The Urban Truth Collective is a creative, evidence-based collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social & @grantennis.bsky.social
I read LA Metro documents for fun.
I like California a lot. Like A LOT.
Views expressed here aren’t even necessarily my own, let alone my employer’s.
We strive to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities, and we conduct rigorous research to advance housing policy and practice. www.jchs.harvard.edu
Owns $200MM of apartment buildings (w investors). Manages 1,100 apartments. Co-founder: Reconvene and ReSeed. Join my mailing list here: moseskagan.com
Reporter covering housing for @laist.com
Get in touch: dwagner@laist.com
I discovered the surprising story of what really happened in 2008 (not enough housing) and accidentally became a housing policy guy.
https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Erdmann/author/B099P7SN1G
Politically active YIMBY, New Urbanist, StrongTowns, Historic Preservationists, MCM lover, Climate Warrior, rabid pro density, transit & housing in turn. Electrification & Heat pump evangelical.
Co-Founder of Amped Kitchens (http://ampedkitchens.com). Board Chair, Council of Infill Builders. Vice Chair, LA City Small Business Comm. Adjunct prof of Real Estate Dev, USC's Price School. Personal account. Posts are solely mine. Follow ≠ endorsement.
features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
https://www.katieprout.com/
Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
fake tenant lawyer, aspiring social housing umarell
Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies
Affordable/Fair Housing, Urban Policy, Urban Political Economy, Community Development, Expert Analysis & Witness
CHI->ATL->CHI
Opinions my own.
Ah, dejame entrar, dejame ver algún día como ven tus ojos / Organiser, Debt Collective + L.A. Tenants Union / Board, Tenants Together / ex-Campaign Coordinator, ACCE / rent control & social housing campaigner / Personal account
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writer and organizer • The New Republic, The Nation, The Baffler & elsewhere • Abolish Rent from Haymarket Books bit.ly/abolishrent
The Eviction Lab is helping neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis. Follow us for the latest housing research + news.
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Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively
A nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
We're a tenant-led, member-funded union fighting for the human right to housing. We stop evictions, teach tenant rights & organize rent strikes across Los Angeles. JOIN! https://latenantsunion.org/join/
Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
"Cool cat looking for a kitty. Gonna look in every corner of the city." I walk. I make maps. I’m always looking for cats. Creator of The Cat Joy Project. Many of my maps are on AllTrails, Wikiloc, and my blog sweetslinkysmaps.blogspot.com
The Renters Council was formed to act as a driving force in the development of a tenants’ rights and protections agenda within the Democratic Party for the benefit of the 18 million Californian renters.
www.cademrenterscouncil.org FPPC #1429102
Living my best life as a teacher, writer, mentor, consultant, and troublemaking progressive activist. Dad, husband, hiker, 🏳️🌈, DC Comics nerd. Host of What's Next Los Angeles podcast, co-host of LA Podcast. Former member of the LA City Council.
Housing is a human right
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Burbank City Council, former Mayor of Burbank, #ActuallyAutistic he/him
Berkeley Rent Board Chair. Coordinating Committee, Wellstone Dems. Delegate to CADSA. Member Rep, CA Working Families Party. Frmr SEIU 1021 Steward. he/him
Your local housing & transportation policy expert. Working to end freeway expansions in CA. Trans rights are human rights. They/Them.
focused on fixing the dumb policies that make it harder to build transit and housing
organize @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social @walkbikeberk.bsky.social
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berkeley
he/they
samjgreenberg.com
Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Staff writer at The Atlantic. Host of Plain English podcast. Books.
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Bloomberg Opinion columnist, Buc-ee’s fan
📍Atlanta, GA
I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
People's Policy Project: peoplespolicyproject.org
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Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Cohost of @everybodygetspie, a podcast from the team that brought you YIMBYs for Harris
Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
hello i'm @kateconger.com now! please follow me there.
Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him.
