Caroline Nagy
@carolinenagy.bsky.social
Associate Director for Housing at AFR, working on corporate landlords and climate change+insurance. Appalachian Ohioan living in upstate NY, friend to all dogs. Personal account: my dumb takes are mine not AFR's.
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some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
March 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
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In 1985, a senior Reagan official declared: "We're getting out of the housing business. Period." The result? Millions of people forced into housing precarity and homelessness.
Now, history is repeating: the Trump administration plans to gut HUD, pouring gasoline on an already catastrophic crisis.
Now, history is repeating: the Trump administration plans to gut HUD, pouring gasoline on an already catastrophic crisis.
March 10 Day of Action: Protect HUD, Protect Affordable Homes!
What’s Happening: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s approximately 8,300 employees are responsible for managing affordable housing programs that serve millions of people nati...
nlihc.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In 1985, a senior Reagan official declared: "We're getting out of the housing business. Period." The result? Millions of people forced into housing precarity and homelessness.
Now, history is repeating: the Trump administration plans to gut HUD, pouring gasoline on an already catastrophic crisis.
Now, history is repeating: the Trump administration plans to gut HUD, pouring gasoline on an already catastrophic crisis.
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Governor Hochul should remove Eric Adams from office.
February 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Governor Hochul should remove Eric Adams from office.
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Here's our reaction to the CA FAIR plan bailout with a quote from @carolinenagy.bsky.social.
CA is basically asking insurers to split the $1b bill with the public.
Two things you might not realize though:
ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...
CA is basically asking insurers to split the $1b bill with the public.
Two things you might not realize though:
ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...
News Release: California Hands $500M Insurance Bailout Bill to Families & Homeowners - Americans for Financial Reform
The California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a $1 billion bailout of the state’s FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) plan to help cover over 3,400 claims it has received ...
ourfinancialsecurity.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Here's our reaction to the CA FAIR plan bailout with a quote from @carolinenagy.bsky.social.
CA is basically asking insurers to split the $1b bill with the public.
Two things you might not realize though:
ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...
CA is basically asking insurers to split the $1b bill with the public.
Two things you might not realize though:
ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/02/news...
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It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: if a political party withholds the effort to earn votes and you use their inevitable loss as an excuse to scold strangers on the internet instead of holding that party accountable: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
here's audio of Trump saying he wants to "clear out" Gaza and move Palestinians elsewhere
January 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: if a political party withholds the effort to earn votes and you use their inevitable loss as an excuse to scold strangers on the internet instead of holding that party accountable: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.
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A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵
January 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵
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Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
Health care accounts for more than 17 per cent of the U.S. economy, or around $4.5 trillion dollars, but the revenues of just two companies—CVS/Aetna and UnitedHealth—account for nearly one in every seven dollars the nation spends on health care.
The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here
Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
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In the next four years, tenant unions will deepen their organizing. They'll win safer homes, fairer leases, and local regulatory policies, all of which can build the blueprint for national change.
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
Look for the Tenant Union
Those caught in the crossfire of corporate landlords and financial engineering need a regulatory agenda to protect them.
prospect.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:27 PM
In the next four years, tenant unions will deepen their organizing. They'll win safer homes, fairer leases, and local regulatory policies, all of which can build the blueprint for national change.
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
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That face AND he shit on Matty?
December 10, 2024 at 12:49 PM
That face AND he shit on Matty?
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While billionaire industry tech, Elon Musk cries for
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be deleted, the CFPB continues to stand up for the little guy and stop industry that gouges us with junk fees, high prices, and unfair treatment #ProtectConsumers
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be deleted, the CFPB continues to stand up for the little guy and stop industry that gouges us with junk fees, high prices, and unfair treatment #ProtectConsumers
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ federal financial watchdog as ‘DOGE’ begins work
“Delete CFPB,” Elon Musk, the billionaire tech executive running the “Department of Government Efficiency,” said in an early-morning post on X.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:19 PM
While billionaire industry tech, Elon Musk cries for
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be deleted, the CFPB continues to stand up for the little guy and stop industry that gouges us with junk fees, high prices, and unfair treatment #ProtectConsumers
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be deleted, the CFPB continues to stand up for the little guy and stop industry that gouges us with junk fees, high prices, and unfair treatment #ProtectConsumers
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Clearly, Gaza alone does not explain Trump's sweeping victory. But the evidence shows that Harris’ failure to break with Biden’s policy came with a political cost—one that was higher than many had expected.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Harris’s Gaza Policy Was a Disaster on Every Level
Palestine may not have swung the election one way or another. But Democrats unquestionably paid a high price for their refusal to hold Israel accountable.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Clearly, Gaza alone does not explain Trump's sweeping victory. But the evidence shows that Harris’ failure to break with Biden’s policy came with a political cost—one that was higher than many had expected.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Why did so many working class New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump last week — and even more not vote at all?
I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
Why did so many New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump?
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Why did so many working class New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump last week — and even more not vote at all?
