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Kenton Card

@kentoncard.bsky.social
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Tenant rights, social movements, organizing against authoritarianism. Assistant Professor @sjsu www.kentoncard.com

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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CALL FOR PAPERS @Urban Affairs Association 2027, New York City #Socialist #Housing Policy and Practice
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Rev. Rae Huang @raeforla.com · 08/04/2026
For Midnight Books recap with Rae: We're fighting to expand tenant protections, rental assistance, eviction defense, and free city bus systems so that no Angeleno falls through the cracks again.
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mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My book is out in the US today! Get in touch for a 40% discount @desireefields.bsky.social @kentoncard.bsky.social @danimmergluck.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector
Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Important contribution on the impact of new housing supply on rents coauthored by my @curaumn.bsky.social colleague @tonydamiano.bsky.social 👇🏼
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(CURA) Center for Urban & Regional Affairs at UMN @curaumn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Do luxury apartments lower rents—or raise them? A new study co-authored by CURA’s Tony Damiano examines how high-end development affected nearby rents in Minneapolis during a period of rapid growth. #Housing #Minneapolis www.cura.umn.edu/research/bui...
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(CURA) Center for Urban & Regional Affairs at UMN @curaumn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
CURA is hiring research assistants! Head to the UMN Job Search site and search for student jobs using "CURA." hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Jo...
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UMN Student Jobs
Apply TodayThe University of Minnesota has thousands of job opportunities for students to gain valuable work experience, hone your professional and personal skills, and contribute to your campus commu...
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(CURA) Center for Urban & Regional Affairs at UMN @curaumn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A report from @shelterforce.bsky.social interviews CURA researcher Kenton Card "Right now, we are seeing the largest volunteer grassroots effort that I’ve ever seen, and I study these things for a living." shelterforce.org/2026/02/27/s...
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Safe and Sheltered: How Tenant Organizers Protect Their Neighbors in Minneapolis  — Shelterforce
To protect themselves from ICE, many families are staying home; tenant organizers are pushing for eviction moratoriums to keep them safe.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Q: How does new rental construction impact rent prices? A: It depends. New research finds BIG developments: ⬆️ rents of lower-priced units by 4.4%⚠️ ⬇️ rents of higher-priced units by 1.7%. @tonydamiano.bsky.social & Chris Frenier tell us why submarkets matter. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Build baby build? Housing submarkets and the effects of new construction on existing rents
There is vigorous debate among scholars, and activists about the role that new market-rate apartments play in alleviating housing affordability issues at the neighborhood level. This study evaluate...
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(CURA) Center for Urban & Regional Affairs at UMN @curaumn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Neighborhoods Now! includes 4 one-day sessions, a follow-up think tank sessions with fellow organizers, a planned field action, and guest speaker programs. Throughout the course, participants will have access to 1-to-1 assistance from CURA staff. www.cura.umn.edu/programs/com...
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Neighborhoods Now! | Center for Urban & Regional Affairs
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Soren Stevenson - Minneapolis Ward 8 @ward8.minneapolismn.gov · 28/02/2026
Join me in calling on the City Council and Mayor to support this effort by testifying at a public hearing of Pause Evictions, Save Lives this Tue 3/3 at 9:30 in the Council Chambers at City Hall (350 S 5th St).
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I was interviewed for a new @shelterforce.bsky.social article profiling how tenant organizers have responded to the ICE invasion of Minneapolis, calling for an #EvictionMoratorium. shelterforce.org/2026/02/27/s...
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Parents & neighbors have joined forces to defend elementary schools from masked federal agents abducting children in #Minneapolis. Let that sink in. Is that the America you want to live in?
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In #Minneapolis, I’m talking w/ my neighbors about having legal observer patrols at our local elementary school because federal agents have been kidnapping children. Let that sink. #StopKidnappingChildren #abolishICE Then I see 👇
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Rev. Rae Huang @raeforla.com · 21/01/2026
Join us for a people-powered night of film and community at Whammy as we watch the silent-era classic Safety Last, on January 26 at 7:30pm! a piece of Los Angeles history that reminds us how storytelling has always shaped this city. Link to register below.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I spoke to the Minneapolis City Council last week about how the academic evidence indicates that an #EvictionMoratorium is an effective & measured tool to maintain community safety — during the #ICE invasion.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I've been living in #Minneapolis over the past year and a half. So I'm going to start sharing some observations that I've made on the ground over the past weeks. Let me know if you'd like me to comment on anything in particular.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I'm very excited to support tenant movement leader @raeforla.bsky.social of @housingnowca.bsky.social launch a powerful campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles!! 💰 support her if you can 💰 Learn more about it below👇👇🔥🔥
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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Congratulations to Dr. James Sirigotis, who defended his dissertation Resilient Optionality: (Infra)structures of Climate, Feeling, and Finance at UC Santa Cruz. Sirigotis offers a comprehensive account of how capitalism now mirrors the logic of financial options, a truly brilliant work.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani went to the White House as a proud — and electorally successful — democratic socialist. And Trump, in one of the most surreal moments in modern US politics, seemed to accept that reality. Here’s the story of the day Trump said, “I feel very confident that he can do a very good job.”
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A Socialist In the White House
Zohran Mamdani is certainly not the first democratic socialist to meet with a US president. But his visit with Donald Trump shows the renewal of a historic American movement.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Love fest in the White House today btw @realdonaldtrumppar.bsky.social & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social – a twilight zone experience to watch a sitting president encourage a Democratic Socialist mayor-elect www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzw...
