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Baltimore is considering 5 zoning reform bills to boost housing affordability, fill vacant lots, improve walkability & support the homes our neighbors need. Learn more + take action: baltpop.org/baltcity-5-z... #ZoningReform #BuildABetterBaltimore #HousingJustice #WalkableCities

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Money that could be going to schools, affordable housing, food for those who are hungry...

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"Housing First programs provide low-barrier permanent supportive housing with wraparound voluntary mental health services and case management. ... [T]hese programs are effective in reducing arrests and incarceration even when they aren't tailored specifically to criminalized populations."

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Vouchers are a powerful tool for stable child development & future health & earnings. Yet funding cuts, time limits & work mandates are targeted at children. Only 40% of households w/ vouchers have children & half if them already work.

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The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.

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Nearly 150 Deportees Remain Wrongfully Detained After Months Of Trump Stonewalling talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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4th Am & Due Process clause of 5th/14th Am are not just about esoteric fairness, but to prevent often grave harm to a person’s life, liberty or property when gov’t makes a mistake. Higher the likelihood of error, “the more process is due.” Error very likely in Trump’s sloppy & cruel rush to deport.

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“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like “Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic “Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect

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65% of people detained by ICE committed no crime. So Trump needs to cut the BS of what this is all about

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A Baltimore City/County merger would create biggest & wealthiest majority Black jurisdiction in US. The political line we’ve drawn between them is so consequential, yet so invisible & arbitrary it runs right through this house, entitling kids to choose City or County schools. redf.in/ZoDCbi

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“Alex was one of first to recognize profound effects of concentrated poverty. The Gautreaux litigation changed more than just housing policy. It forced us to reconsider how we treat the marginalized.” Well beyond Chicago, Alex’s paradigm shifting battle against segregation changed innumerable lives.

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NEW: ICE agents leave courthouse empty-handed after faith leaders stand in solidarity with migrants in San Diego. The Pope’s newly appointed Bishop led the effort, telling Trump to treat migrants more kindly. “We live on a land where the majority of us were immigrants at one time or another.” 👏

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Jim Justice said about Medicaid work requirements: "Biblically, we are supposed to work." Justice inherited his coal mining business and is deeply in debt. meanwhile, 62 percent of Medicaid recipients in his state already work. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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10000% yes on this messaging guidance from ‪@parkingreform.org‬. How we tell the pro-housing story matters, and these tactical tips go a long way to make us better storytellers.

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Incredibly amazing post by @jessrem.bsky.social with an important point about American housing—NY/CA build nothing, TX/AZ sprawl, but only a few American cities like Seattle, Atlanta, & DC are actually building lots of new dense housing in their core neighborhoods

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28% of Major League Baseball is foreign born. Six teams have even more than the Dodgers: Braves (14) Mets (13) Orioles (12) Marlins (12) Phillies (11) Mariners (11) Every major leaguer has a responsibility to speak out against the violence and terror ICE is bringing to immigrant communities.

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redf.in/DhxMhi

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wait you mean the project 2025 platform that was was literally 'deporting immigrants would make housing more affordable' is not making housing more affordable?

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Cutting Medicaid and the ACA gives the wealthy their tax cut. But probably adds cost to everyone on employer based insurance to cover uncompensated care

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Raise the cap.

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GUARDIAN: “As 2 of the last analysts from an 🇺🇸 think tank to visit Iran, just 3 weeks ago - their negotiating team were eager to work out a deal… high-level foreign ministry officials expressed concern about a spoiling effort by Netanyahu…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In case you are wondering, the NIMBYs in CT are NOT okay 👽👾👽👾👽👾👽👾👽👾👽

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Overall housing starts situation in the US: We're now quite a bit down from the early-2022 recent peak, which itself was quite a bit down from the early-2006 peak. The recent decline is for both single- and multi-family construction. It's not a complete collapse like 2006–08, but it's not good.

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Kinda like how people in green & leafy single family residential neighborhoods think apartments (especially affordable housing) belong in the concrete heat islands of the inner city and industrial/commercial areas.

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More Democrats need to learn this is the only way we're going to get out of this mess we're in. All that "hands across the aisle" bullshit is going to get you primaried and voted OUT.

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This is a nationwide emergency.

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Tenant screening reports often include wrong or outdated info—like evictions that didn’t happen. The billion-dollar industry behind them? Largely unregulated. bit.ly/4e87vzK #housing #fairhousing #algorithms

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Even little Berkeley Springs, WV had a No Kings rally w/ 200 people in attendance. Morgan Co is deep red, not a single elected Democrat. www.morganmessenger.com/2025/06/17/n...

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Fair housing protections help ensure everyone has the freedom to live in a safe & stable home, no matter our differences. But tenant screening companies provide discriminatory data to landlords who then deny tenants housing. NHLP's Eric Dunn talked to @shelterforce.bsky.social about this issue.

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Demand exceeds supply & rents still going up, except in the South. “In some metros, less than half of the available job postings offer the local livable wage.” www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/...

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Long-term care workers witness firsthand how access to housing and nutrition services improves patient outcomes. Removing these supports makes our jobs harder and our communities sicker. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-m...

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Young children are the group most at risk for housing insecurity & homelessness —yet the group that is least served by new housing and most harmed by substandard or unsafe living environments.

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‘Increases in teacher salaries alone cannot keep up with the housing market in many school districts making it unaffordable for teachers to live in communities they serve…A nat’l response to the housing crisis is necessary to ensure schools can retain their workforce.’ www.nctq.org/research-ins...

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Mr. Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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