Katherine Levine Einstein
@katherineeinst
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Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University | local politics, race and public policy, housing | https://t.co/H1BHyd7bmu
Boston, MA
Joined January 2015
Excited that @davidmglick @MaxwellBPalmer and my book Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis comes out November 2019! @CUP_PoliSci (1/3) https://t.co/8bgPgH5av2
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Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Neighborhood Defenders
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🥳New paper! "Do Housing Supply Skeptics Learn?"🎆 Yessir, they do! And when they do, they become *much* more supportive of market-rate housing development. 1/🧵 https://t.co/MPjIwXuqyg
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Local offices–like city councilors, mayors, and county legislators–are the most common elected offices in the US. But what determines local election outcomes and what are the consequences of these elections? Our paper out today should help answer those Qs:
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Scientific Data - American local government elections database
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Lead article of @BostonGlobeMag today: For decades, suburbs of Boston have been zoning children out of new apartment buildings. https://t.co/mzlgCimKNU
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Today our team, supported by @RockefellerFdn, released the final set of findings from the 2022 #MeninoSurvey, the only nationally representative survey of American mayors. Read about mayors’ views on key economic and public health + safety challenges: https://t.co/fDOBPAgu0F 🧵⤵️
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🚨📄 out now in @nature @ScientificData with @tylersimko: https://t.co/R5wDlCyUUM We introduce LocalView: a comprehensive dataset of over 100,000 real-time U.S. local government public meeting videos from 1,000+ localities (and counting). 🧵 1/5
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Ready to measure density in your neighborhood? We’re excited to announce the official release of #Residensity, our new site for measuring & exploring residential density & housing type anywhere in MA! Now available to everyone.🏡📊🥳🎉 https://t.co/jP0cf2LGwK 1/ @KimDriscollMA
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Hopefully, this will come with strong federal incentives to both state and local governments to reform their zoning to allow for more multifamily housing and greater housing density--policies that will allow residents at a variety of income levels to find housing. 6/
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In contrast, the Biden Administration's Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness connects homelessness, the local housing supply, and restrictive land use and zoning. 5/
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A nationally representative survey of mayors (led by @BUonCities) reveals that only 32% of mayors see zoning and land use regulations as a significant obstacle to addressing homelessness. 4/
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Yet, cities rarely link local zoning/land use with homelessness. Only 54% of the nation's 100 largest cities even have homeless plans. Of those cities, only 30% mention zoning or land use. 3/
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Land use and zoning are arguably the most powerful policy tools cities wield against homelessness. They shape housing supply (and thus housing costs), as well as the siting of a variety of services that benefit unhoused people, like drug treatment facilities and shelters. 2/
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In a new policy brief supported by @cmtysolutions , @CharleyWillison and I analyze whether cities connect homelessness with their local land use/zoning policies. 1/ https://t.co/IIvwwPPSNd
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Today our team, supported by @RockefellerFdn, released the first findings from the 2022 #MeninoSurvey, the only nationally representative survey of American mayors. Read how mayors are addressing the #ClimateCrisis in their cities: https://t.co/a0YOYJbJD4 🧵⬇️
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The state government in Massachusetts isn't tracking any of this systemically. We were able to describe the size and restrictions on subsidized units thanks to data from @housingnav_ma. /5
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As @amydain points out, the discretionary process by which most suburbs produce multifamily housing is a big part of the problem. We identified multiple community meetings where residents worried about new children moving in, and the pressures they would place on schools. /4
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Suburbs also effectively exclude low-income families by making the overwhelming majority of their subsidized units studios or one bedroom. /3
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In suburbs like Winchester and Winthrop, more than 75% of subsidized units are age restricted. /2
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This is an especially big problem for subsidized housing. In this year's @bostonfdn Housing Report Card, @MaxwellBPalmer and I found that, in some Boston suburbs, virtually all of the subsidized housing is restricted to seniors. /1
This is a thread about ongoing discrimination in housing policy, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, specifically its protections for families with children. The suburbs of Boston systematically limit development of apartments and condos for families with children. /2
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We're grateful for the partnership of @BosIndicators and @bostonfdn, and @housingnav_ma for sharing their amazing data (and driving efforts towards more centralized information about subsidized housing). (8/8)
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We need a more centralized state approach to ensure: (1) better (and fair!) access to information about subsidized housing, and (2) effective monitoring of fair housing practices (7/ ).
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