A.J. Herrmann

Director of Policy and Program Innovation @USAccelerate | Formerly Policy Director @quintonlucaskc | All opinions are my own.

[Accelerator For America @USAccelerate]

📢 WE'RE HIRING!

AFA seeks dynamic and experienced individuals for the roles of Senior Manager and Infrastructure Program Manager.

AFA seeks a Senior Manager with knowledge and experience in housing, transit-oriented development, local economic and community development, place-based innovation strategies, innovative finance and capital attraction, and federal funding sources.

AFA also seeks an Infrastructure Program Manager with knowledge and understanding of national, state, and local infrastructure policies and programs, and who can coordinate with stakeholders + partners and manage programming for United for Infrastructure.

👉 Interested? Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/ZAGZsoQOfm

[Accelerator For America @USAccelerate]

It's time to treat housing like a true crisis!

On the eve of #ElectionDay, the National Housing Crisis Task Force releases From Crisis to Transformation: A Federal Housing Policy Agenda, outlining 40 bold actions Congress can take to expand housing supply, protect renters & drive innovation.

Download the full report at: https://t.co/zT3TV8EHvR

#HousingCrisis

[Accelerator For America @USAccelerate]

Time To Treat the Housing Crisis Like a Crisis: A Call to action from Co-Chairs of the National Housing Crisis Task Force — @GovCox, @andreforatlanta, @JustinMBibb, Susan Thomas ⁦@FifthThird, @USAccelerate, @DrexelLab

https://t.co/OW76QtxXOx

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

The latest newsletter from the Housing Crisis Task Force - how the federal government can cut red tape and mobilize capital to increase housing production and affordbaility: https://t.co/u7NZPsvFCT

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

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https://t.co/22mFHY8jQo

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

RIP, Oakland baseball: https://t.co/saZA6jVvIk

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Fired up to be part of this urgent and needed effort!

[Accelerator For America @USAccelerate]

ANNOUNCEMENT -- AFA & @DrexelLab launch National Housing Crisis Task Force, a bi-partisan initiative co-chaired by @GovCox, Mayors @andreforatlanta & @JustinmBibb & @fifthThird’s Susan Thomas.

This ambitious, 2-year project will bring innovations in housing production, preservation, & finance to communities across the country. #HousingCrisis

https://t.co/CF4SdB6cWy

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Happy to have been able to help contribute to this newsletter and to highlight @KansasCity and @QuintonLucasKC's leadership on new models for supporting large-scale transit and infrastructure investments!

[Bruce Katz @bruce_katz]

Emerging Projects Agreements; Kudos to @USDOT @SecretaryPete for pioneering a new kind of Federal-City Partnership around infrastructure investments w KC and Austin: my latest w @BenLWeiser @ajherrma @RossvanD @USAccelerate https://t.co/IekgSTkyWf

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Re-upping this great eulogy to East Bay Baseball on a sad day for Oakland. If Major League is ever rebooted it will just be a documentary about John Fisher, the worst owner in professional sports.

https://t.co/2yO7MWxZO3

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

A pretty good list! Thanks to a great Mayor, strong allies on city council, and a lot of very hardworking staff and advocates who pushed to get things done.

[Mayor Q @QuintonLucasKC]

Just received my update on legislation I have filed since starting this gig. I’ll pull up my City Council era classics too some day, but a lot of good progress here for the people of Kansas City and surrounds!

[Mayor Q @QuintonLucasKC]

The wins keep coming for Kansas City. Out of 300+ applications nationwide, we were selected as one of 31 communities to be designated a Tech Hub by the @CommerceGov . This means millions in federal investment and thousands of jobs in bio manufacturing from Columbia to Manhattan.

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Was an honor to moderate this discussion - great conversation with @saintlouismayor @QuintonLucasKC, Miles Sandler from @KauffmanFDN and Neal Richardson from @DevelopStLouis on how cities can promote economic mobility.

[Mayor Q @QuintonLucasKC]

Honored to join my sister @saintlouismayor and a distinguished panel today at the Kauffman Foundation as part of the Accelerator for America convening. We are talking economic development, particularly in communities which have historically been left out. Great plans ahead.

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

If this site had a super retweet option that you could only use once a year I'd be unleashing it to boost this.

[hk @hassankhan]

I’ll say this after 2.5 months of public service:

Anyone doing policy research should spend time as a public official. Policy making and execution are far different beasts than research.

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Go vote! It’s been amazing to see what @QuintonLucasKC has gotten done the last four years. Let’s keep building for the next four!!

[Mayor Q @QuintonLucasKC]

I am Quinton Lucas.

I am once again asking you to vote today.

[Brookings Metro @BrookingsMetro]

We may look back at the American Rescue Plan Act’s COVID-19 relief program as not simply an economic recovery effort, but a down payment on a more prosperous future for America’s local economies, @laveabrachman, @joeparilla, @GlencoraH & @ajherrma write. https://t.co/j4oGP5XJ2r

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

As a longtime A’s fan who grew up in Rep Lee’s district I love this (and the energy Oakland brought for the reverse boycott last night).

[Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived) @RepBarbaraLee]

Today, @RepDeSaulnier and I introduced the “Moneyball Act” to make sure MLB is accountable to its communities.

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Very proud of this project and grateful to get the chance to collaborate with awesome researchers at Brookings to highlight the good work being done by many of AFA's Mayors with their ARPA relief funds.

[Brookings Metro @BrookingsMetro]

New analysis with @USAccelerate and @NACoTweets show how local governments are using the $130 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act’s (ARPA) COVID-19 state and local funding toward housing, infrastructure, and neighborhood revitalization needs. https://t.co/j4oGP5XJ2r

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Glad to see some national attention on 71 Highway. Every city has their version of this story, proud that ⁦@USAccelerate⁩ was able to help ⁦@QuintonLucasKC⁩ get some federal funding to begin to address this long-standing challenge. https://t.co/rqqSEiMO0g

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

Very excited to see BAM/WOW's expansion into KC by @YG_KansasCity profiled as a promising case study by @Results4America. Big props to Exec Director Garrett Webster and local champions @GreenLightKCI and @QuintonLucasKC https://t.co/Z6hgMiJk1s

[A.J. Herrmann @ajherrma]

New research from our partners @DrexelLab on trends in investor purchases of single-family homes, data from Philadelphia suggests they are heavily concentrated in minority/low-income neighborhoods at purchase prices far lower than individual-individual sales.

[Accelerator For America @USAccelerate]

Our new report w/ @DrexelLab & @reinvestfund reveals striking findings: homes which sold from an owner-occupant to an investor off the MLS sold for 51% LESS than comparable homes sold on the MLS to an individual.

Read the full report ➡️ https://t.co/8sjizI0Klo