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Dan Immergluck
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Professor Emeritus, Public Policy & Urban Studies, Georgia

Immergluck Housing Analytics LLC

Affordable/Fair Housing/Finance, Cities, Community Devl't, Expert Analysis & Witness
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Economics 68%
Sociology 10%
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I am Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies & Public Policy at Georgia State University & a (part-time) consultant for nonprofits & government on affordable & fair housing, community development, housing & community development finance, and related policy & planning. Latest book:
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
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In their own (teeny tiny) way, the Lions and Pistons wins yesterday and today over the Commanders and Wizards feel like some kind of karmic vengeance for what's going on in DC.

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Just watched Bernie Sanders on Maddow and in response to whether Schumer should step down from leadership, his answer was "Look Schumer is part of the Dem Establishment and if he steps down who will replace him?"

I mean... Bernie, WTF???? Take a damn stand.

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Federal agents pepper-sprayed a baby girl in Little Village this weekend. There's no limit to what these thugs will do.

To make Chicago safe again, we need ICE and CBP to get the hell out of our city.

#ice #chicago
Feds Pepper-Spray 1-Year-Old In Cicero, Use Tear Gas On Little Village Neighbors
Federal agents were shot at, according to the Department of Homeland Security, while legal observers said agents created a "dangerous and unsafe environment."
blockclubchicago.org

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It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.

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This is depraved.

“While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org

Lots of emails from pols chastising the Dem capitulation last night.

If your email doesn’t call for new leadership, please spare me.
That $21 trillion must still be in the mail. 🤡

(via @mikezaccardi.bsky.social)

2/2. State of Georgia continues to see large budget surpluses but refuses to invest seriously in affordable housing (other than a tax credit). And City of Atlanta will worsen its public finance dysfunction by extending all TIFs until 2055 & refusing to end undertaxation of commercial property.

Yes, ⏬of low-cost & subsidized units a major problem in metro Atlanta as #RedHotCity continues to see high demand. Yes, allowing ⏫multifamily, especially in suburbs, is important, but much more $ to *deeply* affordable units needed. Policy choices by Atlanta & Georgia have been insufficient. 1/2

democrats “standing tall”

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A congress and senate where power is accrued by seniority in a system without term limits or retirement age limits insures an endlessly entrenched old and in the way gerontocracy that blocks democratic renewal and change that reflects the will of the electorate.

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.

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But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.

A lot of viral video of Bovino’s terrorism yesterday in Little Village. This frame shows a branch of Self-Help Credit Union in background.

Self Help, out of North Carolina, has a storied legacy as a CDFI, a program Miller-Trump is trying to destroy.

It’s all coming together for the far-right.

Same. Durbin seems bent on completely burning up what is left of his legacy. It’s sad and infuriating thing to watch. Hope I’m wrong.
All of Dick Durbin’s offices go to voicemail with no option to leave a message on weekends. I sent a message via his website but feel
Like that is useless. These senators are isolated on a Sunday ready to give in. Has anyone gotten a live person?

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All of Dick Durbin’s offices go to voicemail with no option to leave a message on weekends. I sent a message via his website but feel
Like that is useless. These senators are isolated on a Sunday ready to give in. Has anyone gotten a live person?
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

I am a Lions fan but, man, glad the Bears won. Chicago needs all the wins they can get right now. Of almost any kind.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com