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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A major failing of this country is the vilification of property taxes by opportunistic pols & affluent homeowners. Yes, property taxes often exhibit major racial & class inequities (Kahrl's The Black Tax). But it is our only real form of wealth tax & folks who can afford to pay it, should. 🧵1/2

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy False Fall to all New Yorkers who celebrate!

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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

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Fiscal Policy Institute @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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.

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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.

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Rakeen Mabud @rmabud.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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...

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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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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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...

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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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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026

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.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/01/2026

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.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 04/01/2026

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.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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.

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David F Brand @davidfbrand.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Mamdani names his transition team housing committee

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Kate Howell @drkatehowell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

'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."

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Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org · 13/11/2025

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.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/11/2025

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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.

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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)

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

My politics are the joy of solidarity around Marathon Sunday.

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This is the deciding factor for when I’m voting

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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...

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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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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/08/2025

I need people to understand: 1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined 2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit 3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

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Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments

People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 14/08/2025

Research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that federal government's sweep of homelessness in DC & other cities is a fool's errand. Criminalization & forced relocation: —Are an ineffective deterrent —Disrupt resources access —Prolong homelessness —Cost a lot of $ What solves homelessness? Housing.

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The National Guard Won’t End Homelessness. Housing Resources Can.

Despite a nationwide trend toward criminalizing people experiencing homelessness, decades of research show that housing resources and other supports remain the best solution to helping people exit hom...

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Here are 10 reasons why Andrew Cuomo's rent stabilization plan is an incredibly stupid political stunt that makes no sense as public policy and would cause immense harm if ever enacted.

Andrew Cuomo talking nonsense about Zohran Mamdani.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

“People who need it”, I’ve got friends who have moved to Jersey City because everything that isn’t stabilized in the city and is within like five express stops of Manhattan is now like $4k/m. Everyone needs more housing and now. What an unserious conversation.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

-Cut Medicaid & SNAP -Push to cut rental assistance -Push states & cities to criminalize and forcibly institutionalize homeless (which don’t have resources other than police and jails primarily) = absolute nightmare

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

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Zohran Mamdani Says He’s a Democratic Socialist. What Does That Mean?

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Heath Ledger, Elliott Smith, The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, and Ed Koch all lived in New York City more recently than Cuomo.

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When can I go vote for Brad Landers? So refreshing to see someone put their values over their ego or ambition.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Five months is a long time for the Bill Ackmans, Larry Summers, AIPAC, Trumps, and Rupert Murdochs of the world to distort and deceive. Primary elections are not the finish line.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Excellent news for the NYC left: There were 10 city council members of the Progressive Caucus who faced primary challengers today, some of them very ideologically polarized primaries. All 10 incumbents are leading *by a lot.*

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thank you to everyone doing GOTV to make sure NYC is led by a competent leader without a history of sexual harassment and corruption!

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I don’t like to swear. And I have many friends at the New York Times, who I love. But with all my heart: fuck the @nytimes.com editorial board for their idiotic, tortured, uniformed, fear-mongering, mealy-mouthed, bullshit mayor’s race op-ed. First, let’s talk politics. What’s it doing? (1/5)

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Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

In honor of today’s clueless editorial by The NY Times Board.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

And here’s what she said weeks ago to me:

Jessica Ramos text with me suggesting she staying in the race to take votes away from Cuomo

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