Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.
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FYI Boston area folks: this is happening tonights
It's getting a bunch of circulation on facebook, but haven't seen it much on here yet
@mass50501.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @bostonindivisible.bsky.social
It's getting a bunch of circulation on facebook, but haven't seen it much on here yet
@mass50501.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @bostonindivisible.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 PM
FYI Boston area folks: this is happening tonights
It's getting a bunch of circulation on facebook, but haven't seen it much on here yet
@mass50501.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @bostonindivisible.bsky.social
It's getting a bunch of circulation on facebook, but haven't seen it much on here yet
@mass50501.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @bostonindivisible.bsky.social
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It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
This was inevitable. The Trump Administration *made* it inevitable. And the Republican Congress signed off on it when they radically expanded DHS's budget. They're all getting what they asked for.
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
This was inevitable. The Trump Administration *made* it inevitable. And the Republican Congress signed off on it when they radically expanded DHS's budget. They're all getting what they asked for.
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Bay Resistance has an anti-war organizing call tonight as well as many local organizing meetings in the East, West, and South Bay coming up - get the details at www.bayresistance.org/events
Events — Bay Resistance
www.bayresistance.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Bay Resistance has an anti-war organizing call tonight as well as many local organizing meetings in the East, West, and South Bay coming up - get the details at www.bayresistance.org/events
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The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
I also cannot emphasize enough that these homes are being offered for rent. People still live in them!
I know people on this website are likely to be more amenable to this than I am, but I want to stress that institutional investor purchases of single family homes are a microscopic share of the market and so you’re basically not gonna see material changes in home prices from this
TRUMP: I AM IMMEDIATELY TAKING STEPS TO BAN LARGE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS FROM BUYING MORE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES
January 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I also cannot emphasize enough that these homes are being offered for rent. People still live in them!
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*sighs so heavily that my lungs collapse*
TRUMP: I AM IMMEDIATELY TAKING STEPS TO BAN LARGE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS FROM BUYING MORE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES
January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
*sighs so heavily that my lungs collapse*
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MPR news on the Minneapolis incident
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
MPR news on the Minneapolis incident
Didn't know you could do this, but I am now accepting sponcon deals for my forthcoming book.
January 7, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Didn't know you could do this, but I am now accepting sponcon deals for my forthcoming book.
Aside from the obvious moral urgency of taking a stand against imperialism, it's incomprehensible to me that so many Democratic sages fail to see the political opportunity presented by another Republican president rushing into a disastrous war of choice.
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Aside from the obvious moral urgency of taking a stand against imperialism, it's incomprehensible to me that so many Democratic sages fail to see the political opportunity presented by another Republican president rushing into a disastrous war of choice.
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America is also losing jobs in the homebuilding sector as the number of units under construction rapidly drops, leading to a massive slowdown in overall construction employment growth.
The US has added only 52k construction jobs over the last year compared to 191k the year prior.
The US has added only 52k construction jobs over the last year compared to 191k the year prior.
January 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
America is also losing jobs in the homebuilding sector as the number of units under construction rapidly drops, leading to a massive slowdown in overall construction employment growth.
The US has added only 52k construction jobs over the last year compared to 191k the year prior.
The US has added only 52k construction jobs over the last year compared to 191k the year prior.
I'm not sure if it would be sufficient to recover anything like the international standing that U.S. used to enjoy, but if nothing else public officials and regular people should be engaged in unified, unyielding resistance to Trump's neo-imperialism as a matter of personal honor.
January 6, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I'm not sure if it would be sufficient to recover anything like the international standing that U.S. used to enjoy, but if nothing else public officials and regular people should be engaged in unified, unyielding resistance to Trump's neo-imperialism as a matter of personal honor.
A Jefferson quote I find myself thinking about very often these days: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
A Jefferson quote I find myself thinking about very often these days: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
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Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
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filtering *of the new housing itself* takes a while
but of course that's not the primary mechanism by which new housing lowers costs!
but of course that's not the primary mechanism by which new housing lowers costs!
January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
filtering *of the new housing itself* takes a while
but of course that's not the primary mechanism by which new housing lowers costs!
but of course that's not the primary mechanism by which new housing lowers costs!
Every once in a while I see supply skeptics motte-and-bailey themselves into saying, "Okay, maybe filtering works, but it takes years and years to see even marginal improvements." And, well,
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Every once in a while I see supply skeptics motte-and-bailey themselves into saying, "Okay, maybe filtering works, but it takes years and years to see even marginal improvements." And, well,
Pajamas are underrated. It's nice to put on a little outfit just for going to bed.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Pajamas are underrated. It's nice to put on a little outfit just for going to bed.
I've only seen NO BEARS but it felt novelistic (laudatory) in a way that few other movies can match. Maybe the work of Joachim Trier, but NO BEARS felt more like a "social novel" as opposed to Trier's narrower focus.
I'll start: people make Jafar Panahi sound like homework by focusing on the political context and danger in which he works, but I haven't seen a single thing by him that wasn't joyously inventive, entertaining, and sly. If you haven't watched his work yet, the new one is a good place to start.
January 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I've only seen NO BEARS but it felt novelistic (laudatory) in a way that few other movies can match. Maybe the work of Joachim Trier, but NO BEARS felt more like a "social novel" as opposed to Trier's narrower focus.
Some news worth celebrating www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
Homicides fell to record lows in S.F., Oakland in 2025
Oakland saw its fewest homicides since 1967, and San Francisco’s were the lowest since 1954.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Some news worth celebrating www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
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The late stages of writing a book are like this endlessly receding horizon where there's always just a few more edits you need to make, and then you hit deadline.
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The late stages of writing a book are like this endlessly receding horizon where there's always just a few more edits you need to make, and then you hit deadline.
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Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.
January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.