Lots of cities have minimum heat requirements for tenants in winter but far fewer address the dangers of high temperatures that are increasingly common.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · yesterday

On average between 2018 and 2025, some 9,000 deaths each year in the United States were impacted by heat—far more than reported in official government statistics. Climate change is increasing the death toll.

Our new analysis finds that states that tax high earners produce more millionaires. This is no surprise: Investing in an educated workforce, childcare, and reliable transit strengthens the economy and pays back dividends for everyone, including the rich. 1/4

These pied-à-terre arguments just don’t add up. $400k in 1986 was triple the avg home cost then & is the equivalent of over a million now. The person was not poor & if they can’t afford the tax they can live there, have their family live there, or sell it and buy a condo and pocket $4 million.

This was one of mine. Civil enforcement of unlawful lockouts are challenging but no one should lose their home without due process especially when grieving a loved one or recovering from an injury.

New York Attorney General Letitia James@newyorkstateag.bsky.social · last mo.

Spigro Management violated the trust and safety of New York City tenants by illegally changing their locks while they were not home in an attempt to evict residents. These actions are as sinister as they are shameful. Now, we're getting restitution for these tenants.

Honored to be in @lpeproject.bsky.social about the need for a power analysis in affordability politics. Narrow technocratic or deregulatory "affordability" misses the point: affordability is about confronting power dynamics at the core of the cost of living crisis. lpeproject.org/blog/afforda...

Affordability Politics Needs a Power Analysis

A renewed focus on the cost of living crisis is a welcome and potentially unifying frame for the political left. Yet unless we confront the Trump administration's consolidated economic, cultural…

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This is one of my projects. My theory was that owners who broke the law & created illegal units that would qualify a building as de facto rent stabilized would also be more likely to ignore court orders. gothamist.com/news/brookly...

Brooklyn landlords hid rent-stabilized units from tenants, NY attorney general says

Attorney General Letitia James said tenants were charged market rents for units that should have been subject to rent regulation.

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So when is the parade?

This is one of my cases. The Tenants Counsel Network used deceptive marketing and provided few results aimed at tenants facing eviction. As part of the deal the firm will close down and refund $172k back to the tenants.

New York Attorney General Letitia James@newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm shutting down the Tenants Counsel Network, a law firm that trapped New Yorkers facing eviction in illegal agreements, made them pay monthly fees, and failed to provide legal services.   Now, we're getting the New Yorkers who were cheated their hard-earned money back.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

A Rochester landlord failed to inform low-income families of their rights before forcing them out of their homes for reconstruction. My office secured compensation for these residents and we're ensuring they can return to their homes. I'll always fight for tenants in New York.

The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month." www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Our politics have become so bleak that this effort from Mamdani feels almost otherworldly, as though it cannot be real that someone in government is showing concern for poor people.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This should exist in every city in the country.

BlueSky, a real estate company, consistently forced tenants to live in dangerous and unsanitary conditions, putting the safety of families at risk.  We secured over $672,000 from BlueSky to put money back into New Yorkers’ pockets and require safer and cleaner buildings.

My office and NYS HCR are suing Peak, a real estate developer, for illegally deregulating rent stabilized apartments in New York City. Peak deceived tenants and housing regulators to line their pockets and overcharge New Yorkers as affordable housing grew more scarce.

Mamdani names his transition team housing committee

In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…

Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org · 10mo ago

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

'In limiting spending on long-term housing to just 30 percent of the $3.5 billion in aid — from about 90 percent this year — the Trump plan would deal a crippling blow to a movement called Housing First."

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Their 50-year mortgage plan bombed & they won’t build housing or touch Wall Street landlords, so they’re hoping you blame your high rent on immigrants.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

NYC is full of nerds. The municipal archives gave 1 day notice of a two day book sale. Here is what’s left of the NYC history and politics table after the first 2 hours.

<NY Post for the next 2 months> Mayor Commdani, who 1,019,870 real New Yorkers voted against, is to blame for _______.

Looks like a terrible night for unlikable billionaires and/or sex offenders!!! Here's a thread of what today's election across the country means for housing. (1)

My politics are the joy of solidarity around Marathon Sunday.

Really great to see Sandy Nurse, her City Council colleagues, and the Court address the futility doctrine and other loopholes that promote illegal lockouts.

Gothamist@gothamist.com · 10mo ago

A Brooklyn woman spent three years in a shelter after her landlord locked her out https://gothamist.com/news/a-brooklyn-woman-spent-three-years-in-a-shelter-after-her-landlord-locked-her-out

This is the deciding factor for when I’m voting

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 10mo ago

HUGE HUGE HUGE YES there will be Halloween voting stickers AND “a borough specific sticker for each day of EV” says the BOE!! plan your early voting accordingly

Is there a website where I can put bets on Eric Adams & Andrew Cuomo leaving the city again before the end of 2026?

It is that time of year where New Yorkers find out that more of our neighbors are students who are homeless. This year tally comes out to 154,000 or nearly 1 in 7 students. There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...

154,000 NYC Students Were Homeless Last School Year, Another Record High

The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, is larger than the entire Dallas school system.

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Thinking about what lead to a 2017 graduation cap with Mickey Mouse ears being put into my trash can during a nor’easter.

Today’s unwanted text is from Eric Adams PAC. I would love to know how he’s corrected course.