I don't plan events just because. But what we've learned @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social over the last 10+ yrs of @plcc.bsky.social is that we are better when we are all working together & learning from each other. Please join us for this free eTOD event in Sept! www.umdsmartgrowth.org/affordable-c...
Affordable & Connected Communities 2026 – NCSG
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Answers the question « If it is so low margin why does anyone want to be in the grocery business
Isabella M. Weber@isabellamweber.bsky.social · 2w agoGrocery margins are low is a frequently rehashed point to argue against Mamdani’s public grocery stores. Grocery is indeed a low margin business. But its median return on invested capital is above that for all firms, so it is NOT a low profitability business. Let me explain. 🧵
Another way to say this is that a rising homeownership rate can result from rising distress among potential renter households.
Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 4w agoUS homeownership rate is conventionally described as being ~ 65%. But that measure fails to take into account the large number of adults living in homes where *other* adults actually own the homes. People like young adults, elderly, friends. Once you account for that, the rate declines to… 53%.
Whatever you think about AI, it has forever killed "just learn to code" ... and that's a clear win. And just to be clear, JLTC was always a terrible idea.
Also can we put to bed the canard that playing in MLS will ruin your career?
Play boring soccer, find out. England can spend the next 4 years getting their CDLs if they want to learn to park a bus a little better.
Employment rate for native-born men is down 1.6 percentage points from two years ago.
Public housing policy has long been shaped by myths and distrust, but RAD shows what can happen when systems change.When it comes to formal evictions, RAD does not push tenants out of their affordable housing. This finding doesn’t settle all concerns, but it does clarify an important piece.
Seen more than one instance of raids on US NGOs by Trump-Miller goons this week.
Trump administration deploys federal agents to intimidate legal services nonprofits representing unaccompanied immigrant children
Washington, DC, June 12, 2026 – Over the past 48 hours, in the latest example of intimidation tactics, agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)...
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How screwed up is FIFA’s pricing? Fans from two of the richest countries in the world, Switzerland and Qatar, weren’t willing to pay for tickets in the bottom bowl for their opening game!
With the Hormuz crisis reaching into nearly every aspect of life & inflation surging, many have wondered why our economy hasn't sunk. The answer is we're running a federal deficit that's equal to Biden's 2021 stimulus, & more than 2x the Obama 2009 stimulus. Even horribly untargeted stimulus works.
Aftermath: The Economy Is Propped Up by Government Spending - The American Prospect
In today’s edition, we highlight an underdiscussed reason why damage from the war hasn’t eaten the U.S. economy: fiscal stimulus.
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Announcing the winners of the 2026 Ivory Prize!!!!!🏆 The City of Chattanooga TradesFutures The City of New Rochelle The City of Boston: Boston Acquisition Fund @housing.boston.gov We’re excited to recognize these visionaries tackling the housing crisis! www.ivoryinnovations.org/ivory-prize
« I view Trump as Chemo…America has Cancer. Trump is toxic, and I think he’s killing the cancer faster than he’s killing the rest of us. » Is the likely rationale for so many hanging on in his coalition, not recognizing that each described the other as part of the cancer www.ft.com/content/8e32...
Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson: ‘I’m starting a fight’
The influential church leader on his ties to Pete Hegseth, dismantling the fences of liberal democracy — and why Trump is ‘like chemo’
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Inflation Adjusted House Prices 2.6% Below 2022 Peak Price-to-rent index is 9.9% below 2022 peak calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/inflation-...
Inflation Adjusted House Prices 2.6% Below 2022 Peak
Price-to-rent index is 9.9% below 2022 peak
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Zillow: "Zillow economists just published their updated 12-month forecast, projecting that U.S. home prices—as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index—will shift +0.0% between March 2026 and March 2027." With 3% inflation, that is a decline in real prices.
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
Requiring collective action by often low resource households and absent investors who both view themselves as independent owners, a distressed condo is one of the most difficult challenges in housing policy.
Danilo Pelletiere@dcpelletiere.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis article is good on how we can encourage condos but glosses over very real problems older and low income condos face in the US from lack of maintenance, investors milking units, and loss of equity.
This article is good on how we can encourage condos but glosses over very real problems older and low income condos face in the US from lack of maintenance, investors milking units, and loss of equity.
Danilo Pelletiere@dcpelletiere.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe need to be talking about Condos more
The experience in DC achieving Mayor Bowser’s housing goals has been similar, even as the rest of the region lagged in new construction housing.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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Eviction Lab@evictionlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago“From 2015 to 2024, Austin added 120,000 units to its housing stock—an increase of 30%, more than three times the overall rate of growth in the United States (9%).”
New “Raising the Bar” report available here discusses some successes and lessons learned from Mayor Bowser’s 36k/12k housing goals housing.dc.gov
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Just received an @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social AI call: “KP: Is this Danilo? Yes KP: Is Danilo able to come to the phone? Yes KP: would you be willing to take a message? This is Danilo, but yes KP: OK good bye.” So my sense is they may want to get humans to do the work for a while longer.
Help us keep DC streets in a state of good repair. #DDOTDC crews are out patching potholes across the District. 📍 Kenilworth Avenue Freeway See a pothole? Report it at 🔗 311.dc.gov, and crews will respond, and most repairs are completed within 72 hours.
Here’s the thing, if consumers paid (most of) the tariffs, will we get (most of) the refunds?
Not great. bsky.app/profile/eric...
Erica Groshen@ericagroshen.bsky.social · 6mo agoBad news today. The administration finalized a plan to remove civil service protections from about 50,000 federal workers, with no exemption for statistical or scientific agency personnel. This erodes protection of those agencies from political influence. www.govexec.com/workforce/20... #econsky
