Eric Cova

LGBTQ+ | Climate | Cities | Travel | MPA @NYUWagner Comms Director @SmartGrowthUSA

[Reed Schwartz @reedschwartzsf]

New York State just authorized a land value tax that could generate billions of dollars for new transit.

For the @NiskanenCenter, @aarmlovi and I wrote about how the renewal of § 119-r in the FY27 budget could unlock a virtuous cycle of infrastructure delivery in NYC.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning

certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

Mamdani unveils his new housing plan, with a goal of building 200K new income-restricted, affordable homes over the next decade

He describes his evolution from development skeptic to YIMBY

“I want to speak to the skeptical New Yorker because I was once the skeptical New Yorker”

[BrandonWC @BrandonWC]

Drivers are a great example of "equality feels like oppression." The 51% of road users on foot used to only get 30% of the space. Even with the (great) new design, pedestrians only get 42% of the road, while the 39% in cars get 49% of the space.

[NYC Planning @NYCPlanning]

Across too much of NYC, outdated zoning is holding transit-rich areas back.

On White Plains Road in the Bronx and Coney Island and McDonald Avenues in Brooklyn, we’ll update zoning through community-led plans that deliver affordable homes, new jobs and neighborhood investments.

[Antonio Reynoso @BKBPReynoso]

If you're filing noise complaints against Brooklyn's oldest lesbian bar during Pride, you might be in the wrong neighborhood.

This has been a home for queer Brooklynites for 26 years. Ginger's deserves better.

[David Brand @DavidFBrand]

NEW: Mayor Mamdani's first neighborhood-level housing plan targets the blocks south of Prospect Park — near the future IBX

City Planning Director Sideya Sherman: “There’s an opportunity to create potentially thousands of housing units for our city"

@Gothamist @WNYC

[Detroit Lions @Lions]

Mark your calendars

[Eric Cova @eicova]

Updated Housing Bill text just dropped! https://t.co/wvySI6LzY9

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.” 😅

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Feel like the Bible is quite explicit on this one

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

The best argument re: Virginia decision I’ve heard is this:

[Omari Sankofa II @omarisankofa]

“The Stones” have definitely been a thing for a long time. Heard it more in college than I did growing up. But yeah lol

[Eric Cova @eicova]

These high gas prices are going to push more people to adopt EVs than any policy to date has.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

My most socialist position is that all NFL, NBA, and MLB playoff games should be on network TV - kids whose parents can’t afford or don’t have streaming services should still be able to watch

[ABC News @ABC]

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. https://t.co/hwzwfkkLBS

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Confederate states are rushing through rigged maps to erase Black districts off the map.

If this doesn’t make you angry, it should.

[Ben Furnas @bfurnas]

“More than 80 people died or received serious injuries in crashes over the past seven years, according to the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives. That averages out to a life-altering crash every single month.”

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

This is *insane.* Even if you are too tired to follow the news you have to understand this. The Louisiana governor has *suspended an active congressional election with 42k votes already cast* — it's insane.

[Chris Goldammer @floor_per_area]

Let's upzone NYC!

Now live:
https://t.co/CvGmSOxD2G

See the zoning potential (air rights=blue) for every residential lot in NYC. And then ... change it.