◥◤Kriston Capps
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Writer and editor for @CityLab . Texan. I like housing and buildings and art and chili. 📸: @kriston_capps 💌: kriston.capps @gmail .com
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This is a story about Monarch, the fastest growing landlord in the Midwest.
@sarahsholder
and I tracked how Monarch uses evictions to squeeze tenants and spike rents — "popping the clutch," as Monarch's CEO puts it — even when evictions were banned.
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As of 9:30 tonight, D.C. police had made 52 arrests.
On June 1, during BLM protests following George Floyd's death, D.C. police made 289 arrests.
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Justice Elena Kagan: "For a homeless person who has no place to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public."
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New York State gerrymandered a map to qualify Hudson Yards for $1.6 billion in financing meant for low-income areas—by threading it to public housing in Harlem. (
@CityLab
obtained the map info through FOIA.)
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Easy-to-overlook provision in
@AOC
and
@SenSanders
's GND for public housing: It would repeal the Faircloth Amendment, which caps the number of public housing units at the level that existed in 1999.
That's right. Building new public housing is illegal.
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This latest thing, where Republicans refuse to get tested for coronavirus so they can continue to participate in debates or rallies or hearings, is so fundamentally indecent.
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My first job an interview, an editor told me, “You seem nice, but kids from state school don’t get this job.”
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“Party in the USA”! This plaza is Bottomless Mimosa Brunch Square
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Yglesias worked with researchers at Columbia to model the impact of Biden's universal housing vouchers. The program would cut the poverty rate by 22% and cut child poverty by 34% — and the Senate could pass it through budget reconciliation. That's huge!
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NEW: A House investigation into Invitation Homes and three other major corporate landlords found that the companies filed evictions against nearly 15,000 residents while the federal moratorium was in place — three times the number previously known.
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Breaking news: The Biden administration is introducing a rule that will require pretty much every city, county and state to draw up an "equity plan" for fair housing, or risk losing federal funding.
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After Katrina, Mexico sent the U.S. a convoy of 50 army trucks w/ food & aid plus a navy ship with search vehicles.
With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.
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This listing costs $2900 per month. For that to be affordable a family would need to earn $150K per year.
That's 3x higher than the median household income for Cincy: $45K.
Only two earners in the 75th percentile for Cincy incomes could afford this
This 2-bed condo in Cincy is affordable for a family making <$100,000.
It's close to a grocery, parks, pro sports, symphony.
But people who want this life are afraid to move from the high-cost cities where it's impossible.
It's not a housing crisis, it's a migration crisis.
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People are asking good questions about
@CityLab
. One point folks are missing:
@TheAtlantic
laid off the entire staff this week.
Some folks here hope to get jobs with the new owners. But most staffers will need other jobs. Because we all just got laid off.
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Spotted by a friend at the county fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
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This is the U.S. Courthouse in Austin, Texas, designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, a husband-and-wife firm based in Atlanta. Maybe you like it—maybe you hate it.
The White House proposal to ban modernist federal buildings mentions it by name.
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A senior VP for The Siegel Group emailed managers in San Antonio a list of tactics to harass a tenant:
— Tow her car
— Steal her pets
— Swap her AC unit w/ a broken unit
— Knock on her door “at least twice a night"
— Call CPS on her (!) if she has kids
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My mom won an essay contest (😁) and earned two free puppies (😀) who live in Norfolk, Virginia (🙂) and needs me to pick them up (😐) and bring them to her in Texas (😑).
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A new conspiracy is taking hold among Trump supporters that Barack Obama took a citizenship question off the census. It’s a deliberate falsehood being promoted by Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Kirk, and others in rightwing echo chambers.
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Hudson Yards likely absorbed an entire year's worth of financing available through the EB-5 cash-for-visas program—even though it's meant for rural areas and distressed urban communities.
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It's professional malpractice to write about rent control in 2023 and not talk about St. Paul, where developers walked away, permits plummeted and the policy had to be partially rolled back
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Kevin Spacey leaning into the persona of a fictional character he no longer plays as a defense strategy against the very real crimes he is accused of committing is levels in postmodernism.
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Here's the screengrab of Roger Stone admitting the Trump campaign colluded with Asange and Wikileaks (I know, real stunner)
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I talked with Trump supporters during the Capitol Riot who told me stone-faced that there was no violence as flash grenades were going off behind me
Absolutely wild lies. We all saw it with our own eyes!
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On Sunday a driver hit the bicycle I was riding while I was standing still at a stopped light because he thought I made him miss the light. I can't stop thinking about it. He hit me, got out of his car and swore at me then drove off.
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The guy who saves the day deserves the Airport Infrastructure Medal of Freedom
Crazy event at ORD. Heads up safety move by a ramp worker!
