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Hoiyin Ip @hoiyinip.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Choosing where to live is likely the single most consequential decision you’ll make while bringing up your kids—more than what they eat or what they wear or how much screen time they get -Stuck:How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by @yappelbaum.bsky.social

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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For the 250th anniversary, the Latest Politics Weekly America is a conversation with @yappelbaum.bsky.social on how the US remembers its own history: what stories get told and what gets forgotten open.spotify.com/episode/25Kw...

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Trump hijacks America at 250 celebrations

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I think that's an accurate summary in every respect.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

He's a wonderful scholar, whose works are indispensable. Not quite sure what you're asking?

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Really enjoyed this conversation!

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/05/2026

The Atlantic congratulates our staff writer @matteowong.bsky.social for winning an ASME NEXT Award for Journalists Under 30. You can find his work here: theatln.tc/cemLUEPg

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/05/2026

Ben Hickey has won the National Magazine Award for Best Still and Animated Illustration for his work on “America’s Mad King,” by Peter Wehner. See the art and read the story: theatln.tc/KTXr5P3P

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/05/2026

The Atlantic has won the 2026 National Magazine Award for Single-Topic Issue for “The Unfinished Revolution.” Explore the issue here: theatln.tc/jdKNXM3B

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Part 2 of our book club on Stuck is out today, with Giselle Hale of Abundance Network as our guest. This one was a lot of fun, covering some of the most interesting chapters of the book (IMO). Last episode with @yappelbaum.bsky.social is in two weeks! lewis.ucla.edu/2026/05/18/1...

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Episode 114: ‘Stuck’ Book Club pt. 2 with Giselle Hale - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Part 2 of our book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck', covering chapters 5–8. We're joined by Giselle Hale of the Abundance Network.

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We're very excited to (finally) share the first entry in our three-part series on Yoni Appelbaum's book, Stuck. @stano.bsky.social is my co-host, and our guest for this episode is California Attorney General @robbonta.bsky.social to talk housing immigration law. lewis.ucla.edu/2026/05/04/1...

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Episode 112: 'Stuck' Book Club pt. 1 with Attorney General Rob Bonta - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Part 1 of our book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck', covering chapters 1-4. We're joined by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Grateful to @velshi.com for devoting a segment of this length and sophistication to the message of "Stuck" www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UQ...

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Dammit, Kelsey! I had no idea you were in the room, or that you were the guy with a hand raised. Thanks so much for coming, and for this whole thread. I only wish you'd come over to introduce yourself.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If you don’t know the story of Hang Kie and Modesto’s legalization of racial segregation through the racially neutral mechanism of zoning, it’s one of the great untold American civil rights stories.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Mortgage rates fell from nearly 18% at the beginning of 1982 to about 11% by the start of 1986. At their peak, they kept a lot of people frozen in place; when they came down, they set off a wave of local moves, as people traded up to housing that better suited their needs.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The American Dream has always been widespread access to opportunity. Without plentiful housing in high opportunity cities, the American Dream dies.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

8. So if you haven't yet read "Stuck," here's your chance to understand how we got into this mess, and how we can get out of it. And if you have? Pick up a paperback and give it to a friend. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580...

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Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum: 9780593449318 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How did America cease to be the land of opportunity? LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are...

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

7. The solution isn't complicated. We need to let folks build all kinds of housing where people actually want to live. By restoring mobility, we can restore agency, dignity, opportunity, and hope.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

6. There's a massive shift underway. People—particularly young people—now understand that the best way to build a better society is ... to build it. There's broad public support for rolling back the exclusionary laws and regulations that have for too long held back opportunity.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

5. For the last 12 months, I've travelled around the country, hearing stories of people priced out of opportunity, or struggling to afford to stay where they are. The problem is real. But here's the thing: The more people I've heard from, the more optimistic I've become.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

4. A year ago, I published "Stuck," a history of how mobility built American prosperity and democracy—and how its decline has endangered it. Today, it's out in paperback.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

3. This society was once the most mobile on earth. But over the past half-century, we've slowly ground to a halt. In a word, we're STUCK. And it's broken our communities, our economy, and our politics.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

2. The most powerful idea that the U.S. has given to the world is that you don't have to be defined by the circumstances of your birth. Americans created a nation in which people could choose their communities, instead of communities choosing their people.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

1. Take a look at this chart. That black line? Technically, it's the decline in the percentage of Americans who move each year—from about one in five to less than one in thirteen. But it's more than that. You're looking at the decline of the American dream.

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The NHP Foundation @nhpfoundation.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#Stuck by @YoniApplebaum important book that examines, among other things, #affordablehousing via how the privileged and the propertied broke the engine of American opportunity - out in paperback this month. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025…

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/02/2026

“The Gilded Age saw an eruption of scandal and corruption that accompanied and even enabled the transformation of the American economy alongside explosive changes in technology,” Walter Russell Mead argues. “Trump’s Washington looks like the Gilded Age on steroids.”

