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Colin Higgins

@colinthiggins

Housing Guy.

Boston / DC Katılım Ekim 2011
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rosenkav@rosenkav_·
It's her day 💗
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Amanda Litman@amandalitman·
Mamdani is modeling a new style of next-gen leadership -- one we're going to see more and more of as millennials & gen Z take on positions of power in the next 5+ years. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opi…
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·
I know it's boring and repetitive to talk about how grossly evil Trump is, but the fact remains: Trump is grossly evil, in a way that's pretty much unprecedented in this country.
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Alex Armlovich
Alex Armlovich@aarmlovi·
Thanks to the new @esoltas & Gruber paper, we now have a calibrated econ model built on LA data that can be localized to NYC conditions @NYCMayor's plans to cut 2.5 years off permitting timelines in NYC would be equivalent to a ~20% percent drop in construction costs 🤯
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CSPAN@cspan

.@NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani announces initiative to speed affordable housing development : "New Yorkers cannot afford to wait any longer…What this means, in a tangible sense, is the construction of a thousand additional affordable units on city-owned land across our city."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.
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Jacob Rubashkin@JacobRubashkin·
Found the other other Wes Moore
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Economic Innovation Group
Economic Innovation Group@InnovateEconomy·
We are proud to announce EIG’s Housing Advisory Council, a group of leading experts and practitioners who will help shape our growing body of work on housing supply and affordability. eig.org/policy/housing/
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Paul E Williams
Paul E Williams@PEWilliams_·
The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.
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Colin Higgins@colinthiggins·
@PEWilliams_ Alt history: the TVA is mired in consultative process until 1945, after which 6 smaller dams are built at the tributaries by 1955 and a fraction of the low carbon, affordable, energy is created. But that one family gets to stay on their land.
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Paul E Williams@PEWilliams_·
It pains me to think of how much the anti-abundists would loathe the second coming of FDR. You’re telling me we’re going to flood the Tennessee valley and slap a grid down across the mid-south with nary an environmental review?
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110

Habermas's deliberative democracy stands in contrast with the Abundance crowd who sees democratic deliberation as another red tape that gets in the way of technocratic urban renewal projects

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Adam Jentleson
Adam Jentleson@AJentleson·
Oh give me a break. Schatz is trying to actually pass a bill that would lower housing costs. Do we care about actually helping people or not?
Demand Progress@demandprogress

We’re alarmed that @brianschatz seems to be siding with private equity over Americans’ housing needs, especially when Americans are being crushed by sky-high housing costs. Democrats need leaders willing to prioritize renters and homeowners over Wall Street.

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Eric Levitz
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz·
Amazing. Warren is deliberating trying to choke off investment in the construction of *new* single-family rental properties. This is profoundly regressive. Why is it OK for large investors to build and rent out apartments but not single-family homes? Many working-class Americans don't have high enough incomes or credit scores to buy a home. If we cut off investment in rental houses, then these families won't be able to live in large swathes of America: Roughly 70 percent of all residential land is zoned for single-family residences. The only way for working-class people to live in many affluent suburbs -- and access their high-performing schools -- is to rent a house. For this reason, corporate investment in single-family homes reduces socioeconomic segregation. Warren's policy effectively helps rich people keep working-class renters out of their towns -- while reducing the overall supply of housing and nudging up rents. It prioritizes populist symbolism over progressive outcomes.
Igor Bobic@igorbobic

Warren says the housing bill does *not* have a drafting error, as Schatz said today Rare Dem leadership split “The policy is to block private equity from taking over the single family home, and that is quite deliberate. There are some folks in private equity who don't like that, but it's a very deliberate choice that is supported on a bipartisan basis by 90 senators.”

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Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
Take 6 minutes and listen to @brianschatz break down exactly what's wrong with a specific provision in the ROAD to Housing bill. Rare to see a US senator engage in the nitty-gritty policy details like this, but it really matters for actually making progress on the housing crisis.
Paul E Williams@PEWilliams_

An excellent speech worth watching from @brianschatz. Fixing the BTR provision in ROAD to Housing is the way to ensure it can be the biggest housing supply bill in decades.

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Connor O’Brien
Connor O’Brien@cojobrien·
Build-to-Rent single-family homes improve affordability, expand supply, are pro-family, and should not be arbitrarily nuked by Congress.
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