Kristen Hackett

Organizing in the East Bay, writing on housing futures, PhD completed 2024, @GC_CUNY, disso: “The Contested State of Public Housing in NYC”.

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

#socialhousing is a hot topic of debate amongst progressives, with multiple state and local governments passing, working on or considering legislation.

The issue is, there is a disconnect between the stated aims and technical forms being pursued.

https://t.co/dYYkviSeYj

[Hᴜıƶᴀʀ @HuizarTony]

President Claudia Sheinbaum has just sent a bill to Congress banning GMO corn, declaring maize a cornerstone of Mexican national identity, and enshrining agroecological practices as mandatory.

No GMO poison. No glyphosate. This is food sovereignty and environmental justice in practice.

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

According to CPS officials, ICE agents were turned away from Hamline Elementary Schools. This is the power of a union contract that fights for everyone. In 2019 we won sanctuary provisions for our schools & we will work together to protect our students and communities.

https://t.co/3seQMbfRVd

[Mexican Rug Dealer @DealinRugs]

LA isn’t playing around… There’s a spreadsheet of landlords price-gouging rent during the LA Fires https://t.co/in7qTMp0Kf

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

This is such irresponsible disinformation @thehill: "In total, the Biden administration has now spent $183.6 billion to forgive student loans."

There is no ***spending*** involved in cancelling a debt. Like it literally involves $0 of spending. https://t.co/rTj2Lcp1e1

[L.A. Tenants Union @LATenantsUnion]

In poor and working-class neighborhoods, tenants will be hit with harassment, frivolous 3-day notices, and baseless evictions. THEN the landlords will price-gouge, and the former tenants will become homeless.

EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

@ramonathemona can you see this tweet?

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

Feels timely to reshare this platform I worked on w @ourcityRTTC that offers some shape to the question of: what does the policy fight and trajectory at the intersection of housing, climate and land justice look like?

https://t.co/HeajxMhILg

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

4/ Housing policy IS Climate policy. Over last 3 decades, 32 million new homes were built in fire prone WUI, where 1/3 of all wildfires started. "Consequences of Human-Ignited Wildfires to Homes in US (1992–2015)" https://t.co/Gp6a6oGxLD
https://t.co/QQblSjm2BD

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

What?!?! Lollll

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

What’s currently happening in Los Angeles is exactly what we have been warning about.

The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The worst arsonists are fossil fuel CEOs.

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

@Mental339631 lol glad I’m plaguing you 😝

[Los Angeles Public Press @LAPublicPress]

He lost his home of almost 40 years. Now, at 59, he’s in his car.
https://t.co/MZDUHJL2FS

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

The answer to the housing crisis is not “more housing”, it is “more PUBLIC housing”. And we can start by protecting what we have left.

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

Shocking.. 🫠

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

Evictions rise at NYC public housing complexes under private management, report finds

https://t.co/gh1JoiXAxi

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

Whose intention?

The real estate finance class wins at least twice over.

From taking over control of the props w signif state subsidy in tact albeit reworked, to jacking up priv market rents unendingly knowing that people have no where else to go.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

So much looking forward to the conversation with legendary Michael Hudson.
Join us!
9th of January, 8 pm GMT.
https://t.co/oQBlrtfHVN

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

Such an important analysis.. pointing to continuing and expanding trends in realm of criminalization.. worth the read.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

I just published a new Luigi Mangione document the press is withholding, an NYPD intel report warning of “disdain for corporate greed" and the "online reactions to the shooting" risking "extremists" imitating Mangione
https://t.co/aMyGcpOSnI

[Kristen Hackett @ka_hackett]

@Shane135792 @FecStop13647 Section 8 is not public housing. And these “guarantees” have not manifested elsewhere.

What’s your stake in this? Why go against what residents themselves are saying?