Jon Geeting
@jongeeting.bsky.social
Fishtown dad, urbanist, writer, connector. Policy and Advocacy director at Build Philly Now. Co-founder @5thsq
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This is a great story. I love what these guys are doing. But the takeaway shouldn’t be that we need to enable more people to clean their streets.
Keeping our streets clean is the city’s job and one that Philly has failed at. This is a basic function of a city govt! www.inquirer.com/columnists/k...
Keeping our streets clean is the city’s job and one that Philly has failed at. This is a basic function of a city govt! www.inquirer.com/columnists/k...
These South Philly dads bought personal street sweepers for their block: ‘It’s like a little Zamboni’
The German device isn't marketed for street cleaning, but when brooms weren't enough to keep their kids safe from broken glass and debris on their block, these three men got ingenious with it.
www.inquirer.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is a great story. I love what these guys are doing. But the takeaway shouldn’t be that we need to enable more people to clean their streets.
Keeping our streets clean is the city’s job and one that Philly has failed at. This is a basic function of a city govt! www.inquirer.com/columnists/k...
Keeping our streets clean is the city’s job and one that Philly has failed at. This is a basic function of a city govt! www.inquirer.com/columnists/k...
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By capturing how taxable property wealth is shielded from redistributive taxation by local boundaries, we also identify specific jurisdictions—what we term “municipal tax havens” & “fiscal deserts”—where per capita property wealth is many times greater or less than their respective metro averages.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
By capturing how taxable property wealth is shielded from redistributive taxation by local boundaries, we also identify specific jurisdictions—what we term “municipal tax havens” & “fiscal deserts”—where per capita property wealth is many times greater or less than their respective metro averages.
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That is why our visualization is different from familiar maps showing neighborhood wealth, though they might initially look similar (particularly in highly-fragmented metro areas). This jurisdictional variation has never before been quantified at scale, or visualized in this way.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
That is why our visualization is different from familiar maps showing neighborhood wealth, though they might initially look similar (particularly in highly-fragmented metro areas). This jurisdictional variation has never before been quantified at scale, or visualized in this way.
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What is unique about our measure is that we aggregate wealth at the level of the municipality: the funding base for many critical public services. This allows us to capture the important difference between (1) a *wealthy neighborhood* in a larger municipality, and (2) a *wealthy municipality*
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What is unique about our measure is that we aggregate wealth at the level of the municipality: the funding base for many critical public services. This allows us to capture the important difference between (1) a *wealthy neighborhood* in a larger municipality, and (2) a *wealthy municipality*
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We find significant variation in tax base inequality across metropolitan areas in the US—substantially driven by local government law, as state/regional variation in jurisdictional fragmentation interacts with (by spatially overlapping onto) different levels of economic segregation:
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We find significant variation in tax base inequality across metropolitan areas in the US—substantially driven by local government law, as state/regional variation in jurisdictional fragmentation interacts with (by spatially overlapping onto) different levels of economic segregation:
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This reminded me of @jongeeting.bsky.social's article (with reference to @zajic.com) about how we should aim to have 2 million Philadelphians.
Jon's timeline for that was 2040, but since this long-term planning targets 2050, we should set the goal to 3 million!
www.phila3-0.org/2_million_ph...
Jon's timeline for that was 2040, but since this long-term planning targets 2050, we should set the goal to 3 million!
www.phila3-0.org/2_million_ph...
The Next Mayor Should Set a Goal for 2 Million Philadelphians
What the 2023 campaign needs is a dose of optimism about positive-sum growth
www.phila3-0.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This reminded me of @jongeeting.bsky.social's article (with reference to @zajic.com) about how we should aim to have 2 million Philadelphians.
Jon's timeline for that was 2040, but since this long-term planning targets 2050, we should set the goal to 3 million!
www.phila3-0.org/2_million_ph...
Jon's timeline for that was 2040, but since this long-term planning targets 2050, we should set the goal to 3 million!
www.phila3-0.org/2_million_ph...
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
A major problem for PA, and Philly in particular
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A major problem for PA, and Philly in particular
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A fun thing about single stair is that when you ask people defending the status quo on safety grounds to make a judgment call about whether the small buildings that would be allowed under the proposed reforms are more dangerous than the big ones we currently allow they get mad and refuse to answer.
A 100 unit per floor building at..let's say 800SF per unit = 80,000 NSF per floor
A 8 unit per floor at 800SF = 6,400 NSF per floor
Those are two fundamentally different building types, so I'm not sure they're apples to apples in any meaningful way
A 8 unit per floor at 800SF = 6,400 NSF per floor
Those are two fundamentally different building types, so I'm not sure they're apples to apples in any meaningful way
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
A fun thing about single stair is that when you ask people defending the status quo on safety grounds to make a judgment call about whether the small buildings that would be allowed under the proposed reforms are more dangerous than the big ones we currently allow they get mad and refuse to answer.
