Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

My piece in Technical.ly. The real drivers of lasting change are the systems, ecosystems, and “multipliers” that empower communities to solve big challenges together. Why investing in these shared foundations matters for Philly and beyond technical.ly/civic-news/com…

Some of us are starting a Pro-Housing Philly grassroots pro-housing advocacy group here, and we're having a kick-off event next week on 6/3 at the Pen & Pencil Club. If you have liked or retweeted 5 pro-housing tweets in the last year, you have to come! actionnetwork.org/events/pro-hou…

New budget just dropped. The Mayor's Office closed the $800M+ deficit by cutting 1,400 positions and trimming the fat across departments while preserving public safety and street cleaning budgets AND creating a $400M rainy day fund. About time! growsf.org/news/2025-05-3…

Where’s the data? You can’t redevelop vacant property if you don’t know where it is. inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Quality residential vacancy data seems pretty important for achieving Mayor Parker’s housing goals. I hope they start doing the survey work again

Definitely an idea #Philly should steal, raising funds for SEPTA!

Step back to the early 20th century and the era of "open-air schools"—classrooms without walls designed to fight diseases like tuberculosis with fresh air and sunlight. They soon proved to boost creativity, independence, and a strong bond with nature in students.

Philly Gov's claim that the City only inspects its properties “if someone complains” isn’t stewardship—it’s abdication.

France has spent at least $1.6 billion turning the sewage-laden river Seine into one clean enough to swim in for the first time in over a century reut.rs/3GmAwey

Obama's right - you can care about working people all you want, but if byzantine zoning laws and regulations prevent building housing, families still can't afford homes. The housing crisis needs actual solutions, we need to move far past just the idea of good intentions.

The average number of people living in a house has dropped by 34% since 1950 This means that even with no population growth, cities can experience a housing shortage A city of 1M residents in 1950 only needed 263k homes A city of 1M residents today needs 400k homes

The SEPTA cuts are so unfathomable to me that I keep thinking the situation will sort itself out and it’s just not happening. August is almost here. Bus routes straight up disappearing are just weeks away.

Obvious to everyone else.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. wapo.st/3IUlj5O