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The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

NEW: “I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?” Tim Walz asked @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social today. “It’s a physical assault,” Walz told him. “It’s an armed force that’s assaulting, that’s killing my constituents, my citizens.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

BREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I gave you guys a whole year to solve America's mobility crisis—restoring the chance for Americans to pursue opportunity and choose their own communities—but you've left me with no choice but to publish "Stuck" in paperback.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Can money buy a president love? Trump seems determined to find out, perhaps as early as tonight: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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$1,776 Checks for the Military

The president is considering bonuses for many service members.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I love this essay.

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The Alexandria Brief @alexandriabrief.com · 08/12/2025

Reminder: Mayor Alyia Gaskins will join journalist and author Yoni Appelbaum for a public forum on housing affordability and zoning reform tonight at the Lyceum.

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Mayor Gaskins, Atlantic editor to discuss housing affordability at Lyceum

Free event to explore zoning, discrimination and housing policy

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"The Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands." Detailed, exclusive reporting: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages

An inspector general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

There's something uniquely satisfying about kind words from a writer whose own books you've enjoyed. Thanks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social for including me on this list: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...

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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Related: This is a great section from the book “Stuck” about how new homes kept getting new features at breakneck speed, and they all *made life easier*:

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You keep making this claim, and I'm baffled by it. Can I ask you to point to the passage from my book where I defend or rehabilitate Robert Moses? Here's the sole mention of Moses, and the passage in which I make my view of the conflict between them plain:

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We published our 100th episode! Listen for some fun lore about the Housing Voice hosts, answers to listener questions, and the announcement that we'll be reading Stuck for our first book club, with author Yoni Appelbaum joining us for the last episode in that short series.

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Addison Del Mastro @ad-mastro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

"Some of the critics seems to view the artificial costs of mobility as an argument against mobility, when removing those artificial costs is the whole point of the book." Further thoughts on @yappelbaum.bsky.social's "Stuck," and against localism as an ideology:

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Localism Must Not Be an Ideology of Soil

A critique of the localist critique of Yoni Appelbaum’s “Stuck”

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

One of the most interesting things in @yappelbaum.bsky.social's Stuck, is the idea that people join groups most when they can live where they want.

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The resurgence of mobility revived other aspects of American life that had fallen off during the Great Depression. People sought out churches and clubs and lodges as they tried to construct community in their new surroundings. Between 1940 and 1945, rates of membership in American voluntary associations saw their largest recorded surge. Church membership ticked up, too. Just as the golden age of American voluntary associations in the late nineteenth century had been driven by the remarkable number of Americans moving from one place to another, its revival in the postwar decades was, too. Despite becoming sharply more likely to be living next to new neighbors, and to have moved to an unfamiliar place themselves, Americans expressed more trust in each other and more faith in institutions than they had during the immobile years of the Great Depression.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

NEW: Kamala Harris passed on her top choice for a running mate—Pete Buttigieg—because it would've been “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man, she writes in her book, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose

“I love Pete,” she writes in her new book. But picking a gay man would have been too risky.

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Many of our land use / building codes are rooted in exclusion + prejudice, even if they are facially anodyne and widely accepted as common sense today Case in point: early 1900 fire safety reforms were primarily designed to ⬆️ the cost of tenements / MF apts (old and new) to reduce immigration

From Stuck: "If we require multiple dwellings to be fireproof, and thus increase the cost of construction; if we require stairs to be fireproofed, even when there are only three families; if we require fire-escapes and a host of other things," then, he continued, each of the rules could stand up in court, "and at the same time we have made it difficult to build apartment homes."

From Stuck: But although some champions of tenement reform were earnest in their efforts, no one who had paid the slightest attention to the movement could have any doubt as to the actual aims of many reformers. The influx of immigrants to New York City was the problem; eliminating affordable housing was the solution.

From Stuck: Veiller, instead, did everything in his power to make housing more expensive. Immigrants continued to pour into the city in the years immediately after the passage of the Tenement Act, but newly constructed tenements became increasingly unaffordable. The cost of making the improvements to old-law tenements mandated by the law, and increasing competition for the remaining affordable units, combined to drive up prices, setting off rent strikes in 1904 and 1907. "The fact is that the new-law tenements ... are beyond the reach of unskilled wage earners," one reformer complained in 1919.

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Jonathan Levine @jnthnlvn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Strongly recommended for pro-housing people (and even more for people who aren't yet on board): Appelbaum, Yoni. Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Random House, 2025. Moving exerpt attached. #a2council

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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"When the Dust Bowl set off an exodus out of the Great Plains, 300k migrants showed up in California, a place seen as the land of opportunity. The welcome was not warm." This was talked about a bit in the book "Stuck" by @yappelbaum.bsky.social:

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

From Stuck! by @yappelbaum.bsky.social, some great history on U.S. building codes and Lawrence Veiller's work on tenement laws:

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

5. The post-1970s changes to zoning have, in effect, returned to city governments a "license law" regime, in which local governments are now consumed by these decisions, to the detriment of everything else they could be doing—and with the same invitation to corruption.

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