Some #a2council housing stats for Ann Arbor for condos vs non condos homes built in the last 5 years 🧵
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“I think we are over building these things. I understand rents have come down
significantly in many of them. We own student rents and charge affordable rents that are now competing with those high rises so that we as independent landlords are having trouble getting tenants in our houses. We have enough high rises, please.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q55inui7vnmt2fzhxybq454m/bafkreia6od56iv5vgoyjndeqwfbjt6phhc6jsllaw2b5hcti6czus3y5uy)
oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...
Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents
After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....
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Why do we want them to save money instead of us saving money
Electrek@electrek.co · 5mo agoTesla, Google, Carrier launch coalition to save $100B+ by unlocking idle grid capacity
Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with all of this...
It’s crazy to have SIX dedicated security lines at LaGuardia airport just for Clear & give them priority at the THREE general boarding lanes. This is a tax-payer funded airport that seems to be trying to force people to give their biometric info over to a private company or get squeezed & squeezed.
Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
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BREAKING | Mayor Taylor seen preparing to distribute candy in order to corruptly influence future voters. #a2council
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
UVA now deserves to stand for "University of Vichy America."
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️@mady.cat · 10mo agoThe University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues. The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
is there any reason to believe they won't just auction off everything in the ransom center to the highest bidder, or outright destroy whatever they regard as degenerate?
Deborah McDowell@dem8z.bsky.social · 10mo agoIs Ann Arbor’s housing market actually ok? To find out, I interviewed a real estate agent who is on the Pause The Plan steering committee and who publicly describes student renters like they’re a disease. #a2council by Bryan Cranston
Good union job here for an archivist! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Archivist for Community Collections | U-M Careers
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Mike Dickison@adzebill.bsky.social · 10mo agoDoctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
In my capacity as the chair of the provost's senate-appointed advisory committees, I emailed the questions below to @umich.edu's CFO and CIO. Our bylaws entitle me to request information from any officer of the university. This was weeks ago. I have yet to receive a response.
kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what? the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
go go go a *historic*, WALL TO WALL coalition of national & California labor unions, *including* the Faculty Associations and led by the AAUP www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions are ...
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#a2council content Excited for the Miller Ave project to be completed later this year. engage.a2gov.org/milleravenue...
Miller Avenue Improvements Project
Utility and transportation updates to Miller Avenue
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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12mo ago“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.
Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social · 12mo ago🚨 WaPo EXCLUSIVE Hours before Trump removed Billy Long as IRS commissioner, his agency clashed with the White House over sharing immigrants’ tax data.
Ann Arbor, do not fall for another disingenuous campaign to “save the parks.” It isn’t an anti-tax effort this time, it’s an anti-library AND anti-housing effort. Don’t let another generation go by to save a parking deck. Support the best public institution in this city. Vote yes on Props A & B.
ann arbor deserves a main public library branch that is a shining beacon to our community. a place that can flourish as an essential and thriving communal space, that is a crucible for our grand ideas, that helps mitigate our housing crisis, *and* that continues to be a bulwark against fascism.
They started building a bunch of apartments in Bozeman. You'll never guess what happened next.
Has Bozeman’s rental market finally flipped?
A glut of new ‘upscale’ developments is driving prices down from pandemic highs; city officials hope the surplus will have far-reaching effects in one of the state’s most expensive places to live.
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The applause says it all. Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden. #ALAAC25
