LSE on the growth Ponzi scheme blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019…

Made my podcast debut talking about placemaking and economic develop on Develop This! developthis.libsyn.com/dt-155-the-qua…

Planning a community event? Don’t go it alone! Partner with great community partners to bring your event to life and get more buy in from your community. Revive Mktg #alleghenytogether #communitybuilding

Spillovers of viruses from animals is due to land-use, specifically encroachment of habitat. So, increasing density of human settlements might actually curb future viruses. From the The Atlantic

1/My partner and I are renovating a house which, of course, brings up a lot of thoughts. We live in Pittsburgh, house was relatively a good deal - 1920s era, brick, new roof, new sub pump in basement. Just needs cosmetic upgrades.

2/ We’ve spent the last week tearing out carpets and prepping to paint. It’s fun! I feel like an HGTV star! But I also recognize that it’s a privilege to be able to do this and that expecting young people to renovate your housing stock is not an affordable housing strategy.

3/ Making this point because I’ve run across leadership in so many Rust Belt cities and towns who question why they would want to build apartments/ADUs/ missing middle. “We have so much housing! Why wouldn’t people want to buy a house?”

4/ So many reasons! Not everyone is able to renovate a house or hire contractors (who are in short supply) to do so. Seriously it’s tough work. Also, not everyone wants to sink their roots in your town with out testing it out by living in a rental situation.

5/We’re also lucky that we have friends to help and advise us. It’s a lot harder for newcomers without a network to take on housing renovation.

6/ So if you’re hoping that the exodus out of cities (concept of which is sus) is going to have people flocking to the low real estate prices in your community, you might want to allow some Missing Middle housing to facilitate a soft landing.

7/ and you might want to allow it to house people for whom buying (and renovating) a whole old house doesn’t make sense. Like young people, older people, and differently abled people.

One of many galaxy brain moments in @HarleyFEtienne's class was him explaining that local and state govt are bastions of middle class jobs for Black people and women due to less discriminatory hiring practices. Now, 26% (4m) of those jobs are at risk nytimes.com/2020/08/14/bus…

This job is calling your name Cards Against Urbanity

🎉Happy 21st of September!! earthwindandfire.lnk.to/listenAS See you tonight! EarthWindAndFire.com 🏄🏿‍♂️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏽

Extremely excited that a project I worked on has received am #ELGLHaverford award! elgl.org/21-fourth-econ…

TRB 👏 NEEDS 👏 MORE 👏DIVERSITY 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Did I shazam the EDA vibey webinar opening music? I did. youtube.com/watch?v=lAPHwZ…

Talking circle with NDN Collective and Elevate Rapid City tour on fourth day of IEDC project in #SouthDakota #Gr8FacesGr8Places

The newest EDRP report is here! Read the full report to learn how EDOs can reduce barriers to work and create pathways that allow impacted people to join the workforce: bit.ly/3QXy3bf

I talk for about 200 seconds on NPR today about how the town of East Palestine is doing. It requires a big investment to report each of those seconds. By supporting journalism in Pittsburgh, you're also supporting it for 10s of millions of others... 1/ wesa.fm/identity-commu…