Emily Dove
@egbd27
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2025 Sevvie Award Winner.
Austin, TX
Joined September 2017
Today I walked 11 miles and ate ramen noodles for dinner because I have no cutlery because I can’t prove to Amazon that I’m old enough to buy a butter knife.
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Congratulations to @BradBuckleyDVM and @TeamBettencourt on the passage of House Bill 8! 🏫 Their hard work (and that of their incredible teams) made this possible. I’m so grateful for Texans like them working to keep our future bright. ☀️
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Austin, TX's rental market has corrected hard. Asking rents are down 18% in the last three years. And now, rents are almost back to pre-pandemic levels. Apartment developers in Austin are taking it on the chin after overbuilding in this market for the last 5 years. The good
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Want to address high health care prices in Texas by improving our health care markets? Have legislative experience? Have a high tolerance for excessive dad jokes? Come work with me at @Texas2036. It's not terrible!
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Texas 2036 is looking to hire a Grants Coordinator in Austin. Help make Texas the best place to live and work. Apply today!
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Three bills designed to improve Texas' housing shortage and affordability have just been signed into law. Congratulations to @TeamBettencourt (SB 15), @SenBryanHughes (SB 840), and @AngeliaOrrForTX (HB 24) on these major wins for #txhousing — and to @egbd27 for representing
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YIMBYLAND always posts the best single stair concepts.
5) SB 2835 - "Single-Stair Buildings" - Legalizes 6-stories, 4-units/floor, in TX state building code - Cities that adopt standard amendments to state building code would by-default legalize 6-story single-stair apartments - Paves way for streamlined adoption by cities
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Visited SF for the first time in many years last weekend, and I found it disappointing that the home of so much innovation and creativity appears to be totally fine that their most populous neighborhood looks like this. Median sale price: $1.5 million.
The fact that Cincinnati, Hartford and St. Louis are all building more dense housing than SF is an astounding indictment of a supposed world-class city.
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You love to see it.
November 2024: 7 of the nation's 50 largest metro area housing markets (14%) had falling year-over-year home prices February 2025: 12 of 50 (24%) April 2024: 20 of 50 (40%) May 2025: 22 of 50 (44%) June 2025: 25 of 50 (50%) Chart via @ResidentialClub
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My best friend is in the process of buying a home in Connecticut. Here's what you can get for half a million dollars in the area she's looking.
Gov. Lamont says he will *veto* HB 5002, the broad housing bill proponents say would boost affordable housing in the state. He says he hopes to see an amended version in a special session this fall. “Veto to me means we can do a lot better.”
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A new study from the @RiceKinderInst says that Houston is becoming more expensive, @TomAbrahams13 reports for @abc13houston. “We’re getting really close to a time when young Texas families will be unable to purchase a home,” says @egbd27. #txhousing
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"We're getting really close to a time when young Texas families will be unable to purchase a home," a policy advisor said. Is Houston as affordable as it once was? The answer seems to be mixed.
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🏠 Next Tuesday, @egbd27 joins "Housing and the 89th Legislative Session," a virtual panel covering what bills passed and their projected impact on our #txhousing landscape. The event will be livestreamed on all @dallashousingco's social media channels! #txlege
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There's a joke in here somewhere that if you think our land is being pilfered to build housing then I've got half of Western Colorado to sell you. A truly ghoulish proposal.
.@BasedMikeLee is secretly trying to sell 3 MILLION acres of America’s public land for development. And it includes some of my favorite places, specifically ones in the pictures below. Americans across the political spectrum are **overwhelmingly** against the sale of our beauty
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🚨It's STAAR results day here in Texas.🚨 Here are the key takeaways 🧵🧵🧵
Texas Education Agency Releases Spring 2025 STAAR® Results for Grades 3–8 PRESS RELEASE: https://t.co/uVCOgJp7Tq
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Outstanding #txwater news: SB 7 is headed to Governor Abbott’s desk! Congratulations to Senator @electcharles and Rep. @CodyforTexas for this historic achievement. Future generations of Texans will benefit and prosper from their hard work. Thank you! #txlege
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More and better housing for Texans is on the way. Working together with House author Rep. @JamesTalarico, today we passed my Senate Bill 2835, clearing away old codes and outdated modes, allowing for the construction of small-footprint apartment buildings with new materials and
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Big housing news in Texas! SB 2835, a statewide framework to develop single stair housing, is on its way to the Governor's desk. Huge thanks to @NathanForTexas and @jamestalarico for championing this bill through the process.
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