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Thomas Silverstein

@tsilverstein.bsky.social
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Executive Director at @prrac.bsky.social; adjunct clinician; Wizards/Nats/LFC; crossword solver; early morning dog walker

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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apropos of earlier thread, co-living can theoretically help with this (I had a younger nursing home resident client once for whom that would have been ideal) but also carries some risks and investments in permanent supportive housing - at scale - are ultimately the most important intervention.
time.com
Nursing Homes Have Become Last-Resort Housing
Finding the right care for older adults facing homelessness could be part of a broader rethinking of long-term care, writes Michele Cohen Marill.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great piece from @rcobooth.bsky.social. Some aspects of this issue not explored in the article but worthy of attention: - There is a long track record of successful litigation challenges to occupancy limits in the context of rejected reasonable accommodation requests... www.vox.com/the-highligh...
vox.com
America’s empty bedrooms are up for grabs
A 20th-century backlash banned a popular affordable housing option. It’s now seeing a revival.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm so torn about which group text to send this to (all of them?).
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exhibit _ for why a robust public sector role in housing provision (ideally via mixed-income social housing) is critical. Market-based solutions can work to moderate rent growth & even to induce modest rent decreases. That's way better than an alternative of... sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-...
sanantonioreport.org
It's a good time to be a renter in San Antonio. That might not last.
San Antonio rents have fallen as landlords compete for tenants, but slowing development could flip the market around by late 2027.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lovely to see Mo play against opposition that is just enough slower than in the Premier League that he looks like 2017-2018 vintage (probably won’t every weekend).
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I didn't watch the League Cup match this week because David Ellison so this is the first time I'm seeing Robbo in a Spurs kit. I'm torn between it hurting my feelings and jolting me, on the one hand, and it not actually feeling that bracing because it doesn't look miles off of a Scotland kit.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
To the PHAs out there, if you sign up for the "Work & Dignity Coalition" (all of the scare quotes), you are signing up to being used by the most banal, bad faith opponents of our social safety net as cover for draconian - and racist - policies like work requirements.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The continuing violation theory of when injury occurs (across all manner of causes of action) is grounded in unambiguous Supreme Court precedent. HUD has no authority to disregard it when deciding which administrative complaints to exercise jurisdiction over.
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Fair Share Housing Center @fairsharehousing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
States across the country are exploring new ways to set housing targets and hold local governments accountable. What can they learn from New Jersey — and from one another? Join us Oct. 22 for a national conversation on the fair share model. Register: bit.ly/4dj59yE
This event will bring together housing policy leaders and advocates from across the country to examine a growing question: Can states set meaningful affordable housing targets — and hold local governments accountable for meeting them?

This question is gaining new urgency as states across the country are increasingly incorporating elements of New Jersey’s groundbreaking “fair share” affordable housing framework.  Speakers will explore how these approaches are evolving, what states are learning from one another, and how statewide requirements can increase housing production, counter exclusionary zoning, and advance more equitable growth.

We will hear from the following speakers:

