community-developed, open, publicly-written book exploring radical & low-cost "bottom-up" housing strategies, from camps to villages to co-ops. by @tmccormick
At the top of many researchers' minds is the impact the #COVID19 pandemic has had on the housing market. To comment on this, Dr. @GaryDeanPainter provided insight on @NPR's @Marketplace in, "Foreclosures are at a record low…for now." Take a listen: https://t.co/rcCXuEunzF
@JFLenhard@MaxCamCentre@DeirdreMcClosk "Ideas are the dark matter of history."
- Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics, 2021.
I have to wonder, if/how in 2021 we can achieve better, more human & equitable #bookonomics & idea dissemination than $30 for 114 page book, @gkiely@UChicagoPress.
https://t.co/shrqRgzAdj
@tmccormick@ezraklein@jformanjr @cshea4 @MikeMadden@AdamBKushner thanks Tim! I realize now that sentence lacks nuance--I've heard good things about villages in the Pacific Northwest, so it's unfair to make a direct analogy to LA's (barely) tolerated camps. More the general point of another city respecting rights but under-investing
@NeilMGong@ezraklein@jformanjr thanks for good article. One Q, which sites in SEA & LA do you mean when you note"Seattle’s city-sanctioned homeless villages resemble those in LA" as cases of '#tolerantcontainment'? (links to [Finkes 2019] on Seattle https://t.co/rmVihjpsG1) c/@cshea4 @MikeMadden@AdamBKushner
I call this "tolerant containment": the selective decriminalization and spatially specific acceptance of so-called deviance.
This tolerance may look like progress, but without resources, it can descend into abandonment.
https://t.co/wL3EJVVB4K
Police and prison abolitionists envision a world where punitive institutions are eventually replaced with robust community services and "root cause" solutions.
But what if we get the defunding and decriminalization, but not the reinvestment?
CA might be headed down this path.
Why do Californians have the right to be homeless, but not the right to housing? To possess drugs, but not to rehab?
In @washingtonpost, I discuss the lessons of CA's ugly political compromise between left civil liberties + right wing fiscal policy
https://t.co/h29v8Yau7u
@christyconklin@kiangoh@mitpress@thenewpress looks very interesting, if perhaps saddening or elegaic. My current main (book) project might plausibly be called, if I might riff on it, The Atlas of Emerging Places: Our Margins and Potentials. (actual working title, @VillageBuildngs). c/ @mattkahn1966