Justin La Mort
@lamort.bsky.social
Attorney. Educator. Activist. (he/him)
Interested in the intersection of space, place, and the law with democratic accountability and economic inequality.
Opinions are at best my own and not my employer.
https://www.justinlamort.com/
Interested in the intersection of space, place, and the law with democratic accountability and economic inequality.
Opinions are at best my own and not my employer.
https://www.justinlamort.com/
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In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…
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'In limiting spending on long-term housing to just 30 percent of the $3.5 billion in aid — from about 90 percent this year — the Trump plan would deal a crippling blow to a movement called Housing First."
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
'In limiting spending on long-term housing to just 30 percent of the $3.5 billion in aid — from about 90 percent this year — the Trump plan would deal a crippling blow to a movement called Housing First."
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Their 50-year mortgage plan bombed & they won’t build housing or touch Wall Street landlords, so they’re hoping you blame your high rent on immigrants.
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Their 50-year mortgage plan bombed & they won’t build housing or touch Wall Street landlords, so they’re hoping you blame your high rent on immigrants.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
NYC is full of nerds. The municipal archives gave 1 day notice of a two day book sale. Here is what’s left of the NYC history and politics table after the first 2 hours.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NYC is full of nerds. The municipal archives gave 1 day notice of a two day book sale. Here is what’s left of the NYC history and politics table after the first 2 hours.
<NY Post for the next 2 months>
Mayor Commdani, who 1,019,870 real New Yorkers voted against, is to blame for _______.
Mayor Commdani, who 1,019,870 real New Yorkers voted against, is to blame for _______.
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
<NY Post for the next 2 months>
Mayor Commdani, who 1,019,870 real New Yorkers voted against, is to blame for _______.
Mayor Commdani, who 1,019,870 real New Yorkers voted against, is to blame for _______.
Looks like a terrible night for unlikable billionaires and/or sex offenders!!!
Here's a thread of what today's election across the country means for housing. (1)
Here's a thread of what today's election across the country means for housing. (1)
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Looks like a terrible night for unlikable billionaires and/or sex offenders!!!
Here's a thread of what today's election across the country means for housing. (1)
Here's a thread of what today's election across the country means for housing. (1)
My politics are the joy of solidarity around Marathon Sunday.
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My politics are the joy of solidarity around Marathon Sunday.
Really great to see Sandy Nurse, her City Council colleagues, and the Court address the futility doctrine and other loopholes that promote illegal lockouts.
A Brooklyn woman spent three years in a shelter after her landlord locked her out https://gothamist.com/news/a-brooklyn-woman-spent-three-years-in-a-shelter-after-her-landlord-locked-her-out
A Brooklyn woman spent three years in a shelter after her landlord locked her out
Joan Rodriguez stands outside the apartment building in downtown Brooklyn where she lived for about four years before she says her landlord illegally locked her out.
It’s illegal in New York to lock a resident out of their apartment without a warrant. Some landlords are doing it anyway. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Really great to see Sandy Nurse, her City Council colleagues, and the Court address the futility doctrine and other loopholes that promote illegal lockouts.
This is the deciding factor for when I’m voting
HUGE HUGE HUGE YES there will be Halloween voting stickers AND “a borough specific sticker for each day of EV” says the BOE!!
plan your early voting accordingly
plan your early voting accordingly
this is such vital info. I’m reaching out to the Board of Elections right now
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is the deciding factor for when I’m voting
Is there a website where I can put bets on Eric Adams & Andrew Cuomo leaving the city again before the end of 2026?
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Is there a website where I can put bets on Eric Adams & Andrew Cuomo leaving the city again before the end of 2026?
It is that time of year where New Yorkers find out that more of our neighbors are students who are homeless. This year tally comes out to 154,000 or nearly 1 in 7 students.
There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...
There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...
154,000 NYC Students Were Homeless Last School Year, Another Record High
The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, is larger than the entire Dallas school system.
www.thecity.nyc
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It is that time of year where New Yorkers find out that more of our neighbors are students who are homeless. This year tally comes out to 154,000 or nearly 1 in 7 students.
There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...
There are more homeless students in NYC than total students in Philly, Denver, or San Diego.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/20/1...
Thinking about what lead to a 2017 graduation cap with Mickey Mouse ears being put into my trash can during a nor’easter.
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thinking about what lead to a 2017 graduation cap with Mickey Mouse ears being put into my trash can during a nor’easter.
