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Howard Slatkin

@hslatkin

Urban planner, New Yorker. Proponent of democracy. 🇺🇸 Executive Director, @chpcny. Views here = my own. Don’t reply to anonymous accounts.

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Truly, when one’s goal is to see less housing built and drive up home prices, a grab bag of haphazard policy choices is like an all-you-can-eat buffet

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To JD Vance, denouncing Nazis is "guilt by association cancel culture." He's partly right. Embracing Nazis is guilt by association. Voting for a candidate who refuses to denounce Nazis - who embraces their support! - is unconscionable. Un-American. #voteblue 🇺🇸

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And McCain apologized publicly and directed his campaign to edit the ad to remove the footage. Just like … <checks notes> … never mind. There is more patriotism in John McCain where he lies today than there has ever been in Donald Trump.

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Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice

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If you went to a job interview and told the interviewer “I have concepts of a plan” in that tone of voice you’d go straight home to search the listings again

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As a professional planner, I am obligated to dispel this sort of whataboutism. “Having a plan“ does not mean having legislation in hand, with all details nailed down. It means having a thought-out strategy to get from current condition A to desired future condition B.

As a professional planner, I am obligated to dispel this sort of whataboutism. 

“Having a plan“ does not mean having legislation in hand, with all details nailed down.

It means having a thought-out strategy to get from current condition A to desired future condition B.
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housing market appreciation between 1984 and 2021 explains 70 percent of the increase in the median White-Black wealth gap over this period. But most of this effect is due to White-Black gaps in homeownership, not appreciation differences by neighborhood academic.oup.com/socpro/advance…