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Dan Kent

@DanFKent

Lantern Organization President/ CEO Creating homes, strengthening neighborhoods.

New York, NY Katılım Aralık 2011
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
Somebody should write a book about how NYC came Back From the Brink. (See what I did there?) Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop: Moskos, Peter: 9780197797778: Amazon.com: Books share.google/2r2X31rWScvKbW…
𝕜𝕃𝕠𝕦𝕕 ☁️@Flatbush_kloud

Disrespectfully, you don't know. People ran from the city once. Policies led to more crime. No one wanted to be a cop. It looked like this...

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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@pmcondon2 Thank you for opening my eyes to this counterintuitive phenomenon! We will change our nonprofit mission. Instead of building homes and advocating for more housing supply, we will push for demolition and disinvestment. Im sorry I made housing less affordable by building it.
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Patrick Condon
Patrick Condon@pmcondon2·
This needs to be posted from time to time. Bottom line, the more you build the more housing costs. Correlation is not causation but my god!
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@loud_socialist We already have a strong network of nonprofit supportive housing and low income housing developers. In NYC we have a backlog of projects waiting in line for funding. All we need to do is increase capital budgets and reduce administrative processes.
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katelin 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @loudsocialist.bsky.social
katelin 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @loudsocialist.bsky.social@loud_socialist·
People are misreading my point here. Instead of "affordability requirements" we should have a robust public developer that builds universalist housing at scale for a wide range of income levels, including those making at/below minimum wage.
katelin 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @loudsocialist.bsky.social@loud_socialist

the "get rid of affordability requirements so we can build enough to bring down rents" line exhausts me, why can't we loosen zoning significantly while increasing public investment in housing & keeping affordability requirements? Supply injections don't bring rents down overnight

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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@sandeepvaheesan Well of course they can lower prices, they are operating at a loss. The question is, how much lower? Compared to what store? And for what products? Are we talking 10% lower than Aldi?
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Chamber of Progress
Chamber of Progress@ProgressChamber·
NEW ANALYSIS: NYC's delivery minimum pay standard succeeded in raising hourly earnings for active couriers by 86%. It also locked 42,000 workers out of the delivery workforce.
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Steven Fulop
Steven Fulop@StevenFulop·
We talk endlessly about housing affordability. But an apartment 40 minutes from a subway stop is obviously not the same as one 4 minutes away. That’s why the Partnership Fund co-founded the Transit Tech Lab with the MTA back in 2018 - because transit access is housing policy. This is amongst the most important work the Partnership does. govtech.com/biz/nyc-turns-…
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@DKThomp Millennials generally assumed we had an advantage over older generations with the advent of the internet, because we had earlier exposure. Why is this generations posture so radically different? We are all still learning how to use AI.
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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
AI being booed in commencement addresses seems pretty natural to me. It's really, really unusual for the people building and selling a new technology to promise that it will destroy people's livelihoods. Whether you consider this to be "horrendous marketing," or "actually, a craven justification for VC investment" or "really, just honest communication" or "rationally over-emphasizing the probability of a long-tail catatrophic outcome" or whatever else, the point is ... it's very unusual. I think today's 22yos should probably familiarize themselves with Claude and ChatGPT, but I don't entirely blame them for booing a technology whose architects have said, this will destroy your jobs.
Alex Kantrowitz@Kantrowitz

This is incredible. Artificial intelligence getting booed out of the stadium in any commencement speech it’s mentioned. Maybe telling college students AI was taking their jobs wasn’t the best strategy. Must watch —>

