Aaron Carr

Dogs, data, and new inventions. Founder and Executive Director of @housingrightsUS. Personal account/opinions my own.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

Today we are announcing one of the largest housing discrimination lawsuits in US history against 124 real estate companies and brokers for discriminating against low-income families with housing vouchers – and we got it all on recording.

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[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

series 1-0.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

WOOP

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

Are you not ENTERTAINED

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - Ohio poll

Senate
🔵 Brown 53%
🔴 Husted 45%

Governor
🔵 Acton 50%
🔴 Ramaswamy 49%

Fox #B - RV - 6/1

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

Like what could go wrong?

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

“A Polymarket rep tells AP they've cut ties with Santos in response to the insider trading probe.”

The fact that Polymarket ever had ties to Santos in the first place tells you everything you need to know about Polymarket.

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

New: As @GeorgeSantos was allegedly betting against his own SOTU attendance, he was also collecting a paycheck from Polymarket to promote their brand.

A Polymarket rep tells AP they've cut ties with Santos in response to the insider trading probe.

https://t.co/PPmNYjyp41

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

@aussieflya “Even according to the city it would accelerate less than 100k homes which is widely insufficient...”

Right, which is why I called it imperfect and incremental, albeit a citywide foundation to build upon.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

A rezoning I opposed and was wrong about

“As for gentrification, the number of seniors soared by 87%, the number of Hispanic New Yorkers grew by 17% and the number of Black New Yorkers by 11% even as Brooklyn experienced a large decline of Black residents. “

[Greg David @thecity @GregDavidonNY]

More Housing, No Gentrification: How Rezoning Gave East New York a New Start. A look at the first major de Blasio Administration rezoning 10 years later @ https://t.co/iSEWOmwQIa

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

@aussieflya City of Yes (which Zohran supported) was largely an imperfect, incremental citywide upzoning. We should build off of that.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

The citywide approach is politically and substantively the best approach. Every neighborhood, particularly the wealthiest and transit-rich ones, should contribute. Housing is a community affair.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

With that said, de Blasio did himself no political favors by mostly rezoning poor neighborhoods while leaving wealthier ones, with the exception of SoHo, largely untouched. That was BS.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

@ManOfTheLibrary Kassouf is classless

Kabrhel is just funny

[sean pennino @seanpennino]

earthquakes have killed fewer housing units than the LA planning commission https://t.co/oHzffeYltF

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

@sanandreafault Me right now

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

Tokyo is one of the most earthquake prone megacities on planet f-ing earth, but it still manages to build infinitely more housing than Los Angeles because earthquakes don’t ban housing — idiotic zoning laws do.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

At what point do we look at the rents, rent burdens, and homelessness rates in places that already ran the experiment of building too little housing (NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston) and conclude that maybe that was dumb and it’s time to try the opposite?

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

People love saying Tokyo’s housing model is overrated, yet the second you suggest importing it to Los Angeles, where ~75% of residential land is reserved for single-family housing, they’ll have a stroke.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

@HopefulIdiot @HashimotoKana90 I can’t imagine comparing Tokyo and LA’s urbanization with a straight face and concluding they’re similar. I thought he was doing a bit.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

@girakov7 @DerUntermutt He’s also wrong about Tokyo because he doesn’t know how to use Google or something