Vera Titunik
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Deputy editor, Headway @nytimes. Previous lives: WIRED and https://t.co/sW2TjZjMGB. Send pitches to: [email protected]
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Joined September 2009
A most excellent mystery from @DaveADenison involving oats, memory, and a cranky baker in gym shorts and brown socks.
thebaffler.com
The recipe of the famed Guerrilla Cookie may be lost forever. But the legacy of its idealistic and eccentric creator lives on in unlikely ways.
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Deeply compassionate, clear-eyed story by https://t.co/dg5s900380. Please read it.
newyorker.com
At a supportive-housing facility, chronically unhoused New Yorkers get a new lease on life, with a gym, a computer room—and on-site mental-health and medical services.
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Read this for @ConorDougherty 's deft explanation of why the housing shortage won't be solved by market forces alone. And also to meet Joyce Siegel, activist extraordinaire.
nytimes.com
Montgomery County, Md., like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. So it started acting like a benevolent real estate investor.
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I wrote a story about how a Montgomery County Maryland has for decades been building public housing under another name. It's a clever use of public money and beats private equity at their own game. Read on:
nytimes.com
Montgomery County, Md., like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. So it started acting like a benevolent real estate investor.
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A story about change and growth — both personal and within institutions — beautifully told by @issielapowsky and with evocative pictures by Abdul Kircher. And it's free to read.
nytimes.com
At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other jurisdiction.
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To prevent evictions, Philadelphia has tried to get landlords and tenants talking in the hopes of satisfy ing both. @AidanGardiner looks at how thousands of people were kept in their homes.
nytimes.com
A lockdown-era program that gets landlords talking to tenants has had notable success for both. Can it continue?
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Super clear and useful analysis of the “kludge” and what we lose when cities are inflexible by @emilymbadger
nytimes.com
Piles of regulations, or “kludge,” and a culture of “no” are limiting the ability to turn building blocks into something new.
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“Prigozhin is a deeply unpleasant, even revolting, character, but he is undeniably a character.” @yaffaesque makes some sense of the past few days. Really worth reading.
newyorker.com
For a decade, the Russian President outsourced his military ambitions to the mercenary force and its pugnacious leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin—then they turned against him.
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Very excited that @VLuck who knows the history of Tulsa better than anyone, wrote this
nytimes.com
W.E.B. Du Bois saw the key to Black prosperity in places like Tulsa, where Black residents patronized Black stores. Even today it serves as a model.
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It took a big initial investment from government but now Vienna’s social housing is self sustaining. And most important, people have stability and commitment to where they live. Amazing story by @francescamari
nytimes.com
Worldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right?
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"The toll in San Diego had increased by nearly 10 times in the last decade, from 64 homeless deaths in 2014 to nearly 600 investigated by the medical examiner’s office in the last year." Such a powerful @elisaslow story on the effort to keep one man alive.
nytimes.com
As a record number of people die on America’s streets, Abdul Curry fights to stay alive.
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“If they’re hungry, we give them food. If they’re cold, we give them a sweatshirt.” Fantastic story by @andylocal
nytimes.com
Half a year with the street counselors who dispense free sneakers, monthly injections and gentle encouragement to some of the city’s most vulnerable and volatile residents.
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“I contemplate, for the millionth time, etched atoms. It’s almost too much: the idea of tunneling down into a cluster of atoms and finding art there. “ @page88 writes about chips like no one else
wired.com
As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
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Great series on the places where young people find comfort and community.
nytimes.com
The band kids of Ravenna High in Ohio dream of leaving their “nothing town,” but fear what that means they may have to leave behind.
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"New York’s recovery depends on fortifying, not diminishing, tent-poles like parks, streets and libraries." @kimmelman
nytimes.com
Facing a giant budget deficit, Mayor Eric Adams proposed cuts to New York libraries. But they play an outsize role in the city, offering services and safety.
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“People end up on the street because they lose their jobs or their rent goes up. Their mental health deteriorates, and they start taking drugs to cope.” Great piece by @JInterlandi
nytimes.com
The case for harm reduction.
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Getting a housing voucher is a huge challenge. But it's only the first step. Terrific story by @corinaknoll
nytimes.com
As the housing crisis deepens in Los Angeles County, one young woman learns that searching for a place of her own is more difficult than ever.
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If you haven't already, please read this @yaffaesque story. A city is retaken, but the “disgust, contempt, the desire of your neighbor” remains.
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