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Payton Chung @westnorth.com · 23/09/2026

"Trickle-down" is a bad-faith comparison to vacancy chains. Most households moving into new homes *move out of* existing homes. They give them up.* "Trickle-down" required no such sacrifice; those who had money got to keep their money, and have more.

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ptbrennan.bsky.social @ptbrennan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IMHO, I've come to realize that this is even more fitting for 6-plex vs 4-plex comparison due to different code requirements and other constraints. Let's just try to be enablers of good outcomes.

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ptbrennan.bsky.social @ptbrennan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Time to dress up our bus stops with high-viz colors?

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We identified 17 of the 27 'grievances' in the Declaration of Independence with a contemporary analog. We then annotated those 17 grievances with quotes from federal judges across 52 court cases involving the Trump administration. The judges in their words (many referencing the Declaration itself)

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Today’s Judiciary on the Anniversary of Declaration of Independence

Many actions taken by the current administration echo the grievances laid out in the Declaration of Independence against King George III.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ditat Deus

Arizona has seen the nation's largest percentage decline in SNAP participants;
205,223 children are no longer receiving the benefit since July 2025, a 55% drop.
Louisiana had the second largest percent decline among children, 22%.

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ptbrennan.bsky.social @ptbrennan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

One key point of agreement between these two news stories: "Preliminary information from police suggests the woman was unable to control the speed of her electric scooter and collided with the vehicle as it turned into a private drive."

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...

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Keith Romer @keithromer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My latest from @planetmoney.bsky.social is about brand new research that looks at whether changing low-income neighborhoods into mixed-income neighborhoods improves outcomes for kids who grew up there. Potentially big lessons for all kinds of poverty alleviation policies. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

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This housing program helped kids escape poverty — by changing who they befriended : Planet Money

In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the program went further than just improving public housi...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/11/2025

A big problem in urbanism: getting enough family-sized apartments built in dense areas. Without them, people come when they're young & then flee to the suburbs when they have a family.

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Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing

Can cities learn to love kids again?

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ptbrennan.bsky.social @ptbrennan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"On a year-to-date basis, the only worse years for occupancy over the last 25 years were pandemic or recession years."

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Homeless shelters reduce crime. "Our findings suggest that shelter functions as a public good with high social benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w34376

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Why some US cities thrive while others decline: New study uncovers law of economic coherence of cities" phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 26/06/2025

As a rule of thumb, families that live in compact neighborhoods have low transportation costs. Generally, as apartment heights rise, transportation expenses fall. Since transportation is the 2nd largest expense for most families, this matters.

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ptbrennan.bsky.social @ptbrennan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Interesting case of trespassing up in the air.

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