“All capital for non-market housing shouldn’t come from government, but all government (housing) capital should be for non-market housing”: Ricardo Tranjan at the #CHRACongress

i know i have a strong bias here given i've been in Oil Country for most of the past year but as i get ready to leave truly i do not see anything 'happening' beyond business as usual. there is a lot of back-patting about how much safer, more efficient the industry is now

Very happy and honored for this recognition! A seguir estudiando sobre las posibilidades y los conflictos de la bioenergía en la Orinoquia Colombiana :)

Pretty horrible look for the White House to get cold feet on a rule mandated in the Fair Housing Act of *1968*
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Going to re-up Amee Chew #FreePalestine 🇵🇸' piece in Jacobin on the importance of public housing as a central plank for any broader push on social housing jacobin.com/2024/04/public…

The academic capitalism fix for inadequate public funding for higher education, redux.

Heather Knight's move to the NYT to bring a national platform to this is illustrative of the conquest of American liberalism by the brand of fascism incubating in San Francisco

Pinochet murdered thousands of people, including some tossed from helicopters on “death rides.”
When people talk about San Francisco tech “moderates,” they are talking about extremists like Lee…who was quoted in the NYT last week comparing progressives to communist. Well…

Once again: the Manhattan Institute is the single most malignant force in American politics at the level of ideology, serving as the most important contemporary intellectual foundry for white supremacist thought.

Great line from db's piece on Curbed.'
'In the 1980s, [David] lived in Manhattan Plaza, a federally subsidized affordable-housing complex designed for artists.' That's right folks, socialized artists' housing helped give us Larry David.

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How tenant unions are finding power in numbers to fight L.A.’s housing crisis

Today in the L.A. Times by LATU and La Union de Vecinos, Local Este de SILA organizers Annie Powers & Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate

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There is no question that it’s the resurgence of tenant movements that has put rent control back on the agenda proteanmag.com/2024/02/18/ren…

My bill to expand access to housing for renters with pets is out of policy committee!

Nearly 70% of renters in California have pets, yet renters with pets often struggle to find units, due to blanket bans and high added fees, or find themselves forced to abandon or hide their…

I was only partially right (it won’t get built) and partially wrong (they did all the suffering anyway)
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War Is Peace
Freedom Is Slavery
Ignorance Is Strength
Protests are Illiberal

I think one of my biggest problems with contemporary liberal politics is how much time people spend screaming at refs that don't exist. There's nobody there to enforce the norms but you. There are no stable rules. There's only power. That should be clear by now.

Tenant power means that this is what the phrase “evictions are violent” will look like.