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16 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New >> I talked to Amy Klobuchar about her bipartisan plan to tackle the housing supply crisis.

vox.com/22382212/housi…
While Biden's recently announced grant program will provide $$ to localities who remove exclusionary zoning policies, Klobuchar's program helps them get there. ImageImage
There are localities that are interested in figuring out how to upzone, but don't have the in-house resources to do it. Klobuchar's grant program would give them the ability to hire or contract seasoned planners who can develop a plan for them. Image
It's a big step forward to see prominent Senators (Portman and Kaine are co-sponsors) pushing forward with zoning reform legislation.

Klobuchar even agreed the Senate should "consider" making transportation $$s contingent on zoning reform.
vox.com/22382212/housi…

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21 Apr
New >> @JohnFPfaff helps me think through how accountability and justice can be at odd with each other and how that might play out following the conviction of Derek Chauvin.

vox.com/2021/4/21/2239…
Following the conviction we heard Rep. Jim Jordan call it proof that "the system works". He's not alone in thinking that.
Then we talked about something I know a lot of criminal justice reform advocates struggle with. Advocating against mass incarceration means shorter sentences for violent criminals. So how should we think about what an appropriate sentence is for someone like Chauvin?
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9 Apr
New >> A new study found a significant decline (15-20%) in police homicides in places that saw BLM protests from 2014-2019.

The flipside? The study shows that places that saw BLM protests also experienced a 10% rise in murders over 2014-2019. vox.com/22360290/black…
Thanks to Travis Campbell at UMass Amherst (who smartly doesn't appear to be on twitter) for walking me through your research and h/t to @owasow for flagging this piece of research and talking me through the underlying protest literature.
vox.com/22360290/black…
First, on the good news. Not only did BLM protests correlate with a significant decline in police homicides. The larger and more frequent the protests were, the bigger the decline.

The decrease is also persistent, widening 14 percentage points from year 0 to year 4 of protests. Image
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24 Feb
To eliminate exclusionary zoning, reducing opposition to new multi-family construction is key.

I asked @DataProgress to message test an economic and racial justice case for reforming zoning laws and the former performed **10 percentage points better**.

vox.com/22297328/affor…
Republican voters net support rises **14 points** when presented with an economic case relative to the racial justice arguments.
This is just one poll and I think the best argument is what works for your community. But I've yet to see compelling evidence that making the racial justice case gets you more voters than just making the economic one.
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17 Feb
For Black History Month, Vox is publishing a big series on rethinking policy for Black America.

I wrote 3,200 words on eradicating exclusionary zoning.

It's a 3 step formula: Persuade, incentivize, and if all else fails, SUE THE SUBURBS.

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vox.com/22252625/ameri…
We know that exclusionary zoning is locking millions out of opportunity.

Work by @OppInsights, Richard Rothstein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, @nhannahjones, @RickKahlenberg, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Enrico Moretti and @ProfSchleich details the economic impact of these discriminatory policies.
51 years after the Fair Housing Act, it's never been seriously enforced. It's time to change that.

First things first, Biden has work to do to convince whoever can be convinced that there is a racial, environmental, and economic imperative to undo residential segregation.
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28 Nov 20
Unbelievable. Lexington is proposing taking money AWAY from emergency rental assistance a month before the CDC’s eviction moratorium expires.
The most astonishing part of it is they’re using the money for implicit bias training — the effectiveness of which is highly contested.

scholar.harvard.edu/files/dobbin/f…
not surprising that in an age of racial reckoning companies and governments would rather turn to unproven interventions like employee trainings than major changes like undermining police union power or spending money on social welfare programs
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27 Nov 20
I spent a couple of weeks talking with policy experts, renters, landlords, and lawyers about the looming expiration date for the CDC's eviction moratorium.

It's worse than you think, and it's all utterly avoidable. Thread.
The Aspen Institute has estimated up to 40 million renters are at risk of eviction over the next several months. The only thing currently holding back the tide is the CDC's order and a patchwork of state and local eviction moratoriums. Image
But eventually moratoriums have to end. And Moody's Analytics' chief economist Mark Zandi has estimated renters could owe up to $70 billion by year's end.

So uh, who's left holding the bag?

vox.com/21569601/evict…
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