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LIVE: Trump and Mamdani meeting at the White House
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Yvonne Yen Liu (she/her) 🇵🇸 @yvonnegraphy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Will New Yorkers will settle for a progressive mayor or build the assemblies, cooperatives, and networks needed to support lasting transformation? A radical municipalist take on Mamdani’s victory by @yvonnegraphy Read at nonprofitquarterly.org/will-mamdani...
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
#Minneapolis community!! Check out #zAmya Theater Project's premiere of "Living in America: The Waiting List is Full." zAmya combines lived experience & artistic expression to inspire communities to work for housing justice for all.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great op-ed by my colleagues Tony Damiano & Ed Goetz @curaumn.bsky.social on how "we’re seeing haves & have-nots with #Minneapolis rents." [link below]
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Up next at #ACSP2025 I’m speaking about just cause eviction protections from advocacy research developed w/ @rentersunitemd.bsky.social & @curaumn.bsky.social
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"Does tenant organizing improve housing quality & health?" 🔥 Fascinating new research by @midwesterly.bsky.social, Drew Dearwood & @alexkarner.bsky.social on the housing-health intersection out of UT Austin working with community org Basta! #ACSP2025 —> Check out their findings👇
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Seniors in Cincinnati are forming a #TenantUnions to claim rights & affordable rents. They demand to collectively negotiating w/ out-of-state landlord to prevent new renovations from displacing residents. Video here: www.fox19.com/video/2025/1...
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Cincinnati seniors form tenant union to fight potential displacement
Cincinnati seniors form tenant union to fight potential displacement
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Great news!! Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool! Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!! www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...
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Louisville's Anti-Displacement Commission finally gets off the ground
The Anti-Displacement Commission will track housing developments that receive city resources to protect residents from gentrification.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/09/2025
Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through the Tenant Union Federation to demand collective bargaining.
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Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Who can speak, when, on what subjects & from what platforms is determined by historical context & differentiated by race, gender, class, ideology & politics. ..." —Robin DG Kelley in @bostonreview.bsky.social
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#TenantUnions can be funny too. Comedy & music as fundraising tools used by KC Tenants Union www.axios.com/local/kansas...
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KC Tenants brings its housing fight to the stage
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New film shows @sanders.senate.gov speaking to #MAGA voters in West Virginia about the struggles of working class people. His message resonated. Well done @moreperfectunion.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Read everything by Robin DG Kelley, and esp. on such an important topic.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online. Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Should lawmakers limit rent price gouging & evictions after wildfires? Adhiti Bandlamudi's new legislation #SB522 extends tenant protections to buildings destroyed from wildfires in California. www.kqed.org/news/1205185...
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This Bill Would Extend Renter Protections to Homes Rebuilt After a Disaster. Some Say It Falls Short | KQED
Under current law, rentals destroyed in a wildfire, flood or other natural disaster lose certain tenant protections once they are rebuilt.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
*How do crises impact policy debate?* I'm thrilled to share my new article in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social w/ ‪@acomandon.bsky.social‬ (& Drew Messamore) that Andre & me began while at @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social !
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NLIHC @nlihc.org · 14/08/2025
#ICYMI: #NLIHC released a report that shows how the National Housing Trust Fund remains an essential source of gap financing for affordable homes. See how each state used their funds awarded in 2020: nlihc.org/resource/n...
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...
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Rent Freeze Proposal Chills Cash-Starved Owners of Bronx Buildings
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s pledge is raising alarms as bankers refuse to finance regulated buildings where costs outstrip income.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 22/07/2025
Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing
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The Long Fight for Tenant Power | Charlie Dulik
More than a third of the US population rent their homes. The number of tenants in the country is growing fast—nearly triple the rate of homeowner growth
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Tony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Great work from CURA post-doc @kentoncard.bsky.social! nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
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New Research Finds Good Cause Eviction Policies Don’t Hamper Construction
Multiple states have ongoing pushes for good cause eviction protections. A frequent obstacle: a now-disproven claim by developers.
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
How can research inform policy change? My team worked w/ tenant advocates from across the country to debunk the landlord lobbyist trope that eviction protections for tenants hamper the rate of construction. Our model & evidence linked below in this @shelterforce.bsky.social article👇
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore." If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇 antipodeonline.org/geographies-...
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I'm excited to be part of a community conversation & symposium today on "Home Economics" at the infamous Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
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8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for
Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States.
22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and
empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia
University Buddhist Association and led it for two years.
23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at
Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and
identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful
permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to
Palestine. Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles
regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi
appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and
kill his best friend in the West Bank.
27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University
Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose
views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that
more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding
through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his
speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a
peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all.
25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who
made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against
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antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator
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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This op-ed by Kayla Giordano on "The truth about #justcause #eviction & #HousingSupply" cites our research at @curaumn.bsky.social ctmirror.org/2025/04/02/t...
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Opinion: The truth about just cause eviction and housing supply
The evidence is compelling, tenant protections are not the reason Connecticut is failing to grow our housing supply.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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Policy Simulation Library @pslmodels.org · 08/04/2025
In our most recent PSL Demo Day, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, @kentoncard.bsky.social , and Andre Comandon talk about their project creating an open source tool to assess housing displacement risk.
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Instead of weaponizing efficiency to bludgeon government, let's cultivate more responsive, effective government. My new white paper @responsivegov.bsky.social argues for governance rooted in "the robust & systematic centering of the voices of the denizens who most rely on public social programs."
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