is accepting apps for affordable 2BR and 3BR units — spread the word www.thebaselincolnpark.com

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

What is going on in LA??

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The people who designed the street and the people who designed the SUV should be held responsible.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Three great moderne/international homes in close proximity in La Grange Park. Rare to get a nice cluster like this, u simply gotta love it. A few more shots in next tweet below.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Prime time for a "Bureaucracy keeps your ass alive, actually" platform

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Bc it means buying a huge chunk of CTA service, seems to me anybody that lives in Chicago or benefits from it being a massive economic hub should willing to accept a wide variety of taxation to avoid the fiscal cliff. Instead there’s a lot of focus on CTA being badly managed.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

There are a lot of places where the analogy breaks down, but has anyone written about the DOGE/Republican essential program cuts and former Governor Rauner’s devastation during the 2015-17 budget impasse?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 1307 comments

Parents of young kids in the “berry budget” age range, weigh in: how long would $10 for fruits and vegetables last you? $10 is the *monthly* amount the Trump administration just proposed for toddlers & preschoolers on WIC—a 62% cut.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Portage Park would be a perfect place if the Blue Line continued under Milwaukee Ave instead of running in the middle of the Kennedy Expressway

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

everything they pretended to complain about on principle they were really only jealous of. this is their diversity statements.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

This is a really good primer! shelterforce.org/2025/05/28/a...

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This was preceded by 50 years of 1:1 requirements. Twelve years later, virtually every multifamily building in the city begins with a 0.5 req and is an administrative adjustment away from zero

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During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Can I say something without everybody getting mad at me

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

You can tell a lot about municipal priorities in Chicago and Montreal by comparing the two cities’ “Green Alley” programs. Chicago’s program funds better types of concrete pavement (left), while a program with the same name funds people-first green spaces in Montreal (right)

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Chicago’s first modern TOD/low parking building

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Does anywhere use FMR or SAFMR as a peg for state or local affordable housing policies instead of AMI?

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I missed this--the City put out a one-year report on Cut the Tape www.chicago.gov/content/dam/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

My synagogue is running a fundraiser for children in Gaza and we're less than $700 from our goal support.anera.org/P2P/nX6SPnqt...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Fun fact: Italy generally does not define residential typologies via planning regulations. Residential uses are very broadly defined, and there is no such thing as specific mandates for single family, plexes, townhouses, or apartments.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments