jason knight

An entity like @GreatSchools peddling school rankings to sell to @zillow to jack up FOMO and prices in housing submarkets that won't share data with researchers or parents is as reputable as...fuck all. Never trust data and rankings that can't be researched by third parties.

@smartcitiesdive @HUDgov Yippee...let's use a short-term pricing problem into justification to continue to be the only country in the planet to willingly, and stupidly, continue to destroy the planet.

@HUDgov and the Department of Agriculture announced a rollback of energy efficiency standards for certain single-family and multifamily housing construction projects. smartcitiesdive.com/news/housing-e…

@davidjmadden But David, the free market will always repair its own failures. P.S. Another semester teaching a housing course where students were assigned, and loved, In Defense of Housing.

"changes in tenure mix and the distribution of stock are central to the collapse in meeting housing need." Yes: and we shouldn't expect real estate capital to solve the problems caused by real estate capitalism bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@shilensays More bad owners, more failure to come. Can't swap out parts with the same business model. At some point, the model is the problem, not players and coaches.

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@JasonBassler1 Can we make a bet, I mean prediction, on Kalshi? end times

We’ve officially reached the part of the timeline where war crimes are pitched like product features.

@SecretaryTurner @HousingWire Like increasing the cost of fuel tat drives every single component of home construction? You can repeat the lie enough to try to make it fact, but eventually, like Goebbels, the lies catch up to you.

It was great to be back in my home state of Texas to announce HUD’s rollback of costly, Biden-era green energy mandates that added over $20,000 to the cost of a home for hardworking Americans. The Trump Administration is using every tool in the toolkit to expand housing supply and lower costs for aspiring homeowners across the country.

OK, had a moment there doomscrolling and doom responding. Time to check out for another however long it's been.

@JDale_Shoemaker And you're doing it! Thank you.

I'm coming up on 4 years at IPost. Before I took this job, I was a beat reporter in South Carolina and had never stepped foot in Buffalo. Moved here sight unseen. Best decision I've made yet. IP turns good reporters to great ones & gives you a platform to do really serious work.

Here is 2 minutes of Donald Trump on the 2024 campaign trail pledging to lower your energy and electric bills by 50% within 12 months of taking office. Can we get an update on this from MAGA?

@PolicyEngineer One man trucks. End of story. Deploy the other two on the million other things that need fixing in our cities.

NYC for many years had 3-man crews on garbage trucks solely because the union demanded it. Albany is considering this giveaway for the same reason.

@Bobby4Brooklyn So not inn addition to the endless gazillions we spend on law enforcement, we need more surveillance? No thanks. Maybe have cops do their jobs better and let us get some ROI on that investment? What company that sells these devices is funding you?

Let's get this done. Habitual speeders who continue to drive recklessly after receiving dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of tickets require NYS to take extraordinary measures, such as installing speed-limiting devices.

@ChrisMurphyCT Then fucking do something about it. How about that? So sick of electeds admiring the problem on social media, pretending they have no agency, just so they have campaign fodder for the next election cycle. Fix the fucking system or get out of the way and let someone else try

Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

@jacobin Citizens United against the citizens. Our country is a kleptocracy where the unelecteds in black robes grant electeds the one thing they wanted most: freedom to call bribes campaign contributions.

The American people are now paying the highest prices for medicines that they paid to help develop. Congress and the president have the power to change this — but in the past few decades, thanks to intense drug industry lobbying, they have refused to. jacobin.com/2026/04/drug-p…

@hernandezforny Tells us about our federal tax waste on waging war. I'll hang up and listen.

Today I went to the New York State Capitol to see the Million Dollar Staircase where Albany Democrats have spent $72 MILLION to repair just 72 stairs. This is what one-party rule looks like. No accountability. No oversight. Just taxpayer money being burned while New Yorkers struggle to afford everyday life. And where is State Comptroller @TomDiNapoli? The one person whose job is to be the watchdog over state spending has been completely silent. New Yorkers deserve a Comptroller who actually audits waste, calls it out, and stops it, not one who looks the other way while millions disappear into projects like this.

@ByGerrySullivan Cuz we don't have unlicensed ATVs and dirt bikes ripping down them?

Why do people in the Western New York suburbs do this thing where they have perfectly good sidewalks, but then they choose to walk their dog in the middle of the road

The mic cut out during O Canada at the Sabres game. Buffalo filled every single second of silence. Sang it word for word. This is how you tell your neighbors you see them. We love Canada. Don’t listen to the noise.

@LindsayLorigo @markpoloncarz Imagine if you had any policy skills and experience instead of just being a puppet nepo-pol? Cap the gas tax, that's the best earth-shattering affordability idea you got? While then saying we need more investment in infrastructure. Typical unserious dissonant propaganda.

Lame duck @markpoloncarz only gave bush league ideas in his 2026 State of the County. Erie County residents deserve someone who actually respects their tax dollars and cares about affordability. buffalonews.com/opinion/letter…

@RobCGalbraith Can't wait to vote for a GOP governor for the first time. Why continue to vote for a DINO when I can just vote for the real deal. They both suck but she's literally the worst governor in my lifetime and can barely pretend to be a Dem.

Hochul should be getting her tax policy advice from New Yorkers who work for a living - 62% of whom support taxing the rich - not some random guy who moved from Chicago to Florida who just so happens to have billions of dollars

@TheBuffaloNews Good.

After Wegmans disclosed that some stores collect biometric data from customers, the Erie County Legislature appears ready to ban biometric data collection from commercial establishments in the county. buffalonews.com/news/local/art…