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In an effort to remain one of the worst Councilmembers, Cindy Bass is filing an appeal to prevent the replacement of this non-historic 1940s airlite into 13 new homes, which is even by-right legal under zoning. This is why we have a housing crisis Mayor Parker!
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In an effort to remain one of the worst Councilmembers, Cindy Bass is filing an appeal to prevent the replacement of this non-historic 1940s airlite into 13 new homes, which is even by-right legal under zoning. This is why we have a housing crisis Mayor Parker!
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
phila.legistar.com/LegislationD...
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New Marron survey of 400+ subway lines across the world from London to Paris to Shanghai finds just 6% still use two-person train operation, which would be required by a TWU-backed bill.
“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New Marron survey of 400+ subway lines across the world from London to Paris to Shanghai finds just 6% still use two-person train operation, which would be required by a TWU-backed bill.
“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
“It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Giving this Substack subscriber chat feature a try for the Philly City Council H.O.M.E. bond meeting this morning, on the BPN Substack. If you're watching the hearing in-person or online, join the chat: substack.com/chat/6096064
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November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Giving this Substack subscriber chat feature a try for the Philly City Council H.O.M.E. bond meeting this morning, on the BPN Substack. If you're watching the hearing in-person or online, join the chat: substack.com/chat/6096064
There were a lot of great YIMBY municipal and judicial wins in PA’s 2025 elections. Let me know what I missed! open.substack.com/pub/buildphi...
Pro-Housing Candidates Win Big in Pennsylvania's 2025 Elections
The bench of pro-housing political leaders keeps growing across PA
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November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
There were a lot of great YIMBY municipal and judicial wins in PA’s 2025 elections. Let me know what I missed! open.substack.com/pub/buildphi...
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Chief Justice Roberts is out. Says the major questions doctrine pretty clearly applies here; the tariffs simply can't survive that. Looks like five pretty clear votes against Trump.
And we STILL haven't gotten to Gorsuch...
And we STILL haven't gotten to Gorsuch...
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Chief Justice Roberts is out. Says the major questions doctrine pretty clearly applies here; the tariffs simply can't survive that. Looks like five pretty clear votes against Trump.
And we STILL haven't gotten to Gorsuch...
And we STILL haven't gotten to Gorsuch...
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I won!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I won!!
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Hannity spinning so hard right now. Claiming it’s a good sign that GOP candidates are not doing even worse than they are. (Which…don’t hold your breath Sean)
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hannity spinning so hard right now. Claiming it’s a good sign that GOP candidates are not doing even worse than they are. (Which…don’t hold your breath Sean)
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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It looks like this election is going to be a massive reality check for the people who have been insisting that "New Jersey is becoming a red state". That was always a load of crap.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It looks like this election is going to be a massive reality check for the people who have been insisting that "New Jersey is becoming a red state". That was always a load of crap.
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The New Jersey Republican state assembly minority looks like it is going to get absolutely decimated from this election. They are losing state assembly reps in the north and the south.
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The New Jersey Republican state assembly minority looks like it is going to get absolutely decimated from this election. They are losing state assembly reps in the north and the south.
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I thought there might be some interesting takes to be dug out of state assembly races in New Jersey tonight, but, not really. The story seems to be that Republicans are getting their clocks cleaned all over the state...just looks like a massive blue wave. www.nj.com/politics/202...
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I thought there might be some interesting takes to be dug out of state assembly races in New Jersey tonight, but, not really. The story seems to be that Republicans are getting their clocks cleaned all over the state...just looks like a massive blue wave. www.nj.com/politics/202...
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All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
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more the merrier! www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...
Biederman’s to open a second location in Rittenhouse
Lauren Biederman, who brought hand-sliced smoked fish to South Philly five years ago, is adding a shop at 20th and Spruce Streets.
www.inquirer.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
more the merrier! www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...
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Reminded of Philadelphia's partial open-minded attitude during the Zoning Code Commission reforms. Really don't want the Overton window closed here!
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reminded of Philadelphia's partial open-minded attitude during the Zoning Code Commission reforms. Really don't want the Overton window closed here!
Love the “just try stuff” attitude from Baltimore planning officials, who unanimously recommended @electryandorsey.bsky.social’s land use reform package www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/31/a...
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Love the “just try stuff” attitude from Baltimore planning officials, who unanimously recommended @electryandorsey.bsky.social’s land use reform package www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/31/a...
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perfect. no notes.
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
perfect. no notes.