Katherine Levine Einstein

Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University | local politics, race and public policy, housing |

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

Excited that @davidmglick @MaxwellBPalmer and
my book Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis comes out November 2019! @CUP_PoliSci (1/3)

https://t.co/8bgPgH5av2

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

@jon_m_rob @MoCoCouncilMD @cantstopkevin @MaxwellBPalmer @davidmglick Thanks for collecting this info and sharing! It's unfortunately not surprising how well this finding replicates.

[Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf]

🥳New paper! "Do Housing Supply Skeptics Learn?"🎆

Yessir, they do!

And when they do, they become *much* more supportive of market-rate housing development.

1/🧵

https://t.co/MPjIwXuqyg

[Justin de Benedictis-Kessner @jdbk]

Local offices–like city councilors, mayors, and county legislators–are the most common elected offices in the US. But what determines local election outcomes and what are the consequences of these elections? Our paper out today should help answer those Qs: https://t.co/9WtaFR5Ixj

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

@Expeditionswork @MarkRuffalo @nytimes Thanks! We have a one-page summary of my work with @davidmglick and @MaxwellBPalmer here: https://t.co/XtNUkqtQXW. The people who attend meetings like this one are unrepresentative (and more privileged) than the broader community, and disproportionately opposed to new housing.

[Amy Dain @amydain]

Lead article of @BostonGlobeMag today: For decades, suburbs of Boston have been zoning children out of new apartment buildings.

https://t.co/mzlgCimKNU

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

@scrosenzweig @CambridgeUP @CUP_PoliSci Congrats!!

[Initiative on Cities @BUonCities]

Today our team, supported by @RockefellerFdn, released the final set of findings from the 2022 #MeninoSurvey, the only nationally representative survey of American mayors. Read about mayors’ views on key economic and public health + safety challenges: https://t.co/fDOBPAgu0F 🧵⤵️

[Soubhik Barari @SoubhikBarari]

🚨📄 out now in @nature @ScientificData with @tylersimko:

https://t.co/R5wDlCyUUM

We introduce LocalView: a comprehensive dataset of over 100,000 real-time U.S. local government public meeting videos from 1,000+ localities (and counting). 🧵 1/5

[MHP Data @mhpdata]

Ready to measure density in your neighborhood? We’re excited to announce the official release of #Residensity, our new site for measuring & exploring residential density & housing type anywhere in MA! Now available to everyone.🏡📊🥳🎉https://t.co/jP0cf2LGwK 1/ @KimDriscollMA

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

@AlliPatter @KearnsErinM Yes, @davidmglick and I have been doing a Wire-based political science lecture course for almost a decade now. Happy to share a syllabus!

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

Hopefully, this will come with strong federal incentives to both state and local governments to reform their zoning to allow for more multifamily housing and greater housing density--policies that will allow residents at a variety of income levels to find housing. 6/

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

In a new policy brief supported by @cmtysolutions , @CharleyWillison and I analyze whether cities connect homelessness with their local land use/zoning policies. 1/
https://t.co/IIvwwPPSNd

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

In contrast, the Biden Administration's Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness connects homelessness, the local housing supply, and restrictive land use and zoning. 5/

[Initiative on Cities @BUonCities]

Today our team, supported by @RockefellerFdn, released the first findings from the 2022 #MeninoSurvey, the only nationally representative survey of American mayors. Read how mayors are addressing the #ClimateCrisis in their cities: https://t.co/a0YOYJbJD4 🧵⬇️

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

The state government in Massachusetts isn't tracking any of this systemically. We were able to describe the size and restrictions on subsidized units thanks to data from @housingnav_ma. /5

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

This is an especially big problem for subsidized housing. In this year's @bostonfdn Housing Report Card, @MaxwellBPalmer and I found that, in some Boston suburbs, virtually all of the subsidized housing is restricted to seniors. /1

[Amy Dain @amydain]

This is a thread about ongoing discrimination in housing policy, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, specifically its protections for families with children. The suburbs of Boston systematically limit development of apartments and condos for families with children. /2

[Katherine Levine Einstein @katherineeinst]

As @amydain points out, the discretionary process by which most suburbs produce multifamily housing is a big part of the problem. We identified multiple community meetings where residents worried about new children moving in, and the pressures they would place on schools. /4