Paul Joice
@pjoice.bsky.social
Dad, housing researcher, YIMBY, all opinions are my own
This was on CDOT's list of improvements planned for 2024 and is still labeled "upcoming".
Hey CDOT can we get some concrete protection on this curve of 55th near Kenwood?
Studies show: up to 80% drivers believe that are above average drivers. Our database shows that is not the case.
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This was on CDOT's list of improvements planned for 2024 and is still labeled "upcoming".
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Of all the major cities in the United States, Chicago provides the greatest value, with robust amenities and culture without correlated housing costs. But if Chicago wants to retain that status, some things need to change.
op-ed by me, Stef, and Jasmine (co-leads for @abundanthousingil.bsky.social)
op-ed by me, Stef, and Jasmine (co-leads for @abundanthousingil.bsky.social)
Commentary: Make 2026 the year to achieve real progress on reforming housing affordability
Growth in and around Chicago depends on lawmakers getting it done, write leaders of Abundant Housing Illinois.
www.chicagobusiness.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Of all the major cities in the United States, Chicago provides the greatest value, with robust amenities and culture without correlated housing costs. But if Chicago wants to retain that status, some things need to change.
op-ed by me, Stef, and Jasmine (co-leads for @abundanthousingil.bsky.social)
op-ed by me, Stef, and Jasmine (co-leads for @abundanthousingil.bsky.social)
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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
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Halloween in a walkable neighborhood is life affirming
November 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Halloween in a walkable neighborhood is life affirming
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A lot of interesting stuff here from @housingstudies.bsky.social, but here's an [eyes emoji] one: Chicago has gained 176,000 households between 2012 and 2023, growing from almost exactly 1 million to 1.18 million housingstudies.org/blog/rental-...
Understanding Chicago’s Rental Affordability Challenges: A Review of Data, Trends, and Solutions
In advance of our upcoming State of Rental in Chicago report, this blog presents the newest data on changes in the rental housing stock and the demographic and socioeconomic makeup of renters, offerin...
housingstudies.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A lot of interesting stuff here from @housingstudies.bsky.social, but here's an [eyes emoji] one: Chicago has gained 176,000 households between 2012 and 2023, growing from almost exactly 1 million to 1.18 million housingstudies.org/blog/rental-...
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Are there reports of ICE activity in Hyde Park or Woodlawn? Chopper keeps circling low over the Midway and it's making me suspicious.
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Are there reports of ICE activity in Hyde Park or Woodlawn? Chopper keeps circling low over the Midway and it's making me suspicious.
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Email from Kenwood HS admin reports confirmed ICE this morning in Hyde Park (along 53rd, and near Kenwood hs, which is at 51st/Blackstone).
Be alert, keep your whistle on hand: quick blasts for a sighting, 3 long blasts for someone getting detained. BE LOUD. Gather a crowd. Record if you can.
Be alert, keep your whistle on hand: quick blasts for a sighting, 3 long blasts for someone getting detained. BE LOUD. Gather a crowd. Record if you can.
October 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Email from Kenwood HS admin reports confirmed ICE this morning in Hyde Park (along 53rd, and near Kenwood hs, which is at 51st/Blackstone).
Be alert, keep your whistle on hand: quick blasts for a sighting, 3 long blasts for someone getting detained. BE LOUD. Gather a crowd. Record if you can.
Be alert, keep your whistle on hand: quick blasts for a sighting, 3 long blasts for someone getting detained. BE LOUD. Gather a crowd. Record if you can.
When the fed govt pulls back, city govt needs to step up. Increasing taxes is always hard, but wealthy people have gotten a windfall from OBBBA. My own fed taxes will go down ~$10k. Chicago should seize this opportunity.
chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
Mayor Johnson proposes $16.6B budget that revives corporate head tax, imposes first-ever social media tax
Mayor Brandon Johnson promised to "challenge the ultra-rich" and corporations to shoulder the city's financial burden, and his 2026 spending plan aims to do just that. The tax-heavy budget, which is i...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When the fed govt pulls back, city govt needs to step up. Increasing taxes is always hard, but wealthy people have gotten a windfall from OBBBA. My own fed taxes will go down ~$10k. Chicago should seize this opportunity.
chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
Congrats to Tonika Johnson on a well deserved MacArthur genius grant! The folded map project is incredibly powerful, and her book Don't Go (with Maria Krysan) is outstanding. chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/10/...
Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson among 22 winners of coveted MacArthur ‘genius grant’
The Englewood native, whose work focuses on inequity in Chicago, is among this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. The list of international fellows receiving the $800,000 prize includes several artist...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Congrats to Tonika Johnson on a well deserved MacArthur genius grant! The folded map project is incredibly powerful, and her book Don't Go (with Maria Krysan) is outstanding. chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/10/...
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Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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It is insane how she keeps describing Chicago as a "war zone", when the only warlike things happening here are all DHS operations
The third amendment is about to get very relevant.
