James Anderson

Lead for Bloomberg Philanthropies' global public sector innovation programs | dad of twins | swimmer | Brooklyn | 🏳️‍🌈

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The Bloomberg Harvard program has been training mayors for a decade. But it took until tonight for one of our alumni to make it to the governor’s office.

Congratulations to Georgia’s governor-elect @KeishaBottoms, Class of 2018!

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“We’re witnessing the most profound shift in housing federalism since the 1930s.”

So how do we turn local housing innovation into national progress? @Bruce_Katz, Colin Higgins, & A.J. Herrmann explain how — and where @BloombergDotOrg’s work comes in.

https://t.co/9Ha51GteoI

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There’s an art—and a science—to helping good ideas spread between cities.

Here’s a deep dive into 3 housing breakthroughs, and how we’re helping 30 more cities adapt them to build more homes, faster.

Great piece by @jaredbrey in @GOVERNING:
https://t.co/augqmuNtyW

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From speeding up permits to getting stalled projects moving, we're seeing promising local solutions to address the housing shortage. @MikeBloomberg makes
the case for giving more local governments the funding and expertise to put innovative approaches to work.
https://t.co/xroMicX82s

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For much of the 20 years before Covid, 6 in 10 Americans rated the CDC’s job good or excellent. By 2021, just 40% did. It never recovered.

You can blame this administration for gutting the CDC. But the ground was already prepared.

Institutions become dismantleable before they are dismantled. https://t.co/uUfwIkJxt8

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Now these are the questions you ask if you want to do something on food access at urban scale.

From today's NYT piece on Anthony Shorris: https://t.co/r34ouivysJ

[Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson]

AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans. -- @mustafasuleyman
https://t.co/nhg2KEabOo

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"Whoever wins AI, wins” is almost the perfect slogan for the collective-action trap: if everyone believes it, nobody can afford to slow down. Even if everyone would be safer if everyone slowed down.
https://t.co/Od7KydM8J6

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Gotta get your delivery team in place, Mr. Mayor. https://t.co/gxs2CysHgL

[Nicole @nicolegelinas]

The Cross-Bronx is, of course, everyone's favorite example of this, but the city and state can take the Cross-Bronx down starting today if they want to. Moses is dead. He can't stop you.

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True or false: city leadership is now the most important job in the world.

[Brandon M. Scott @MayorBMScott]

For years, the naysayers have counted Baltimore out. But the numbers across the board are telling a different story.

At our peak, Baltimore had 16,000 vacant properties citywide. Through hard work and the right investments, we’ve brought that number down to fewer than 12,000. Eliminating 1 in 4 vacant properties across our city.

And we’ve reduced homicides and nonfatal shootings to the lowest levels our city has seen in 50 years.

The progress our city is seeing is real. And is proof of what happens when we commit to doing things differently, despite what others may say. While we still have work to do, I am proud of how far our city has come.

[Patti Harris @PattiHarris]

City leaders have an incredible opportunity to make a difference in people’s everyday lives.

I was glad to welcome @BloombergDotOrg board members Admiral Mike Mullen and Emma Bloomberg, Founder & CEO of Murmuration, to the @BHcityleaders classroom, where they shared learnings from their leadership journeys with our tenth class of senior officials.

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A hallmark of capable government is its ability to mobilize resources beyond the public sector in pursuit of public goals. Public-private collaboration isn't the opposite of state capacity. Done well, it's one expression of it.

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This is a mischaracterization. The Mayor's Fund is designed to bring philanthropic resources to public priorities. Its advisory board has historically helped mobilize those resources—not determine public spending. Remaking the board is the mayor's prerogative. Treating public-private collaboration as evidence of capture may be red meat for the base, but it's a poor theory of urban governance.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

One of the beautiful things about Mamdani’s renewal of NYC government is that it shows how deeply business interests are usually baked into state capacity.
Why should private equity, banks and real estate interests advise a mayor on what to spend?

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For centuries, Americans have argued about what government should do. Michael R. Bloomberg has instead bet on what it takes.

https://t.co/G4RTDty2wG