Keren Horn
@kerenhorn.bsky.social
Economics Faculty @UMassBoston Thinking about cities, housing and labor. Teaching #UrbanEcon. Living in #Dorchester, #Boston. #YIMBY #MAPoli https://kerenhornecon.com
Excited to see our very own @umassboston.bsky.social @profcew.bsky.social on this list! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/20/m... - thinking about balancing growth with equity. #GlobeSummit2025
Globe Summit 2025 to gather trailblazers, change-makers to discuss ‘Revolutionary Ideas’ - The Boston Globe
The annual summit brings leaders together "to tackle the biggest questions and challenges facing Boston and New England,” Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes said.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Excited to see our very own @umassboston.bsky.social @profcew.bsky.social on this list! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/20/m... - thinking about balancing growth with equity. #GlobeSummit2025
Time to keep the promises we make to our students.
OPINION: OVER THE LAST two years, Massachusetts launched a bold initiative with a clear message: college is accessible again. Community college? Tuition- and fee-free for everyone. Four-year public college? Tuition- and […]
Cuts to public higher ed stipends break state promise, send horrible message - CommonWealth Beacon
OVER THE LAST two years, Massachusetts launched a bold initiative with a clear message: college is accessible again. Community college? Tuition- and
buff.ly
October 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Time to keep the promises we make to our students.
October 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
As I prepare for my next class this is the thought the both motivates me and paralyzes me - are my students still going to get hired? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/28/b...
Some Boston-area companies are hiring fewer workers due to AI. Will that trend continue? - The Boston Globe
Big companies are finally talking more specifically about the impact of artificial intelligence on their workforces.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As I prepare for my next class this is the thought the both motivates me and paralyzes me - are my students still going to get hired? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/28/b...
substack.com/@noahpinion/... - Very interesting thought experiment but I disagree. I propose instead to take issues of congestion more seriously. If we can maintain mobility as we density cities maybe backlash won’t be so bad? #CongestionPricing #BuildMABuild #MAYIMBY #MAPoli
What if local control can actually help build housing?
Some places want to build. Maybe we should just let them.
substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
substack.com/@noahpinion/... - Very interesting thought experiment but I disagree. I propose instead to take issues of congestion more seriously. If we can maintain mobility as we density cities maybe backlash won’t be so bad? #CongestionPricing #BuildMABuild #MAYIMBY #MAPoli
First #LegoHQ now #HasbroHQ - Is it safe to say #BostonisFun now? I now know two places to work that may keep my boys in Boston when they grow up!?! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/08/m... Added to my lecture for tomorrow! #UrbanEcon
Hasbro to move headquarters to Boston - The Boston Globe
The company will relocate its Rhode Island operations to 400 Summer St. in Boston’s Seaport District, a 630,000 square-foot, 16-story laboratory building.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
First #LegoHQ now #HasbroHQ - Is it safe to say #BostonisFun now? I now know two places to work that may keep my boys in Boston when they grow up!?! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/08/m... Added to my lecture for tomorrow! #UrbanEcon
First day of school for me! Arrived by bike and now reading @bostonglobe.com @jeffjacoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/o... - let’s not forget that commuting by bike is FUN! I showed up energetic and ready to teach with a packet of articles on #congestionpricing #UrbanEcon #GoBeacons.
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
First day of school for me! Arrived by bike and now reading @bostonglobe.com @jeffjacoby.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/o... - let’s not forget that commuting by bike is FUN! I showed up energetic and ready to teach with a packet of articles on #congestionpricing #UrbanEcon #GoBeacons.
@bostonglobe.com spot on again. I explain the idea of the costs of inclusionary zoning in my class every semester and I can never get it out this clearly. Let’s have a mayoral debate about housing! (And possibly the commercial vacancy rate). #BuildMABuild
July 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
@bostonglobe.com spot on again. I explain the idea of the costs of inclusionary zoning in my class every semester and I can never get it out this clearly. Let’s have a mayoral debate about housing! (And possibly the commercial vacancy rate). #BuildMABuild
Very proud of myself for finally making my own website. Thank you #chatgpt for making it relatively painless! kerenhornecon.com
Keren Horn
kerenhornecon.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Very proud of myself for finally making my own website. Thank you #chatgpt for making it relatively painless! kerenhornecon.com
Amazing work to create a valuable new resource for housing scholars by @johninfranca.bsky.social and large team of researchers! 🙏 Also highlights the importance of #MBTACommunities which is focused on legalizing multi-family development in more of the state. #BuildMABuild #MAPoli
A new report by the National Zoning Atlas found that apartment buildings with four units or more can only be built, under current local zoning rules, on roughly 4 percent of the land in this state.
96 percent of Massachusetts is off limits to most apartment buildings. Some hope a new map will change that. - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Zoning Atlas is part of a broader effort to document the zoning of every state in the US.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Amazing work to create a valuable new resource for housing scholars by @johninfranca.bsky.social and large team of researchers! 🙏 Also highlights the importance of #MBTACommunities which is focused on legalizing multi-family development in more of the state. #BuildMABuild #MAPoli
Anyone know anything about this innovation hub? Anyone in the UMass system connected? Seems like a perfect moment to make a connection as I rethink all my teaching/assessment materials for this fall.
Spoke this morning to the inaugural head of the Mass. AI Innovation Hub, Sabrina Mansur:
www.masslive.com/news/2025/05...
www.masslive.com/news/2025/05...
New head of $100M AI hub says Massachusetts’ strengths shouldn’t be a ‘best-kept secret’
Sabrina Mansur will now be leading a $100 million initiative, the Massachusetts AI Hub, intended to help build the state’s strength in the rapidly evolving sector.
www.masslive.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Anyone know anything about this innovation hub? Anyone in the UMass system connected? Seems like a perfect moment to make a connection as I rethink all my teaching/assessment materials for this fall.