- Zoe Baldwin, Vice President of State Programs, Regional Plan Association
- Melinda Coy, Housing Accountability Chief, California Department of Housing and Community Development  
- Adam Gordon, Executive Director, Fair Share Housing Center (moderator)
- Cashauna Hill, Executive Director, The Redress Movement
- Rep. Jason Rojas, Connecticut House Majority Leader
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Poverty & Race Research Action Council @prrac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Check out this helpful new guidance from progressive state AGs addressing how their state anti-discrimination laws protect against practices that cause unjustified disparate impacts, regardless of the status of the Trump Administration's attacks on civil rights! www.mass.gov/doc/multista...
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Poverty & Race Research Action Council @prrac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
PRRAC is proud to support @vanhollen.senate.gov & Senator Young's Family Stability & Opportunity Vouchers Act. Investing in rental assistance & mobility counseling that helps families move to well-resourced neighborhoods breaks down entrenched segregation. www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...
vanhollen.senate.gov
Van Hollen, Young Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Boost Housing Mobility Vouchers, Increase Families’ Access to Affordable Housing | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) reintroduced their bipartisan Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act,...
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Poverty & Race Research Action Council @prrac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From friend of PRRAC Richard Rothstein, reviewing an interesting new book about how to curtail judicial supremacy.
newrepublic.com
The Making of a Judicial Coup
Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book reminds readers that the Supreme Court’s power to determine a law’s validity has no basis in the Constitution.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wilco, Stripes, Bjork, and - hardest (only hard) choice - leaning Wilco but may change my mind.
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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Really insightful thread from @nexusproject.bsky.social about the parallels between anti-trans hate and antisemitism. The same propagandists use the same playbook for both forms of hate.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not watching the match because of both work and (justified) bitterness towards David Ellison causing me to have canceled Paramount Plus, but it is objectively hilarious that Llorente scored against us (because of course he did). I hope his dog (Anfield) is happy.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wal...
currentaffairs.org
The Wall Street Journal’s Propaganda On Rent Control
Let’s at least be honest about the benefits that capping rent increases delivers.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Really nice to see Loris Karius play well for a historic club in one of the big five leagues.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Missy / Wilco / Bjork / Drive-By Truckers / The White Stripes
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This - from nearby - is an interesting hodgepodge of the most nonsense pretexts for opposing development & as strong of a basis for claiming an affordable component is inadequate as I can imagine. Why? Because 90% of AMI IS market rate for new construction. streetcarsuburbs.news/63127/colleg...
streetcarsuburbs.news
Residents raise concerns over Aviation Landing plans
Residents expressed concerns over the proximity of a proposed multi-phase project to the College Park Airport during an Aug. 27 community meeting about the residential and commercial development. Afte...
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
10 acts you’ve seen as support acts: The Jesus and Mary Chain The Happy Mondays The Mountain Goats Dinosaur Jr. Broken Social Scene Dead Prez The Smashing Pumpkins Pharaohe Monch Waxahatchee The Vaselines
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is as beautiful of a piece of writing about music as you’ll ever find.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a very pre-internet band, one you learned of by listening to college radio or haunting record stores. I think we live in a cynical age where no one believes a band might be making music just because they like how it feels to do so, but HJ were strictly business. Their music was for them. Rest easy.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Excellent from Solomon: nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
nextcity.org
Affordable Housing Often Costs More To Build Than Market‑Rate Housing. Colorado Is Closing the Gap.
Op-ed: Lower land costs and new statewide housing reforms have made Colorado an outlier.
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Poverty & Race Research Action Council @prrac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
From our stalwart Board member Michael Allen in @shelterforce.bsky.social on the fight for accessible housing.
shelterforce.org
The Accessibility Rules Were There. The Enforcement Wasn’t. — Shelterforce
Federal accessibility requirements are only as effective as the local governments responsible for enforcing them.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Really appreciative of @newsday.bsky.social & @joshuasolomon.bsky.social for reporting this story, which describes some of the most egregious allegations of discrimination and maladministration by a PHA that I've ever seen.
newsday.com
Hempstead's public housing authority discriminated against people of color and with disabilities, feds say
The town's housing authority used an unlawful system to curate its waitlist for apartments, according to federal officials.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have a lot of antipathy for the ADL, but I did not need to wake up this morning to Mark Zuckerberg shoving Nazi conspiracy theories/disinformation about Leo Frank (so as to discredit the ADL) down my throat.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is between the first three Velvet Underground albums and the first three A Tribe Called Quest albums for me, which reinforces that my musical taste hasn't changed since I was 18. But why should it?