Today’s unwanted text is from Eric Adams PAC. I would love to know how he’s corrected course.
August 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Today’s unwanted text is from Eric Adams PAC. I would love to know how he’s corrected course.
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I need people to understand:
1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined
2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit
3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases
1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined
2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit
3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases
"Trump is preparing to revoke eviction protections for people living in federal public housing and project-based rental assistance programs."
"[I]n some jurisdictions, people [..] could receive no notice at all before formal eviction procedures begin."
#USA #Housing
"[I]n some jurisdictions, people [..] could receive no notice at all before formal eviction procedures begin."
#USA #Housing
Trump the Landlord Plans to Speed Up Evictions From Public Housing
The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice.
theintercept.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I need people to understand:
1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined
2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit
3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases
1. Every US state already evicts more people annually than all of the EU combined
2. In most states, having a disability, health emergency, or a financial hardship is not a defense to an eviction suit
3. In most states, there is no right to counsel in eviction cases
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Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
August 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
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Research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that federal government's sweep of homelessness in DC & other cities is a fool's errand.
Criminalization & forced relocation:
—Are an ineffective deterrent
—Disrupt resources access
—Prolong homelessness
—Cost a lot of $
What solves homelessness? Housing.
Criminalization & forced relocation:
—Are an ineffective deterrent
—Disrupt resources access
—Prolong homelessness
—Cost a lot of $
What solves homelessness? Housing.
The National Guard Won’t End Homelessness. Housing Resources Can.
Despite a nationwide trend toward criminalizing people experiencing homelessness, decades of research show that housing resources and other supports remain the best solution to helping people exit hom...
www.urban.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that federal government's sweep of homelessness in DC & other cities is a fool's errand.
Criminalization & forced relocation:
—Are an ineffective deterrent
—Disrupt resources access
—Prolong homelessness
—Cost a lot of $
What solves homelessness? Housing.
Criminalization & forced relocation:
—Are an ineffective deterrent
—Disrupt resources access
—Prolong homelessness
—Cost a lot of $
What solves homelessness? Housing.
Here are 10 reasons why Andrew Cuomo's rent stabilization plan is an incredibly stupid political stunt that makes no sense as public policy and would cause immense harm if ever enacted.
August 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Here are 10 reasons why Andrew Cuomo's rent stabilization plan is an incredibly stupid political stunt that makes no sense as public policy and would cause immense harm if ever enacted.
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“People who need it”, I’ve got friends who have moved to Jersey City because everything that isn’t stabilized in the city and is within like five express stops of Manhattan is now like $4k/m. Everyone needs more housing and now.
What an unserious conversation.
What an unserious conversation.
August 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“People who need it”, I’ve got friends who have moved to Jersey City because everything that isn’t stabilized in the city and is within like five express stops of Manhattan is now like $4k/m. Everyone needs more housing and now.
What an unserious conversation.
What an unserious conversation.
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-Cut Medicaid & SNAP
-Push to cut rental assistance
-Push states & cities to criminalize and forcibly institutionalize homeless (which don’t have resources other than police and jails primarily)
= absolute nightmare
-Push to cut rental assistance
-Push states & cities to criminalize and forcibly institutionalize homeless (which don’t have resources other than police and jails primarily)
= absolute nightmare
BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center
Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…
buff.ly
July 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
-Cut Medicaid & SNAP
-Push to cut rental assistance
-Push states & cities to criminalize and forcibly institutionalize homeless (which don’t have resources other than police and jails primarily)
= absolute nightmare
-Push to cut rental assistance
-Push states & cities to criminalize and forcibly institutionalize homeless (which don’t have resources other than police and jails primarily)
= absolute nightmare
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Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Zohran Mamdani Says He’s a Democratic Socialist. What Does That Mean?
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Excuse me while I spend the next hour looking at vote totals on this map.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
How Your Neighborhood Voted in the NYC Mayoral Election
Check out this map to see which candidates got the most first-round votes in every election district in New York City.
www.thecity.nyc
June 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Excuse me while I spend the next hour looking at vote totals on this map.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Heath Ledger, Elliott Smith, The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, and Ed Koch all lived in New York City more recently than Cuomo.
June 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Heath Ledger, Elliott Smith, The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, and Ed Koch all lived in New York City more recently than Cuomo.
When can I go vote for Brad Landers? So refreshing to see someone put their values over their ego or ambition.
June 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
When can I go vote for Brad Landers? So refreshing to see someone put their values over their ego or ambition.