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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@JJeffrey100 Detox alone is a great example of NGO sponsored programs that don’t accomplish anything. Medication for opioid use disorder has far stronger evidence. If you want more accountability and better treatment outcomes, drug court mandated MOUD has potential.
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Hey Jay@JJeffrey100·
Why is the only solution to real problems (homelessness, drug addiction, crime) to create more NGO sponsored "programs", most of which don't accomplish anything? It's apparent. Chicago just opened a new shelter with medical care. Awesome first step. However, I spoke with a dozen homeless people and Chicago lost the plot. The reasons the homeless in Chicago doesn't like shelters are a) Bed bugs b) People steal their things c) They don't let them use substances in the shelter Imagine if we, instead, did the following 1) Advanced detox facilities in shelters 2) After detox, get a private bed in the shelter as halfway house with a locker (think cubicles) 3) Bedbug checks and/or UV treatment of all items entering the shelters Similar cost, but would actually treat the root causes instead of a feel-good TikTok video. THIS is why we need operators and not activists in government.
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@Volksgeist_ @59thProfile @QueenMab87 You still have to read the papers your citing. It takes two seconds to click on the link of a paper Claude suggested and determine if it is a real citation.
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Dr. Mia Brett
Dr. Mia Brett@QueenMab87·
I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@QueenMab87 Just ask AI to double check to make sure all of the sources are real. Either way as a researcher you shouldn't be citing papers that you didn't read. It's really not a big deal if 2-3 of the 50 sources AI provides are fake if you're reading the research you cite.
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@Volksgeist_ @59thProfile @QueenMab87 Well you shouldn't cite any source without reading it, whether AI suggested it or someone else cited in a paper. The hallucination are way less frequent now and easy to clear up. Just ask AI to double check to confirm all of the sources are real. Works great.
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philip simon d’amico@Volksgeist_·
@59thProfile @QueenMab87 @DanFKent No, it still hallucinates all the time. I try to use Claude for research on a regular basis and it boldly told me a completely ridiculous lie yesterday that would've ruined the entire project if I didn't notice. It is still not reliable in this way. That is just a fact.
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@dlondonwortel If you compare the per capita rates of housing production during the periods you cite, it becomes clear that blaming yuppies is just as wrong as blaming immigrants.
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Daniel Wortel-London@dlondonwortel·
Gentrification-induced displacement did not accompany previous waves of urban migration. Hence there’s greater skepticism of wealthy transplants in places like NYC today. Comparing yuppies from Connecticut to poor ellis island immigrants is fundamentally misleading.
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@paulg Yet the right in CA is even more opposed to development.
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Paul Graham@paulg·
It's so weird how difficult it is for the left to understand that all you have to do to decrease housing costs is to let people build more housing.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was the most expensive college town in America. Shortly thereafter, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, nominal rents are below 2018 rates—remarkable progress on affordability.

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Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig@MattBruenig·
🚨🚨🚨 NEW 3P PAPER 🚨🚨🚨 The US-Nordic Childcare Gap Ever wanted to know *exactly* in painstaking detail how the Nordic childcare systems work and what the US would need to do to get there? @bd_econ has it covered. Link in next post.
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
I think it is a sense that change is bad and transactions between parties with different levels of wealth are unfair. Here in NYC Pratt keeps coming out with articles about the horrors of property “flipping”. The victims are the owners so sold their property after being bombarded with sale offers.
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Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
I suspect a lot of the moral panic around solar farms/data centers is people conflating “property owner sells property to highest bidder” with “big company seizes property via eminent domain” People’s brains are primed to assume the latter story even when it’s all voluntary.
Alex Fasulo@alex_fasulo

Today I spoke with a local farm owner who has been aggressively approached by SIX different solar companies to lease her acreage. This woman is actively farming and selling produce at local farmer’s markets. This is a foreign corporate invasion that’ll interrupt our future food supply more than people are talking about.

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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@Timodc Is it? She had an opportunity to express support for a well publicized project. She said she wants a meeting to “understand it”. Any developer knows this language. Savvy NIMBYs rarely say no to a project. They kill them with perpetual maybes and requests for more info.
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Peter Moskos
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos·
About 10 years ago there were zero murders in the subway. I think we should go back the policing and subway policies that gave us zero murders.
Nicole@nicolegelinas

I would probably write "man killed in subway attack" rather than "man dies in subway attack," but, little steps for little feet. This is a much better straight-news NYT story than the NYT usually does on these incessant "random" subway murders (we know, because we have a lot of experience now). No "rare." Good! It's not "rare." It hasn't been "rare" since 2019. The more that nearly-seven-years-late latecomers start pointing this out, the more we can fix it, so, welcome, latecomers. nytimes.com/2026/05/08/nyr…

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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@PramilaJayapal Yeah sorry definitely my fault for creating housing for people to rent. Don’t worry, I promise to never build anything in Seattle.
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Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal@PramilaJayapal·
Seattle has one of the worst housing crises in the country. I see it every time I’m home in my district. People working full-time jobs who can’t afford rent. Teachers, nurses, and transit workers who can’t live in the city they serve. Families on housing assistance waiting lists that have been frozen for years. This is a policy failure, not an inevitability. We built this crisis by choosing developers over people. We can choose differently. Housing is a human right. We fight for it like one.
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Dan Kent@DanFKent·
@constans But AirBNB is the opposite side of a rent seeking example. Anti-STR legislation is often led by incumbent hotels that use public policy to shield themselves from market competition, largely at the expense of consumers.
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constans@constans·
The argument here AOC is making is that billionaires frequently make their money via a form of rent seeking, and most of us find condemnation of rent-seeking relatively uncontroversial You can disagree with the specifics but that’s the argument she’s making
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

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