'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...
www.rawstory.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It is insane how she keeps describing Chicago as a "war zone", when the only warlike things happening here are all DHS operations
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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East Garfield Park
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
October 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
East Garfield Park
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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This is a nice working paper showing that traffic noise creates a pretty large externality. Near major roads, people are willing to pay ~6-10% more for homes after a sound barrier is built.
They estimate that traffic noise has an aggregate externality of $110 billion!
They estimate that traffic noise has an aggregate externality of $110 billion!
September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is a nice working paper showing that traffic noise creates a pretty large externality. Near major roads, people are willing to pay ~6-10% more for homes after a sound barrier is built.
They estimate that traffic noise has an aggregate externality of $110 billion!
They estimate that traffic noise has an aggregate externality of $110 billion!
Agree. This is not a serious pro-housing policy. Very disappointing.
Some sort of “limitations and local review” and a union labor requirement for an ADU (lol) sounds like, in effect, Chicago has chosen to not allow ADUs
Compromise ADU ordinance PASSES City Council in a 46-0 vote, ending a 7-year legislative battle over a modest affordable housing tool already common elsewhere in the country. Story TK
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Agree. This is not a serious pro-housing policy. Very disappointing.
Spotted in the wild in Hyde Park! #BuildTheTunnel @starlinechicago.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Spotted in the wild in Hyde Park! #BuildTheTunnel @starlinechicago.bsky.social
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Some thoughts about policy work daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/some-thought...
Some thoughts about policy work
Against Advice | The Point MagazineOne of the paradoxes of advice seems to be that those most likely to be asked for it are least likely to have taken anyone else’s: their projects of “becoming” are t...
daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io
September 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Some thoughts about policy work daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/some-thought...
Went to an open house tonight for a really cool property. All-electric, super high efficiency, casement windows, solar panels. Love the layout with an accessible ground floor ADU, perfect for an in-law suite. This is the ultimate urban "single family home". redf.in/anZg41
6537 S Rhodes Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 - 4 beds/3.5 baths
(MRED as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 4 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 6537 S Rhodes Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 ∙ $619,000 ∙ MLS# 12467604 ∙ The Home You've Been Waiting For! Tired of being priced out of the hom...
redf.in
September 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Went to an open house tonight for a really cool property. All-electric, super high efficiency, casement windows, solar panels. Love the layout with an accessible ground floor ADU, perfect for an in-law suite. This is the ultimate urban "single family home". redf.in/anZg41
Great piece on replacing lead service lines in Chicago. This is personal for me. I lived in Flint in 2014-15 during the lead water crisis. Then moved...to the place with more lead pipes than anywhere else in the country. Oops. open.substack.com/pub/citythat...
Solving Chicago's lead pipe problem
Better answers for one of the city's most difficult challenges
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Great piece on replacing lead service lines in Chicago. This is personal for me. I lived in Flint in 2014-15 during the lead water crisis. Then moved...to the place with more lead pipes than anywhere else in the country. Oops. open.substack.com/pub/citythat...
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Woodlawn neighborhood SFH+ADU house tour sneak preview
RSVP to see on 9/23
www.eventbrite.com/e/sfh-adu-el...
RSVP to see on 9/23
www.eventbrite.com/e/sfh-adu-el...
September 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Woodlawn neighborhood SFH+ADU house tour sneak preview
RSVP to see on 9/23
www.eventbrite.com/e/sfh-adu-el...
RSVP to see on 9/23
www.eventbrite.com/e/sfh-adu-el...
I'm excited for this event in Chicago! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social book is excellent. Such a rich portrait of the consequences of the housing crisis for real people. Very often upsetting but worth it.
withfriends.co/event/238616...
withfriends.co/event/238616...
10/14 - Brian Goldstone: There is No Place for Us by Build Coffee & Books
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withfriends.co
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I'm excited for this event in Chicago! @brian-goldstone.bsky.social book is excellent. Such a rich portrait of the consequences of the housing crisis for real people. Very often upsetting but worth it.
withfriends.co/event/238616...
withfriends.co/event/238616...
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When the facts are available and their meaning obvious, people who want power over you must eventually demand that you ignore what you see, what you know.
"Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
"Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
When the facts are available and their meaning obvious, people who want power over you must eventually demand that you ignore what you see, what you know.
"Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
"Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
ICE tweeted this today. The scene looked familiar...
September 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ICE tweeted this today. The scene looked familiar...
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ACTUALLY what is driving the surge is DRIVERS SPEEDING.
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ACTUALLY what is driving the surge is DRIVERS SPEEDING.
My wife and I had dinner tonight about 10 ft from Governor Pritzker! Got a photo with him and told him IL needs to build more housing!
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My wife and I had dinner tonight about 10 ft from Governor Pritzker! Got a photo with him and told him IL needs to build more housing!