Jessica A.S. Letaw

Affordability, housing, building power, changing the world, hbu? Award-winning @annarborafpod cohost. I hug buildings. ♀️,✊🏼, 🌈,🌱, #amquerying. She/her.

[Jessica A.S. Letaw @jessicaletaw]

Today is the last day of voting! Please vote if you haven't! https://t.co/IInRKFp5sM

My session is about how even - and especially - ordinary people can apply movement organizing principles to our housing problems of segregation, scarcity, and unaffordability.

#SXSW2024

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Their three reasons are literally the reasons I’m attending. 😂 but I’m also so excited to get deep under the hood of operationalizing equity and meeting other folks doing exciting and reparative work.

See you soon, #JustFutureSummit.

[Greenlining @Greenlining]

We’re 3 days from the #JustFutureSummit 🎉. Here are 3 reasons you should attend:
🎤@wkamaubell
🎤@aliciagarza
🎤@DoloresHuerta
Hear from these speakers, along with many other leading experts on the state of race in this country. Get your ticket today! https://t.co/9M07TsP5Ok

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"Criticism can, and perhaps should, actively participate in the grander project of radical, reparative world-building, while also holding powerful actors in...city-making accountable for lackluster justice initiatives."

@AnjulieRao makes revolution irresistible.

[oscar perry abello @oscarthinks]

Yet more 🔥🔥🔥 from one of my favs, ⁦@AnjulieRao⁩:

“No longer is this [merely] a question of who has nicer urban amenities; “who gets what” is a tired trope.”

Process process process, including starting vantage point https://t.co/yn1lToHevf

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oh and @jenny_schuetz and @jahorne of course!

[Jessica A.S. Letaw @jessicaletaw]

Today is the last day of voting! Please vote if you haven't! https://t.co/IInRKFp5sM

My session is about how even - and especially - ordinary people can apply movement organizing principles to our housing problems of segregation, scarcity, and unaffordability.

#SXSW2024

[Jessica A.S. Letaw @jessicaletaw]

Tagging in folks I hope will vote, since you believe in GOTV/good urbanism/housing for all: @Alex_Zittleman, @tashcoug, @dankessler, @ViolinMonster, @jeremy_levine, @kaiuwebergmann, @VonBurkhardt, @Housing_Wiki, @EJinAction, @DanHogman, @mgoblog ...

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Tagging in more folks I hope will vote, since you believe in GOTV/good urbanism/housing for all: @howtoadu, @walkabilityfan, @designtorestore, @probably_margot, @mcmansionhell, @blackurbanist, @skibison, @mar_de_palabras, @JustineClark, @JerusalemDemsas, @AdamConover.

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Last year I got within ONE SPOT of being selected to go. Help me get over the finish line!

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#HousingTwitter #HousingCrisis

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I've proposed a talk on movement organizing + housing for #SXSW2024. Vote for me! Spread the word! https://t.co/IInRKFp5sM

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I think this was the pod episode where I learned the most. Appreciation to @curiousliz and @mollyali for letting me ask All The Questions.

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Hey @Delta, your PHL gate agent for flight 1607 today could use some accessibility training. Playing power games with boarding access is not cool.

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This is a large community, and there’s been a lot of momentum here behind work that matters. But it’s time to shift energy.

Because I care about relationships and how work gets done in the offlines, I’ll be switching my short-form energy to Bluesky for now.

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@FlemingPaulJ

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I keep a spreadsheet to help me remember what the heck I'm doing while I #AmQuerying, including noting who might feel really warm about the book I'm proposing.

I don't wanna jinx it, but this person just requested additional materials...

#AmWriting
#AmDancing a little

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Attending @ClimateInnov8's session on Participatory Policy Development...I feel like I've learned more before the first break than I have in a minute.

#CommunityLedPlanning

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@akgood I don't know what the sets of rules are about concrete curbs but I can tell from how we're installing them in A2 that they're less restrictive. So, yes, it'd be great to move to those instead of the traffic equivalent of this.

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@akgood To some extent it's a state problem. MDOT limits the types of barricades cities are allowed to install. Actual bollards, aka something that will hurt a car before a person outside of one, are prohibited in many cases.

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@sstrudeau Timely affirmation from the NYT piece this morning on Vienna as a renter’s paradise.

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@sstrudeau Incentivize affordability by subsidizing some construction costs if ADU is rented at substantial affordability for X years, usually 15. Santa Cruz does. It isn’t a huge influx of units but it adds to the city’s affordable housing stock and income-integrated neighborhoods.

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@sstrudeau @ginny_rogers These are very modest proposals.