We need non market social housing, not to make housing authorities beholden to market logics and capital markets. Is it not clear from that discussion that "left abundance" is just warmed over neoclassical pablum and we can get to building actual socialist alternatives?

There's an actual struggle within housing authorities about what public development means. We are losing and they (market idealogues) are winning that contest. I think it's important we call out the dishonesty of that project and their distortions. We need real public finance.

I’m old enough to remember people freaking out about Zohran Mamdani’s plan for 5 city-owned nonprofit grocery stores.

When the sole materially reliable incentive to production is surplus-labor- extraction, production is possible only as long as exploitable populations are growing. The solitary alternative is different productive arrangements. But apparently that's beyond central banks' purview.

The elephant in the room re: "housing politics" in this country is that only the socialist left is honest about the need to deflate speculative investment in the housing market. Red Vienna wasn't the product of little land use reforms, it was the product of crashing the market.

Did Elon have some special way around the various regulations etc? Not really. What he had is a cult of people that were excited to give him money, which further makes me think that the existing barrier to built abundance is something on the financial side.

Today, farmers are making less and food costs more for us. So who’s making all the money? John Deere! Cargill! JBS! Walmart! Dollar General!

Lots of good things in the ACA. No denying it. But things like removing preexisting conditions, etc. came from *additional* regulation, and the biggest driver of uninsurance closure was the expansion of a state program — Medicaid

No matter the damage of your actions, just don't pay attention and keep doing exactly what you want. This is not an inspirational idea, it's psychopathic behavior.

Showdown for killing Humphreys once and for all. Even SCOTUS didnt want to go all the way there. This is the endgame of his vision and it will continue to cut like a hot knife through decrepit butter until a stronger counter vision is presented. Status quo preservation ain't it.

This is the make or break moment for Powell's Federal Reserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece.

we need social housing and public banks authorized to lend for social housing construction more than we ever have

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

@lucykwiatek.bsky.social Alicia Gerardo *an* alternative. And part of the reason we're here is the insistence on the legitimacy of technocratic institutional norms long after they have ceased working as stated

A coherent democratic party would seek to understand it's internal critics at a time of crisis and failure. Instead it laments its failures as the inevitability of things being difficult and accepts crushing poverty as a necessary trade off to having "well functioning banks"

Excruciating to live through this collapse and know that the only way out is through even worse times.

We got an interview with Maine's populist Senate candidate Graham Platner, part of a growing group of "fighters from the working class" who are bellwethers for the ongoing debate over the Democratic coalition’s future. Austin Ahlman reports: prospect.org/politics/2025-…

"the distribution of resources needs to happen at the level where things are being produced" Love seeing this sort of language about predistribution and market crafting rather than the typical democratic pablum. Very good development.

Don't let these market fundamentalist propagandists get away with this revisionist bullshit. A revolving loan fund that turns the idea of public development into a market subsidy isn't an answer. It's degrading what's possible and what's needed: Non market social housing.