Stunning #ADU in #MetroWest - glad to learn about what some are building under this new policy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m... I wonder what the local reception has been of these new units? #MassPoli #BuildMABuild www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...
From barn to home: MetroWest couple creates and ADU for returning kids - The Boston Globe
With a smart layout, high ceilings, and storage built into the walls, the unit lives larger than its 900 square feet.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Stunning #ADU in #MetroWest - glad to learn about what some are building under this new policy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m... I wonder what the local reception has been of these new units? #MassPoli #BuildMABuild www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...
We need to take this seriously in Boston when considering how costly Wu’s move
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
Inclusionary zoning is a targeted tax on the construction of new housing — the absolute worst way you could think of to raise money for investments in social housing projects.
www.slowboring.com/p/inclusiona...
www.slowboring.com/p/inclusiona...
Inclusionary zoning is a tax on housing
Sometimes, policies have unintended consequences or unforeseen downsides
www.slowboring.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We need to take this seriously in Boston when considering how costly Wu’s move
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
to up #IDP requirements from 13% to 20% has been for #Boston. In a time when new construction is at record lows and prices are record highs every lost unit is a huge cost. #BosPoli #MAPoli #BuildMABuild
#Boston mayoral primary should be focused on this - how do we get more housing built here? Thank you @andrewbrinker.bsky.social for your continued detailed coverage. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/30/b... Bringing #IDP back down to 13% feels like a reasonable first step. #BuildMABuild
July 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#Boston mayoral primary should be focused on this - how do we get more housing built here? Thank you @andrewbrinker.bsky.social for your continued detailed coverage. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/30/b... Bringing #IDP back down to 13% feels like a reasonable first step. #BuildMABuild
Thank you @kate-sinding-daly.bsky.social for helping me start my day on a positive note. Keeping this quiet but not too quiet. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/offs... #MAPoli #WindEnergy via @cwbeacon.bsky.social
Offshore wind is alive and well. Maybe we should just keep quiet about that. - CommonWealth Beacon
Is it possible that the predictions of the death of offshore wind power – one of our single best tools in the fight against climate change – were greatly exaggerated?
commonwealthbeacon.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thank you @kate-sinding-daly.bsky.social for helping me start my day on a positive note. Keeping this quiet but not too quiet. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/offs... #MAPoli #WindEnergy via @cwbeacon.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/b... Great #DataViz from @andrewbrinker.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com. Clarification - in my quote on the type of housing we allow I was referencing #MBTACommunities and the importance of legalizing multi-family in ALL communities. #BuildMABuild #MAYIMBY #MAPoli
June 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/b... Great #DataViz from @andrewbrinker.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com. Clarification - in my quote on the type of housing we allow I was referencing #MBTACommunities and the importance of legalizing multi-family in ALL communities. #BuildMABuild #MAYIMBY #MAPoli
June 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
mobileapp.bostonglobe.com/06022025_07d... - As an employee at a largely state funded university @umassboston.bsky.social I think about this a lot. We have no mechanism tying our hiring to the interests of the state? I think my colleagues would argue this would be a violation of academic freedom…
Can elite universities remain global?
One reason schools have arguably been caught off guard: They have misread the nation.
mobileapp.bostonglobe.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
mobileapp.bostonglobe.com/06022025_07d... - As an employee at a largely state funded university @umassboston.bsky.social I think about this a lot. We have no mechanism tying our hiring to the interests of the state? I think my colleagues would argue this would be a violation of academic freedom…
Undergraduate commencement at @umassboston.bsky.social. Congratulations to the class of 2025 and especially to our Economics majors
May 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It’s a beautiful day for graduate commencement! Congrats to our UMass Boston MA Applied Economics grads!
May 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is a fabulous idea - #NewEnglandScienceFund #NESF @massgovernor.bsky.social interested? @jebyrnes.bsky.social - I am pretty sure @bostonglobe.com would publish an oped on this?
And now I wonder this even more…
Continue to wonder if it isn’t time for individual states or an interstate compact to create their own nsf-style science funding agency….
May 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is a fabulous idea - #NewEnglandScienceFund #NESF @massgovernor.bsky.social interested? @jebyrnes.bsky.social - I am pretty sure @bostonglobe.com would publish an oped on this?
Reposted by Keren Horn
And now I wonder this even more…
Continue to wonder if it isn’t time for individual states or an interstate compact to create their own nsf-style science funding agency….
May 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And now I wonder this even more…
I’ll read anything @bostonglobe.com writes about #TrainDaddyEng - Just the feel good story I needed to start my day. #MAPoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/m...
May 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’ll read anything @bostonglobe.com writes about #TrainDaddyEng - Just the feel good story I needed to start my day. #MAPoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/m...
I saw @waymo.bsky.social mapping this weekend and thought exactly this. As someone who runs, bikes, drives through #KCircle regularly I wholeheartedly agree. No software could figure out this chaos. Maybe it’s time we paint some lines on the road?!? #BosPoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/l...
May 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I saw @waymo.bsky.social mapping this weekend and thought exactly this. As someone who runs, bikes, drives through #KCircle regularly I wholeheartedly agree. No software could figure out this chaos. Maybe it’s time we paint some lines on the road?!? #BosPoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/l...
💯 @ashishkjha.bsky.social. Beautiful paragraph about the #UrbanAgglomeration in #KendallSquare. As federal funds dwindle how can we help support the innovators that fuel our city’s success? @massgovernor.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...
May 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
💯 @ashishkjha.bsky.social. Beautiful paragraph about the #UrbanAgglomeration in #KendallSquare. As federal funds dwindle how can we help support the innovators that fuel our city’s success? @massgovernor.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...