Daniel Kay Hertz
@danielkayhertz.bsky.social
Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
https://daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/
https://daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/
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The rate of growth slowed down considerably last year.
For rail, the O'Hare branch was the only line making big YoY gains.
For rail, the O'Hare branch was the only line making big YoY gains.
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
The rate of growth slowed down considerably last year.
For rail, the O'Hare branch was the only line making big YoY gains.
For rail, the O'Hare branch was the only line making big YoY gains.
as they say, whoa if true (re: sizeable population increases in North Lawndale and Englewood)
January 30, 2026 at 8:54 PM
as they say, whoa if true (re: sizeable population increases in North Lawndale and Englewood)
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Crazy that if the rest of the city's population had just stayed at 2000 figures while downtown grew like this we'd be flirting with 3,000,000 Chicagoans again right now.
January 29, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Crazy that if the rest of the city's population had just stayed at 2000 figures while downtown grew like this we'd be flirting with 3,000,000 Chicagoans again right now.
What a great visualization--while ridership is still far below 2019, it's notable that, especially ex-winter, 2025 saw meaningful growth over 2024
Marathon week 2025 was once again the busiest week for CTA rail.
St. Pats (3/15: 569,090) was the highest individual day.
St. Pats (3/15: 569,090) was the highest individual day.
January 30, 2026 at 8:34 PM
What a great visualization--while ridership is still far below 2019, it's notable that, especially ex-winter, 2025 saw meaningful growth over 2024
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2024 ACS updates for Chicago Population.
Pulled zip codes so there is some fuzzyness around the edges here.
Downtown (including West Loop) population is up ~100,000 since 2000. Total change from 2023 to 2024 is a slight gain.
Pulled zip codes so there is some fuzzyness around the edges here.
Downtown (including West Loop) population is up ~100,000 since 2000. Total change from 2023 to 2024 is a slight gain.
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
2024 ACS updates for Chicago Population.
Pulled zip codes so there is some fuzzyness around the edges here.
Downtown (including West Loop) population is up ~100,000 since 2000. Total change from 2023 to 2024 is a slight gain.
Pulled zip codes so there is some fuzzyness around the edges here.
Downtown (including West Loop) population is up ~100,000 since 2000. Total change from 2023 to 2024 is a slight gain.
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People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.
People just going out here saying the literal opposite of what happened. Thune caved! Thune did! This is a cave by Thune and Senate Republicans, any possible way you cut it.
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 AM
People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.
An incredible victory for federal housing advocates that the HUD appropriations turned out as well as they did nlihc.org/sites/defaul...
nlihc.org
January 28, 2026 at 3:57 PM
An incredible victory for federal housing advocates that the HUD appropriations turned out as well as they did nlihc.org/sites/defaul...
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I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky
Could see every farm and every town
I could see all the people in this whole wide world
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...
Could see every farm and every town
I could see all the people in this whole wide world
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...
Tear the fascists down - Woody Guthrie
YouTube video by Mshrms
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:06 AM
I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky
Could see every farm and every town
I could see all the people in this whole wide world
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...
Could see every farm and every town
I could see all the people in this whole wide world
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down
That's the union that'll tear the fascists down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...
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"As of Feb. 1, people up to age 64 will have to work or volunteer at least 80 hours per month to remain eligible for food assistance. The work rules also expanded to include people who are homeless, veterans and parents of teens 14 and older."
The new work rules for the federal food assistance program start Feb. 1 in Illinois, with state officials estimating that as many as 400,000 residents could be pushed out of the program.
New SNAP work rules leave unemployed Englewood man and thousands of others at risk
chicago.suntimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:04 AM
"As of Feb. 1, people up to age 64 will have to work or volunteer at least 80 hours per month to remain eligible for food assistance. The work rules also expanded to include people who are homeless, veterans and parents of teens 14 and older."
We are going to win
Who’s next?
One demotion cannot detract from accountability.
Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
One demotion cannot detract from accountability.
Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:44 AM
We are going to win
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
The campaign against apartments and affordable housing in Edgewater as part of the Broadway rezoning has opened a new front: Attacking a widely praised and effective property tax program that supports mixed-income and affordable housing. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/26/o...
Jack Markowski: Adding tax abatements on top of Broadway’s upzoning is fiscally irresponsible
Tax abatements are not intended to be a wasteful subsidy for development that is already required to include affordable units.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The campaign against apartments and affordable housing in Edgewater as part of the Broadway rezoning has opened a new front: Attacking a widely praised and effective property tax program that supports mixed-income and affordable housing. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/26/o...
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Here are four photos I took this weekend without leaving the boundaries of Minneapolis:
August 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Here are four photos I took this weekend without leaving the boundaries of Minneapolis:
I am very dumb, can someone explain for a non-coder why I should use Claude Code and not just Opus 4.5 in the web app
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I am very dumb, can someone explain for a non-coder why I should use Claude Code and not just Opus 4.5 in the web app
A bunch of nice Minnesotans doing an impromptu Tiananmen Square bit reminds me of the quote (I forget from who) about how the Confederates and Nazis thought small-d democrats were cowardly and weak and easy to destroy, and go look for them now
This is one of the most amazing videos yet. Every single person willing to risk death
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
A bunch of nice Minnesotans doing an impromptu Tiananmen Square bit reminds me of the quote (I forget from who) about how the Confederates and Nazis thought small-d democrats were cowardly and weak and easy to destroy, and go look for them now
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This is one of the most amazing videos yet. Every single person willing to risk death
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM
This is one of the most amazing videos yet. Every single person willing to risk death
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People literally putting themselves in front of a tank and giving ICE the finger
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
People literally putting themselves in front of a tank and giving ICE the finger
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Chicago. Now. Ice out of everywhere. Snow and cold not slowing folks.
January 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Chicago. Now. Ice out of everywhere. Snow and cold not slowing folks.
Not the main point of this but I do think the fairly open misogyny of the anti-anti-Trumpers on both the left and right in the early and middle periods of Trumpism is something I wish I saw more reckoning of. Was there an equivalent in anti-"Nazi hysteria"? www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.
Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Not the main point of this but I do think the fairly open misogyny of the anti-anti-Trumpers on both the left and right in the early and middle periods of Trumpism is something I wish I saw more reckoning of. Was there an equivalent in anti-"Nazi hysteria"? www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
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As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso.
The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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no yeah something is happening
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 AM
no yeah something is happening
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stuff like this, etc
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
stuff like this, etc
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Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart | CNN
A wide grin was plastered on Marimar Martinez’s face Thursday as she thanked her attorneys outside an Illinois courtroom and told reporters, “I’m just blessed. I’m happy.”
www.cnn.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
A 🧵 of ICE abuse
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This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy
Federal agents once again fire flash bangs and tear gas into the crowd of protesters to push them back
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy