Daniel Koslovsky
@dtkoslovsky.bsky.social
Staff writer at Chicago Policy Review MPP Candidate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Household and Consumer Finance | Housing Policy | Urban Policy
A candidate for alderman asked me to provide them with background reading on housing, and it turned into quite a list! I enjoyed putting it together, so I thought I'd also share it here. I've organized into three categories: describing the problem, describing solutions, and partnership solutions 🧵
tell you what i'd do man, play two qbs at the same time
Brandon Marcello@brandonmarcello.bsky.social · 5d agoUtah plays two quarterbacks at once. One throws right-handed. The other is left-handed. Both can run. And defenses don't have an answer. "I think we're just kind of scratching the surface," says OC Kevin McGiven. Inside #CFB's most creative offense: www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
Only in 2026: “We’re going to take away your healthcare through work requirements but you can have it back if you do enough gambling.” www.aei.org/commentary/t...
Many are saying it’s time for Chicago to do the same
Let’s fix the plumbing code
Lead and oakum joints belong in museums
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Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 3w agoMomentum is building for Mamdani to reform NYC’s plumbing code and allow plastics in piping www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/n...
My next article in the @acitythatworks.bsky.social building code series is up, doing a deep dive on the plumbing code. Come to learn about the one weird trick the city could use to shave 5% off construction costs, stay to learn about the 19th century joint coupling method the city still mandates!
Let’s fix the plumbing code
Lead and oakum joints belong in museums
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it's Cincinnati Open week so I have created a map of all the locations of all the biggest tournaments on the annual tennis calendar
A have a piece up today in A City That Works, introducing a series on where the Chicago building code is ripe for reform with an eye towards improving housing affordability.
A plan to cut construction costs
Four changes to boost construction across Chicago
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Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
The real answer--as adopted by progressive advocates around the country, and electeds from Pritzker to Johnson to Mamdani--is that getting rid of regulations that require million-dollar mansions and investing in affordable housing are complementary policies, not at odds with each other.
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 5mo agoThere are currently six BUILD bills in the state Senate aimed at increasing housing and lowering costs. "Yet there’s one thing missing in each bill: a requirement to build affordable housing," write Carolina Sternberg and Jesse Mumm of DePaul University.
Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)
Many people are saying… www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/onli...
Opinion: Online sports betting is too risky for Illinois families and communities
Illinois shouldn’t balance its budget through an industry exploiting its citizens’ love for its pastimes.
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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 7mo agoUbiquitously advertised betting available through the computer you carry in your pocket via apps designed and managed by ruthlessly efficient data scientists and programmers seems like a mistake. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
It’s called an elevated train because it’s users are morally superior to drivers
Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Jason Meisner@jmetr22b.bsky.social · 11mo ago///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
Everyday in which the invasion of Chicago by a paramilitary organization hunting and abducting people for the color of their skin is not the lead story for national media is an abhorrent dereliction of their duty
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11mo agoCongratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)
My latest article is up at the @chicagopolicy.bsky.social. Congestion pricing — going well in NYC! Would also go well in CHI! But hey, it’s not like there are any local governments that could use an extra $1 billion/year in revenue around here 🤷♂️ @andrefor40th.bsky.social
The Second City: Why Chicago Should Implement America’s Next Congestion Pricing | Chicago Policy Review
After a lengthy, contentious, and still ongoing political process, New York City became the first American city to implement congestion pricing in January of this year. Despite fierce opposition, the ...
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"If Chicago wants to keep pace as one of America’s leading cities, it’s time for it to follow suit [NYC] and implement congestion pricing of its own." - @dtkoslovsky.bsky.social @chicagopolicy.bsky.social chicagopolicyreview.org/2025/10/22/t...
The Second City: Why Chicago Should Implement America’s Next Congestion Pricing | Chicago Policy Review
After a lengthy, contentious, and still ongoing political process, New York City became the first American city to implement congestion pricing in January of this year. Despite fierce opposition, the ...
chicagopolicyreview.org
🚨🏡🏗️ I’m in A City That Works looking at a new housing study and its implications for Chicago. Minneapolis enacted major zoning reform in 2020 to combat rising housing costs. It worked, but not in the way most housing advocates would expect. It’s time for Chicago to follow Minneapolis’ lead.
Housing lessons from Minneapolis
Midwestern cities can control housing costs too
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I like this post because it recognizes that there's a push and a pull with new housing. There's a supply effect of new units pulling prices down, but also new amenities that make a place more desirable and push prices up. This is hard to disentangle IRL because new housing isn't randomly allocated.
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · last yr.I just want to say again that building more densely very often does *increase* hyperlocal property values because density brings amenities. this sometimes gets glossed over.
Guest contributor Daniel Koslovsky put on his policy analyst hat to write a quick cost-benefit analysis of saving Chicagoland transit from the $771M fiscal cliff, and investing $1.5B to improve service. @stevevance.net @betterstreetschicago.org @ctaction.org @chicagocta.bsky.social
A quick-and-dirty cost-benefit analysis of averting the Chicagoland transit fiscal cliff by fully funding our public transportation system - Streetsblog Chicago
By Daniel Koslovsky As the $771 million total northeast Illinois transit fiscal cliff looms, public transportation agencies and advocates are calling for $1.5 billion in additional yearly state fundin...
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