Esteban
@estebananza.bsky.social
I'm an affordable housing attorney and this is where I post my personal views. Talk to me about trains, cities, and safe, healthy, attainable homes for all. Temple Law/UR Alum | 🏳️🌈 he/him | 📍philly :)
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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This article asks the simple question, "We must ask the critics of inclusionary housing a specific, uncomfortable question: If we eliminate these requirements tomorrow, will the private market build a single unit affordable to a janitor?"
What Critics Get Wrong About Inclusionary Housing
Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the full picture.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This article asks the simple question, "We must ask the critics of inclusionary housing a specific, uncomfortable question: If we eliminate these requirements tomorrow, will the private market build a single unit affordable to a janitor?"
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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It's not just Minnesota which has a flood of habeas cases; so many are emanating from the Moshannon ICE facility near Johnstown PA that the WDPA chief judge has entered an administrative order assigning 3 Pittsburgh-based judges to also hear their claims.
www.pawd.uscourts.gov/sites/pawd/f...
www.pawd.uscourts.gov/sites/pawd/f...
February 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM
It's not just Minnesota which has a flood of habeas cases; so many are emanating from the Moshannon ICE facility near Johnstown PA that the WDPA chief judge has entered an administrative order assigning 3 Pittsburgh-based judges to also hear their claims.
www.pawd.uscourts.gov/sites/pawd/f...
www.pawd.uscourts.gov/sites/pawd/f...
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One key measure is a statewide cap on rental application fees, ensuring Pennsylvanians aren’t exploited by excessive move-in costs. Last year, my Move-In Affordability Plan addressed this same issue locally, which is why I was pleased to see this initiative raised up by the Governor. (🧵2/5)
February 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
One key measure is a statewide cap on rental application fees, ensuring Pennsylvanians aren’t exploited by excessive move-in costs. Last year, my Move-In Affordability Plan addressed this same issue locally, which is why I was pleased to see this initiative raised up by the Governor. (🧵2/5)
In regional real estate news:
"A spokesperson for ICE did not answer any questions about the Berks County warehouse purchase and instead lauded the agency’s targeting of 'vicious criminals.'"
share.inquirer.com/GZKAUp
"A spokesperson for ICE did not answer any questions about the Berks County warehouse purchase and instead lauded the agency’s targeting of 'vicious criminals.'"
share.inquirer.com/GZKAUp
ICE buys $87 million warehouse in Berks County as it plots expansion of immigration detention centers across the U.S.
The building is one of at least 23 that ICE plans to convert into an immigration detention facility, Bloomberg reports. The Berks County warehouse could house up to 1,500 beds.
share.inquirer.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
In regional real estate news:
"A spokesperson for ICE did not answer any questions about the Berks County warehouse purchase and instead lauded the agency’s targeting of 'vicious criminals.'"
share.inquirer.com/GZKAUp
"A spokesperson for ICE did not answer any questions about the Berks County warehouse purchase and instead lauded the agency’s targeting of 'vicious criminals.'"
share.inquirer.com/GZKAUp
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Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
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every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
Vibes are just awful today, so please enjoy a pic of my most problematic child and a pic of my least problematic child (guess which is which)
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Vibes are just awful today, so please enjoy a pic of my most problematic child and a pic of my least problematic child (guess which is which)
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RHLS joined the Coalition for Equitable Energy and Housing in Pennsylvania to submit recommendations on PA Act 129. As the PUC prepares to oversee Phase 5, it is more important than ever to help multi-family residences bring down their utility costs. Read more on our website:
RHLS submits recommendations to the Pennsylvania Utility Commission on the energy efficiency and conservation program known as Act 129. - RHLS Website
Affordable utilities are critical to housing security for families with low incomes. For affordable housing providers that include utility costs in the rent they charge tenants, maintaining…
buff.ly
January 28, 2026 at 5:05 PM
RHLS joined the Coalition for Equitable Energy and Housing in Pennsylvania to submit recommendations on PA Act 129. As the PUC prepares to oversee Phase 5, it is more important than ever to help multi-family residences bring down their utility costs. Read more on our website:
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We have a masked death squad wandering our neighborhoods seemingly accountable to nobody but the President
January 24, 2026 at 4:03 PM
We have a masked death squad wandering our neighborhoods seemingly accountable to nobody but the President
The Floridian urge to fill up the bathtub before a storm >>>>
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
The Floridian urge to fill up the bathtub before a storm >>>>
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"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
was not expecting to add a theological-cultural reflection on a wet burger to the list of things that rattle around in my mind like seeds in dried gourd tysm <3
When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...
God. Cheese. Burger.
An exercise in ecstatic American theology
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
was not expecting to add a theological-cultural reflection on a wet burger to the list of things that rattle around in my mind like seeds in dried gourd tysm <3
Sometimes a post appears on your feed at the exact second you need to see it
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Sometimes a post appears on your feed at the exact second you need to see it
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 AM
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
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Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Let this radicalize you.
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Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless
Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.
www.city-journal.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
My favorite activity is spending 62719491 hours on an in-depth character backstory for a chill dnd one-shot.
January 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
My favorite activity is spending 62719491 hours on an in-depth character backstory for a chill dnd one-shot.
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BREAKING: Dan Ceisler, the new sheriff of Pennsylvania's Bucks County, just announced he has terminated his county's 287(g) contract with ICE.
Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:
Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
BREAKING: Dan Ceisler, the new sheriff of Pennsylvania's Bucks County, just announced he has terminated his county's 287(g) contract with ICE.
Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:
Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:
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Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...
January 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...
*despondently, with bags under my eyes and after sighing deeply* imagine... if Obama... had done this...
Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
January 14, 2026 at 1:08 AM
*despondently, with bags under my eyes and after sighing deeply* imagine... if Obama... had done this...
Desperately clinging to any and all good news, including this report from the American Cancer Society indicating that the five-year survival rate for all cancers has hit a milestone 70%!
Cancer statistics, 2026
Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States and compiles the most recent data on population-based cancer occurrence and outcomes u...
acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Desperately clinging to any and all good news, including this report from the American Cancer Society indicating that the five-year survival rate for all cancers has hit a milestone 70%!