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After spending a week in Paris on foot I can tell you that not only is it totally fine to be a pedestrian in Paris, it is much much safer than walking around New York or D.C.
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Omarosa
so who's gonna play Omarosa in "dragged", the straight to netflix movie the streets demand
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Hurricane Harvey recovery funds are subject to *huge* racial disparities.
In Taylor Landing, a tiny white affluent Texas town, housing buyout aid comes to $60,000 per resident.
In Beaumont, a large poor majority-minority city, that level is $40.
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A new study on Obamacare finds that access to health insurance subsidies leads to a *25 percent decline* in late housing payments:
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "Where are they supposed to sleep? Are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping?"
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You can see the precise moment when the CEO of Walmart realized he was going to shake the president's hand and get the 'rona
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The $2.9 billion Red Line that Larry Hogan canceled in Baltimore is back on. Maryland's new governor Wes Moore tells me he'll get it approved and built during his term:
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is now speaking at the Senate filibuster and—refreshingly—she is talking about
#Pride
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Like, it can't be unrelated that Hobby Lobby is smuggling ancient cuneiform artifacts and building a Bible Museum, right?
The case is actually against Hobby Lobby (yes, that one). Some background on the museum its owners are building:
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Hurricane Harvey recovery in Texas was racist.
Tiny white towns received $1+ million in relocation funds—meaning $40–60,000 per affected resident.
Port Arthur and Beaumont, with large Black populations, got little more—meaning $40–80 per resident.
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Factory-built homes accounted for an astonishing 60% of all new single-family houses in the early 1970s. Then the traditional "stick-built" homebuilders struck back, squeezing manufactured homes with regulations.
Biden wants housing factories back online:
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"We have to get rid of this notion of not-in-my-back-yard." —HUD Secretary-designate Marcia Fudge
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When you put it like that it sounds kinda bad
Two men who have represented to Congress that they are members of the President’s legal team were arrested last night while apparently trying to flee the country and charged in an alleged conspiracy to use foreign money to influence US politics.
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A first-ever federal study on homeless encampments found last year that sweeps are both expensive and counter-productive. Clearing camps mostly shuffles people from one camp to the next:
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During a meeting with a foreign head of state, Trump accuses Obama of committing a felony in office. Does this warrant censure?
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An archaeological criminologist on Hobby Lobby's artifact smuggling:
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Facebook allows housing advertisers to exclude users based on hundreds of thousands of data points, from "moms of grade school kids” to "hijab fashion" to "service animals"—there's even a mapping tool for redlining neighborhoods.
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I am once again asking you to pay in small bills if you are able.
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Seeing military equipment roll into D.C. under the cover of curfew, watching unidentified soldiers set up on city corners, these images will stay with me forever. Six weeks later, it’s happening in another city.
My friend just sent me this pic that’s across the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Wonder what it’s for.
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wow. whoo boy that is something.
Daily News: Trump picks his son's wedding planner, who has no housing experience, to run NY federal housing programs
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City Paper is wholly committed to the narrative that traffic fines are worse for Black residents than the traffic crashes that disproportionately kill them
Black residents in D.C. are disproportionately impacted by traffic fines, with fewer opportunities to build wealth that would help them pay off debts. Plans to increase traffic cameras could exacerbate this disparity, according to a report from Tzedek DC.
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The 2020 Census is on track to undercount black and Hispanic populations nationwide and *overcount* populations in mostly white red states:
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Aqua Man’s scrunchie would be a great bit for the movies.
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Scoop: Maryland is the next state that will weigh a statewide law to repeal local bans on housing density. Upzoning has arrived on the East Coast:
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This is interesting: Hudson Yards is returning more to the city than projected. A lot more, like $200–300 million more.
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My entire litmus on how long you've lived in D.C. is what you know about this picture 👀
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The statue is cringe. Even in its own time it was deemed paternalistic. Still, its debut in 1876 drew a crowd of 25,000 people. Frederick Douglass delivered the keynote. The big storyline at the time was about how it was paid for entirely by formerly enslaved people — a big deal.
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Harriet Hosmer’s design for the Emancipation Memorial was progressive! This design comes close to expressing the idea that the slaves freed the slaves — by putting enslaved people on pedestals beside Lincoln. This would look dope in the park
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They stored rifle rounds in the D.C. Armory to be used to fire upon D.C. residents. That is the argument for statehood now.
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The Times claims its findings are "more complex than what was portrayed by either side of the political battle" — but actually, the results are much simpler. After an exhaustive search, the Times identified one clinic patient who detransitioned; she doesn't regret her treatment.
