https://t.co/w5GGgieOiQ asks in their headline, "Are building permits up?"
https://t.co/hgqACwTpQw
Spoiler alert - they are. Particularly driven by multifamily.
New from me @CityAndStateNY: Addressing the state's affordable housing crisis will take years. I've proposed several bills to clear hurdles to expanding our housing stock that the legislature must act on this session.
https://t.co/5OY7fXNuE4
3) Most important: millions of families w/ kids live in poor quality homes/neighborhoods, w/ high levels of financial stress. If US wants a healthy, well-educated, productive workforce 20 yrs from now, we need to invest in better-quality living environments for *all* kids today.
I just left a hipster coffee shop in Downtown SYR where everybody was murmuring to each other about how great it would be if we replaced Erie Boulevard with a canal between Franklin and Montgomery Street
The biggest hurdle to better housing outcomes isn’t lack of good policy ideas. It’s building enough political support to enact policy changes that would ultimately make all of us better off. I hope this book can engage & persuade a wider audience.
https://t.co/Ed4x8JStWk
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Montgomery County Planning Board public hearings and then asked it to write a public hearing transcript of its own. Here is the first page.
1 week from today
leaving out from Clinton Square, ending at @market_salt where they've got nice outdoor heaters
If you can, bring new or gently used winter gloves/coats/hats to donate to @SyracuseSchools winter clothing drive!