Did a double take at that chart:
Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · last wk.Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
Pleased to be quoted in this Seattle Times article on inequalities in home insurance premiums between White and Black / Hispanic households. I suggest these inequalities may contribute to racial inequalities in the wealth-building effects of homeownership. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
Homeowners of color pay higher insurance costs in WA, nationwide
New research finds a link between the cost of homeowners' insurance and the racial makeup of a neighborhood.
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US 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%.
New homeownership measure puts people first | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track
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Contact your Member of Congress Today and Urge Support for HUD's Critical Community-Based Fair Housing Programs! www.congressweb.com/NFHA/3?frame...
Contact your Member of Congress Today and Urge Support for HUD's Critical Community-Based Fair Housing Programs!
Contact your Member of Congress Today and Urge Support for Critical Community-Based Fair Housing Programs! The National Fair Housing Alliance is calling on you to support our Fair Housing Week of A...
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In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
good morning, ice is kidnapping people in chicago. organización hijos de migrantes reports feds abducted a person from california/fullerton in logan square. additional reports already coming in throughout chicagoland, including west garfield park in chicago, melrose park, and stone park.
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What does the best evidence say about the impacts of building more housing on affordability? How has our understanding improved over the past 6-7 years? Where are the remaining gaps? Those questions are the focus of our latest pod with Vicki Been of NYU: lewis.ucla.edu/2026/07/08/1...
Episode 119: Responding to Supply Skepticism with Vicki Been - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Supply skeptics don’t believe that building more homes improves affordability. Vicki Been tells us what the latest research says about their main arguments.
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"Contemporary rental housing is not priced by a simple, competitive consumer market. It is a financial asset class, financed through commercial mortgage-backed securities valued on projections of future rent growth rather than on what tenants can afford."
Rent Regulation as Financial Regulation
Housing affordability is often framed as a supply problem. This brief examines the role of speculative finance in rental housing and argues that rent regulation is a powerful tool for promoting financ...
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🧵1/6 Rent regulation is getting national attention right now, and the conventional debate is too narrow. In my new paper with the @rooseveltinstitute.org I argue that rent regulation should be understood as macroprudential policy and one of the most powerful tools state and local governments have.
Rent Regulation as Financial Regulation
Housing affordability is often framed as a supply problem. This brief examines the role of speculative finance in rental housing and argues that rent regulation is a powerful tool for promoting financ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
Which states have the most segregated schools — and why does it matter? New report coming Monday, June 22! Join us at noon ET to break down the numbers and what state policymakers can do about it. Register here: bit.ly/statesofsegr... @brownspromise.bsky.social x Segregation Tracking Project
How much housing is located near the nation's transit? 45% of units are located within a 1/2 mile of bus or rail. But only 10% is near frequent service... and 6% is near a rail station. Our new data tool @urbaninstitute.bsky.social allows you to investigate in detail! www.urban.org/data-tools/h...
Join PRRAC, Mobility Works Inc, and us on Thursday, June 11 in Washington, D.C. for “Mobility and Metropolitan Equity: The Legacy of Hills v. Gautreaux at 50,” a symposium examining the enduring impact of Hills v. Gautreaux. Please RSVP here: lnkd.in/d3XzieZ9 #ImpactForEquity #HousingJustice
More folks should read this book. (BTW: despite being a philosophical book, it is not difficult to read) www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...
The Imperative of Integration on JSTOR
More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of ...
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You may ask yourself, “Can the Supreme Court do that?” And you may ask yourself, “What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment?” And you may ask yourself, “What was the intent of the founders and is that even relevant?” If so.. May I recommend attending our sessions on the Constitution?
Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 5mo agoI am delighted to announce a series of talks sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival, curated by me, on the history, meaning and future of the Constitution, titled (not by me, I swear!) Peter Sagal's Constitution Sessions, beginning in May with three great events. www.chicagohumanities.org
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Share Your Story: Impact of Federal Funding Cuts and Executive Actions on Social and Behavioral Science Research
The scientific community continues to face unprecedented challenges as the Trump Administration attempts to fundamentally change the way research is supported and conducted in the U.S. The latest…
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While the ultra-rich get even richer, families are getting squeezed by a rigged economy. It's time for the government to stop listening to the richest of the rich and start working for working people.
Alden Loury crunched the numbers and found Black economic mobility in Chicago is dead last among 50 major cities chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Segregation, racism stifle economic mobility for many in Black community
In addition to being the most segregated big city in America, Chicago may also be the worst big city for Black economic mobility.
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Six weeks into a war with easily foreseeable problems, thousands of service members at risk, and gas prices above $4 a gallon—yet Senate Republicans for the FOURTH time blocked a resolution requiring Congress to approve further military action against Iran. They are enabling this erratic President.
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”
The President just posted that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran does not comply. After entering a war no one wanted, Trump is threatening mass murder. I'm urging every Cabinet Member and Republican leaders to call the President IMMEDIATELY. The Iranian people do not deserve this.
Americans’ top frustrations with the federal tax system - the rich and corporations don't pay their fair share. | Pew Research Center share.google/KOzlfsaL0Ckt...
What bothers Americans most about taxes? Feeling that some corporations, wealthy people don’t pay their fair share
61% of adults say that the feeling that some wealthy people don’t pay their fair share bothers them a lot. 60% say this about some some corporations.
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Tonight Israel issued forced displacement orders for >40 towns & villages inc. around Sidon, Nabatieh, elsewhere. More than a million Lebanese are already displaced, shelters are at capacity, people are sleeping on streets, in cars. Now a new wave of displacement begins #lebanon
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
There’s Another Big Reason Trump Is Stuck in the Gulf
There’s Another Big Reason Trump Is Stuck in the Gulf
You’ve certainly seen or heard about President Trump’s morning threat to destroy...
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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
A US service member is missing and this is the first we've heard from the president. Need I say more
TrumpReposter@trumpreposter.bsky.social · 4mo agoKEEP THE OIL, ANYONE?