Weird how YET ANOTHER concern-trolling feature story can't find any evidence of kids being rushed into transition but ONCE AGAIN implies that they are everywhere and just about to emerge from the shadows.
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A map of protests against police brutality since George Floyd's death.
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Happy Jan. 6 to all Whataboutists who celebrate!
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Testifying before the Senate,
@SecFudge
just got specific about YIMBY goals in the American Jobs Plan, naming "minimum lot size" and "mandatory parking requirements" as zoning barriers that lock people out of neighborhoods with greater opportunity.
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Really the best suggestion I have for New Yorkers who hate D.C. is to move to New York instead of trying to shame another city for not being New York
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Ever wonder what the Lincoln Memorial would look like if you replaced President Abraham with a hissing snapping length of whipping tube? The Venice Biennale has you covered!
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Y’all, I’m joining the
@CityLab
team at Bloomberg News. New year, new job, let’s get after it.
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Ninety percent of Republicans approve of Trump's first two weeks as president. I don't know y'all.
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Architectural historians and preservationists explained to me how a stone cathedral catches on fire—and why Gothic architecture can withstand an inferno:
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A Trump supporters just urinated on the grounds of the Capitol. Loud flash grenades exploding nearby. Someone is playing “One Love” and the crowd is cheering “USA!”
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Nightmare: You lose your job when the pandemic shuts everything down. The federal government says you won't be evicted. But an exec for the Las Vegas firm that owns your San Antonio apartment wants you out. So he tells a local manager to report you to CPS.
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The magazine even ran the test story I submitted, *and* they also didn’t pay me, because it was a trial. That was... 13 years ago? My first magazine feature. How rude!
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The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design — which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by black Civil War soldiers — but the act of commemoration here doesn't deserve to be torched.
BREAKING: DC Police are lining up at Lincoln Park.
A protest called “Shut Down The Capitol” is scheduled for 7pm.
I reported about the statue 6 days ago. Residents say they want to see changes because it depicts Lincoln standing over a freed slave. LINK👇
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A "midnight rule" issued by the Obama administration that will reform the cash-for-visas program may go into effect as soon as this month. Conservatives like
@GroverNorquist
want to preserve EB-5 mostly as it is. So does
@chuckschumer
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This language is outrageous. This isn’t a war against the unvaccinated. It’s a policy
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Don't wait — close Potomac Yard Station today
If Metro doesn't get more state funding:
• 10 rail stations close
• 54% of bus routes (67 of 135) eliminated
• 30% of bus routes (41/135) reduced
• Rail service ends at 10pm & headways lengthen significantly
• 20% fare increase
• 2,286 layoffs
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Zero arrests during demonstrations between Wednesday and Sunday in the District of Columbia. Thousands of revelers, no trouble.
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As
@nhannahjones
writes, the GOP’s long war against USPS targets hundreds of thousands of Black workers. Trump might be focused on Jeff Bezos and the November election but USPS is a huge driver of the Black middle class and that can’t be lost on the GOP:
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This is terrifically unpersuasive. It takes 16 paragraphs to concede the point that yes, exclusionary zoning is based in racist policy and should be abolished. But the market vibes are bad or something?
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If the White House will lie about something so insignificant, so brazenly, our democracy is compromised.
Spicer: "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe."
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This
@DailyCaller
rewrite of my
@CityLab
story is ✨misleading.✨
Dems in Virginia do not seek to ban single-family housing. This bill would repeal a ban on duplexes—that’s it.
Nobody said the suburbs are racist. Zoning is an exclusionary tool that contributes to segregation.
Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment
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During the confusion of the Freddie Gray uprising, with cars burning and armored police everywhere, Cummings arrived and calmed the situation visibly just by his presence.
This is a sad day for Baltimore and our nation
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If the market prefers single family homes then why does the government have to mandate them?
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: "All humans engage in the act in question: sleeping. And yet the ordinance operates to penalize only certain individuals, those who have no choice but to do that act in public."
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@CityLab
@TheAtlantic
It's so encouraging to see that readers are invested in
@CityLab
's fate. Staffers who make it happen also need support. And assignments, and leads!
As Townes sings, "Pancho needs your prayers, it's true; but save a few for Lefty, too."
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Robin Bell is leading D.C.'s art protests through light projections. Here are some others:
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First as tragedy, then as farce, the historic preservation movement comes full circle with an honest-to-goodness effort to save NYC's most notorious landmark — dank, dark, dim, dismal, depressing, dangerous Penn Station:
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These are breathtaking lies.
@PressSec
: tear gas wasn't used, protestors were warned to disperse 3X, and WH "received intelligence that there were calls for violence against police."
She adds that caches "of glass bottles baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the streets."
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