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is a train that I've been on for a long time, and I'm not getting off. Interestingly, DC proper (not its suburbs) is one place where this doesn't really work. There are four courses in DC, none of them private with three on NPS land & one on DoD land. 1/
vox.com
The case for turning golf courses into affordable housing
A major housing project in Nevada used to be a fairway. Other states should take a swing.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Don’t love that the named sponsor of DC’s hometown pro tennis tournament is a sovereign wealth fund controlled by the same people who have been fomenting genocide in Sudan in recent years!!
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If Haley Stevens ever met a representative group of let’s say ten Jewish Americans, it might dawn on her that perhaps three of them would be ride or die for Abdul (with a mix of because of and despite his views on Palestine) & that rhetoric like this is extremely offensive to them!
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you're at an institution that sometimes pays honoraria, please, please, please give people the option to choose to have their honoraria go to their employer rather than to themselves as individuals. 9 times out of 10 I've done whatever I'm doing to merit the check in my day job capcity.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Really would not want to see Hendo playing for Chelsea. Him going to Saudi should have made me not care, but it'd still be sad. Brentford and Ajax were both totally fine.
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Rob Breymaier @rbreymaier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have been making some pretty compelling maps for AFFH analyses over the past few years. Here is a simplified version.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Great piece from fair housing advocates in OR about the need to require mapping & spatial analysis in AFFH efforts, including positive case studies & cautionary tales. Worth chewing on in states that don't have AFFH laws but might consider them & in places with existing, underveloped structures.
shelterforce.org
See No Evil: Oregon Retreats on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Initiative   — Shelterforce
Oregon passed laws requiring city housing plans to affirmatively further fair housing. But many cities are refraining from mapping.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That was certainly one of the halves of football I’ve ever seen.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There are so many commentary duos who would be better for this than Strong and Holden.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm really glad that the Odyssey is supposed to be good, not as vindication for wokeness (though I'll certainly take that!) but because I was that kid who was really excited for the Armand Assante version in the 90s and who was mildly personally offended when there were some bad reviews at the time.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wondering how long it’ll be until the NYT realizes that Aurora, IL rather than Aurora, CO has the worst AQI right now.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This was a small problem in Brazil in 2014 too but seemingly not in Japan and South Korea in 2002, but it is ridiculous that the European TV audience is being prioritized to such a degree for the semis that the matches are functionally unwatchable for most people with jobs in the host nations. 1/
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
There is an ironclad case that Messi is better than Ronaldo, but isn't there also an ironclad case that Divock Origi is better than either? In this thread and to mark Divock's retirement, I will...
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you're not reading Ruthy and Jacob, what are you really doing? rentroll.substack.com/p/the-govern...
rentroll.substack.com
The Government is Financializing Your Home Part III
“Only the Little People Pay Taxes”
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I really don’t want to go to sleep right now, but I gotta. Go Mexico!
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Wow!
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Barbara Samuels @bsamuels72.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A thread worth reading for anyone who cares about fair and/or affordable housing.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A little more than a decade ago, the Supreme Court denied cert in CBIA v. City of San Jose, allowing the respondent’s inclusionary zoning ordinance to remain in effect. I had become obsessed with the case, which had been pending before the California Supreme Court when we...1/
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Excited to be at NFHA's conference today and tomorrow and looking forward to the panel on which I'll be speaking about some hot topics in rental assistance tomorrow morning!
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Silverstein...told me that '[]Unlike prior hostile administrations, there is no point in staying; you can’t even do modest good things, in stark contrast to George W. Bush or even the first Trump administration." thebaffler.com/latest/famil... Actually please stay around to rebuild BUT...
thebaffler.com
Family Values | Oksana Mironova
A traditionalist bent has always been present in American housing policy—going back to even before the founding of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm relieved to announce my retirement from Wordle. We had a blast together, but it was time. At some point during my most recent streak, I said to myself: when this streak comes to a natural end, I'm calling it. Yesterday, I was camping & forgot to do it. Today, I realized my omission. So it ends.
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Thomas Silverstein @tsilverstein.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Wordle 1,834 4/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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