I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
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Inspiring: A Meta AI chatbot called "FungiFriend" got added to a mushroom forager Facebook group and immediately told members there it is safe to sauté a mushroom known to often contain deadly amounts of arsenic. Moderators say the bot was added automatically
www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-a...
www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-a...
November 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Inspiring: A Meta AI chatbot called "FungiFriend" got added to a mushroom forager Facebook group and immediately told members there it is safe to sauté a mushroom known to often contain deadly amounts of arsenic. Moderators say the bot was added automatically
www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-a...
www.404media.co/ai-chatbot-a...
Hi there! A lot of talk about how the Harris campaign/dems didn’t do enough on rents and affordable housing. Some of us have been screaming about this for awhile. My friends at @aforhj.bsky.social made this cool follow list if you want to talk housing justice! go.bsky.app/Br1s7ov
November 12, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Hi there! A lot of talk about how the Harris campaign/dems didn’t do enough on rents and affordable housing. Some of us have been screaming about this for awhile. My friends at @aforhj.bsky.social made this cool follow list if you want to talk housing justice! go.bsky.app/Br1s7ov
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Centrist dipshits: all this horrible shit is smart politics, we know how to win
[They do not win]
Centrist dipshits: our foolproof politics can be thwarted by one viral tweet from an enby portland barista
[They do not win]
Centrist dipshits: our foolproof politics can be thwarted by one viral tweet from an enby portland barista
November 11, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Centrist dipshits: all this horrible shit is smart politics, we know how to win
[They do not win]
Centrist dipshits: our foolproof politics can be thwarted by one viral tweet from an enby portland barista
[They do not win]
Centrist dipshits: our foolproof politics can be thwarted by one viral tweet from an enby portland barista
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Climate change is creating an insurance crisis. In a new piece with @carolinenagy.bsky.social we describe why we're forming the new Equitable and Just Insurance Initiative to advocate reforms shelterforce.org/2024/10/25/h...
How Can We Reform Property Insurance to Adapt to Climate Change?
Climate change is fueling more frequent and extreme disasters. Insurers are responding by dropping communities and raising premiums.
shelterforce.org
October 28, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Climate change is creating an insurance crisis. In a new piece with @carolinenagy.bsky.social we describe why we're forming the new Equitable and Just Insurance Initiative to advocate reforms shelterforce.org/2024/10/25/h...
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The hillbilly is from Greater Dayton
For one, he has spent his entire career misleading people into thinking he grew up in Appalachia and conflating Middletown, where he grew up, by saying it's in "southern Ohio" and that he spent a lot of time with his family in "nearby" Jackson, Kentucky.
Jackson is four hours away from Middletown
Jackson is four hours away from Middletown
also time for somebody to finally do an *actual* factcheck of the book, not a 'this doesn't represent the Appalachias' piece but 'did these things happen that he claims?'
July 15, 2024 at 7:35 PM
The hillbilly is from Greater Dayton
It’s amazing how some leftists see being unpleasant to be around as an indicator of personal integrity rather than the impediment to social change that it actually is.
"I deserve to be a rude because I have good opinions" isn't as cute a look (or as effective a form of advocacy) as some of y'all think
July 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM
It’s amazing how some leftists see being unpleasant to be around as an indicator of personal integrity rather than the impediment to social change that it actually is.
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the best that any of us can hope for is to die free. rest easy, king.
February 24, 2024 at 4:18 AM
the best that any of us can hope for is to die free. rest easy, king.
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NEW: Hours before a top operative for Mayor Eric Adams got into a physical altercation with migrant shelter guards on Tuesday after attempting to enter without identifying himself, he’d pulled a similar maneuver at another shelter according to a report.
Adams Operative Had Altercation at Randall’s Island Shelter Hours Before Fighting Guards at Touro
Tim Pearson showed up with 100 cops, two drones and a helicopter, locking down the island and threatening to fire a shelter manager who followed the city’s rules by asking him to show a warrant.
www.thecity.nyc
October 20, 2023 at 4:43 PM
NEW: Hours before a top operative for Mayor Eric Adams got into a physical altercation with migrant shelter guards on Tuesday after attempting to enter without identifying himself, he’d pulled a similar maneuver at another shelter according to a report.
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Chess is a game about a powerful woman needing to protect a frail man with extremely limited capabilities
August 17, 2023 at 1:09 PM
Chess is a game about a powerful woman needing to protect a frail man with extremely limited capabilities
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"This is what we describe as the financialization of human shelter."
Private equity firms, corporate landlords fueling spike in rental housing costs in Jacksonville, UNF...
Skyrocketing rents are one of the biggest complaints about housing in Jacksonville. Besides that, with so many moving to our area, there is also what the city is now calling a housing crisis.
www.news4jax.com
August 15, 2023 at 11:18 PM
"This is what we describe as the financialization of human shelter."
This weekend's sad curb find: guess they got sick of exploring with each other 💔
August 7, 2023 at 3:26 PM
This weekend's sad curb find: guess they got sick of exploring with each other 💔