Email: ben.casselman@nytimes.com
Signal: @bencasselman.96
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data & creative at @streetsforall.org
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joshvredevoogd.com
author of Paved Paradise, editor of The Future of Transportation, Loeb Fellow '24, formerly of Slate
Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
The official Bluesky account of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). Founded in 1975.
lafca.net
Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
The original anonymous Native Angeleno kickin' it online since 2007. Ask him anything about Los Angeles.
militantangeleno.com
Transportation and policy nerd. 🖖🏽
Housing and media advocate, designer, researcher, writer, builder, projector. Contributor writer at @Sightline.org; etc. Mostly in: Cascadia, Western US, LDN; nomadic. http://tmccormick.org; tmccormick.eth
Iconoscape | Architecture • Design • Culture
Unveiling iconic spaces & untold stories
Just here to learn about all things Chicago, public transit, urbanism related from y’all. I have nothing to say.
Twitter broke so now I'm here.
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Born in Berkeley. YIMBY. Cars ruin cities.
Also, too, Jackal.
Housing reporter @calmatters.org. Occasional dad tweets. Tell me things: Ben@calmatters.org / signal: BenC.2017
Los Angeles based urban planner and writer. Author of "A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing"
Reporter at the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles. Former @latimes.com reporter, native Kansan and green thumb. 🌱 Tips and ideas: laura.nelson@wsj.com, or on Signal (ljn.89).
Volunteer-driven grassroots org that advocates for abundant housing in Seattle and beyond. Join us! https://linktr.ee/seattleyimby
A bot by @grids.reillywood.com that posts updates from Vancouver's shapeyourcity.ca website. Every project I post requires a discretionary approval process. https://github.com/rgwood/RezoningScraper
Architect, housing mostly. Admirer of beautiful places. Will bike anywhere, but might take a while. OK, KS, IL, PA, Samoa, IN, then OH.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, in SROs, or on lots smaller than 10,000 sqft — the rich and poor alike.
Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; universal access, opportunity & upward mobility.
Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream
Research That Moves Us
Advancing research, education and civic engagement on the many pressing transportation issues facing our cities, state, nation and world today.
Patent attorney, astrophysicist, & Stack-and-Packist 🏙️🥑🔋⛷️. Ready to help enforce state housing law.
Deputy Executive Editor, The Atlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/stuck-by-yoni-appelbaum/
The law prof at UC Davis. Dad. Denizen of San Francisco. Patron of Amtrak. Tweets are my own, not statements of UC. (he/him)
Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
Journalist covering housing, transit and rail. Writing in CityLab, Fast Company and on Substack.
"The Unfinished Metropolis" out now: https://shorturl.at/PInVb
Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Transportation research @uclaits.bsky.social 🚌 • UCLA Luskin alum 🐻 • Planning Commissioner @cityofsantamonica.bsky.social 🎡 • formerly @sfmta.com 🌉 and @newhavendot.bsky.social 🍕 • he/him/his • views my own
its.ucla.edu/jacob-wasserman
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Award-winning nonprofit local news provider in Berkeley, California. Powered by Cityside Journalism Initiative.
CA Assemblymember District 24. Chair CA Legislative Progressive Caucus. Corporate-Free, NUMTOT from the South Bay 🏳️🌈🌹
Strategic communications consultant with some housing know-how. Former freelance journalist, housing columnist @sfexaminer.bsky.social and organizer @dsasf.org. 🌹🏳️🌈
Everyone deserves the opportunity to live a good life in a prospering place.
We envision a country where no matter where you live, or who you are, you can enjoy living in a place that is healthy, prosperous, and resilient.
smartgrowthamerica.org
Urban Planner, Partner in Speck Dempsey, author of Walkable City, Walkable City Rules, and other stuff I'd like you to read.
B+ dad and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Marquette too
Proudly serving Los Angeles City Council District 4
Consultant - Energy and Climate
LA has the best bones of any city in the world. It can become a true world capital if we only let it. Sign up at https://futureis.la
The national convening for the pro-homes movement. Heading to Raleigh, NC in 2026! Follow along here and sign up at yimby.town for announcements.
Los Angeles via Nashville. Union-side labor lawyer, YIMBY, feminist. I belong to no organized political party - I’m a Democrat.
Titan Up/Anchor Down
Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
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