Katherine Levine Einstein

Excited that @davidmglick @MaxwellBPalmer and my book Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis comes out November 2019! @CUP_PoliSci (1/3) bit.ly/housingpolitics

@jon_m_rob @MoCoCouncilMD @cantstopkevin @MaxwellBPalmer @davidmglick Thanks for collecting this info and sharing! It's unfortunately not surprising how well this finding replicates.

@MoCoCouncilMD @cantstopkevin ty @MaxwellBPalmer @katherineeinst @davidmglick for writing Neighborhood Defenders and inspiring this analysis :)

The @MoCoCouncilMD shouldn't let the 20815 zip code dictate housing policy for a county of ~1M people. We have so many better, representative avenues for citizen input on the most important issues facing our region than government by "community" meeting

🥳New paper! "Do Housing Supply Skeptics Learn?"🎆 Yessir, they do! And when they do, they become *much* more supportive of market-rate housing development. 1/🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Local offices–like city councilors, mayors, and county legislators–are the most common elected offices in the US. But what determines local election outcomes and what are the consequences of these elections? Our paper out today should help answer those Qs: nature.com/articles/s4159…

@Expeditionswork @MarkRuffalo @nytimes Thanks! We have a one-page summary of my work with @davidmglick and @MaxwellBPalmer here: politicsofhousing.com/research/neigh…. The people who attend meetings like this one are unrepresentative (and more privileged) than the broader community, and disproportionately opposed to new housing.

@MarkRuffalo @nytimes There’s a whole body of research which proves that the people who attend these meetings are richer, whiter, and generally own property then the median resident in the neighborhood. Start here with @katherineeinst et al work in this matter: scholar.google.com/citations?view…

It's in poor taste for the @nytimes to mislead the public with a clickbait title. Out of the 58 people who attended the LPC Public comment period, only 14 from the community wanted to tear down the building—most of them congregants. That's 4-1 against the hardship. 4 "celebrities" out of all those people spoke. All people who perform in these very spaces. That's what matters—not celebrities.

Lead article of @BostonGlobeMag today: For decades, suburbs of Boston have been zoning children out of new apartment buildings. bostonglobe.com/2023/06/12/mag…

@scrosenzweig @CambridgeUP @CUP_PoliSci Congrats!!

Today our team, supported by @RockefellerFdn, released the final set of findings from the 2022 #MeninoSurvey, the only nationally representative survey of American mayors. Read about mayors’ views on key economic and public health + safety challenges: bit.ly/2022MSOM 🧵⤵️

🚨📄 out now in @nature @ScientificData with @tylersimko: rdcu.be/c7Hq3 We introduce LocalView: a comprehensive dataset of over 100,000 real-time U.S. local government public meeting videos from 1,000+ localities (and counting). 🧵 1/5

Ready to measure density in your neighborhood? We’re excited to announce the official release of #Residensity, our new site for measuring & exploring residential density & housing type anywhere in MA! Now available to everyone.🏡📊🥳🎉mhp.net/residensity 1/ @KimDriscollMA

@AlliPatter @KearnsErinM Yes, @davidmglick and I have been doing a Wire-based political science lecture course for almost a decade now. Happy to share a syllabus!

Hopefully, this will come with strong federal incentives to both state and local governments to reform their zoning to allow for more multifamily housing and greater housing density--policies that will allow residents at a variety of income levels to find housing. 6/

In contrast, the Biden Administration's Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness connects homelessness, the local housing supply, and restrictive land use and zoning. 5/

In a new policy brief supported by @cmtysolutions , @CharleyWillison and I analyze whether cities connect homelessness with their local land use/zoning policies. 1/ community.solutions/wp-content/upl…

Today our team, supported by @RockefellerFdn, released the first findings from the 2022 #MeninoSurvey, the only nationally representative survey of American mayors. Read how mayors are addressing the #ClimateCrisis in their cities: bit.ly/mayorsclimate 🧵⬇️

The state government in Massachusetts isn't tracking any of this systemically. We were able to describe the size and restrictions on subsidized units thanks to data from @housingnav_ma. /5

As @amydain points out, the discretionary process by which most suburbs produce multifamily housing is a big part of the problem. We identified multiple community meetings where residents worried about new children moving in, and the pressures they would place on schools. /4

This is an especially big problem for subsidized housing. In this year's @bostonfdn Housing Report Card, @MaxwellBPalmer and I found that, in some Boston suburbs, virtually all of the subsidized housing is restricted to seniors. /1