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Dan Immergluck
@danimmergluck.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus, Public Policy & Urban Studies, Georgia

Immergluck Housing Analytics LLC

Affordable/Fair Housing/Finance, Cities, Community Devl't, Expert Analysis & Witness
CHI->ATL->CHI Opinions = own

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · Aug 21
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I am Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies & Public Policy at Georgia State University & a (part-time) consultant for nonprofits & government on affordable & fair housing, community development, housing & community development finance, and related policy & planning. Latest book:
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta [Immergluck, Dan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 27m
...to follow above last question, the Mayor keeps pointing to stats about the *residents* of some parts of the TAD areas suffering from poverty, etc. Seems like 20+ years of TADs in these areas suggest that they *aren't* a great tool for helping *existing* residents in or near poverty.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 29m
Maybe if: 1) only nabes where values decreasing/flat; 2) some % of increment guaranteed to schools; 3) some % for deeply affordable housing; 4) baseline of TADs=CURRENT values. But still begs question of track record of existing TADs. How come some parts of TADs still distressed despite city growth?

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1h
2/2 *Note to the above: Even in distressed areas there are questions about whether TIFs/TADs, in general, are beneficial for cities, because the evidence suggests they mostly "steal" growth from areas of the same city without a TIF/TAD and lead to lower citywide growth.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1h
May be posting these slides a lot in the next few weeks/months...

Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2h
When I am the “some” in “some have suggested”

And if you think extending tax increment financing (TADs/TIFs) in often gentrifying nabes, with already fast-rising property values, is not diverting funding from schools & basic services — hahaha

“TADs do not…divert funding as some have suggested”
Mayor Andre Dickens: Atlanta has a moral imperative to fix city’s inequality
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens says the city's inequalities require investing deeply in distressed neighborhoods. A key to this is extending Tax Allocation Districts for funding.
www.ajc.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 16h
Gavin out there trying to get more young people to vote, and vote for Democrats, by appealing to what they are really clamoring for…cultural uniformity.
jwmason.bsky.social JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 16h
It seems to me that what’s culturally normal in the United States is not getting into other people’s private business. It’s only weird obsessives like Gavin Newsom who want to poke around in people’s pants before letting them play sports or use the bathroom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8-d...
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 16h
It seems to me that what’s culturally normal in the United States is not getting into other people’s private business. It’s only weird obsessives like Gavin Newsom who want to poke around in people’s pants before letting them play sports or use the bathroom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8-d...
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
guy needs some sort of drug...

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Nick Keppler @nickkeppler.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches
Medicare Scammers Are Calling Seniors 50 Times a Day, Trying to Trap Them
www.nytimes.com

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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 2d
FIFA invited President Donald Trump to address the World Cup 2026 draw Friday after he receives the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, per multiple sources briefed on the event’s planning

@adamcrafton.bsky.social has the full story ⬇️

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Hear me out. Dan Campbell, the Lions head coach, as the Dude in a remake of The Big Lebowski.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
I think some folks wonder how six Supreme Court Justices could just totally cave for Trump on so many rulings.

These folks never actually had principles—of any kind. Some of them were masters at pretending they did. And now they have been able to release that pretense.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d
Just a nation of absolute dupes.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
Time to tap the Westley sign again...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
Will repeat the notion that If you go on a podcast or talk show with a Nazi *and* talk nice to the Nazi, you are endorsing the Nazi. Full stop.

This should destroy one's credibility and yet...
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
Grim called me “insane” for saying Democrats shouldn’t recruit candidates with Nazi tattoos and now that I see who he takes seriously, that take makes a lot of sense
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d
Ryan Grim: I think the posse will find a lot useful there.

Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.

Grim: No doubt about it.

Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d
Grim called me “insane” for saying Democrats shouldn’t recruit candidates with Nazi tattoos and now that I see who he takes seriously, that take makes a lot of sense
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d
Ryan Grim: I think the posse will find a lot useful there.

Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior.

Grim: No doubt about it.

Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
Sigh. The rubber-stamp Atlanta city council strikes again (a couple members abstaining).

Inability to do math is not just a Trump problem. Using one source of affordable housing $ to pay back another (instead of funding new housing), is reducing city's overall $ commitment to affordable housing.
The substitute legislation the council approved adds a line specifying that the trust can be used to service housing bond debt — without any percentage cap — which cements the city’s ability to use the trust freely for that purpose. It also caps annual trust expenditures on staff and administration at 15%, instead of 5% — and it gives the city’s chief financial officer, Mohamed Balla, the liberty to determine those expenditures. The new legislation also specifies that the trust must be used to fund housing that’s affordable to households making 60% or less of the area median income (AMI) — instead of the initially proposed 50% AMI. While it directs that the trust should fund housing at 50% AMI “to the greatest extent possible,” it doesn’t mandate any percentage of trust spending for that goal. It also removes the 30% cap for funding nonprofit housing programs. In fact, the amended legislation seems to expand the city’s power to determine how to spend the trust. A new clause says that the city council can authorize expenditures for “other uses not contemplated … to address urgent and/or unanticipated needs on a case-by-case basis.”

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
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austinlouisray.bsky.social austie @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 3d
holy shit, y'all

our 2025 fundraiser results are in, and we abolished $5,275,122 worth of medical debt in the Atlanta metro area!

thank you so, so much for your help. how in the world are we gonna top this next year!?

check out the full report:

how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/our-2025-fun...
our 2025 fundraiser results
Unless you're new around here (hi!), you probably know that every September we drag our asses out into these chaotic internet streets and we see how much money we can raise to abolish medical debt in ...
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io

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austie @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 3d
holy shit, y'all

our 2025 fundraiser results are in, and we abolished $5,275,122 worth of medical debt in the Atlanta metro area!

thank you so, so much for your help. how in the world are we gonna top this next year!?

check out the full report:

how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/our-2025-fun...
our 2025 fundraiser results
Unless you're new around here (hi!), you probably know that every September we drag our asses out into these chaotic internet streets and we see how much money we can raise to abolish medical debt in ...
how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
#JettisonJeffries
thefarce.org 🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 3d
Doesn't take a genius to beat Trump when he's not on the ballot, and his policies annoy most of the country.

But with Jeffries's comments on Cuellar, the border, & his "No Ceiling" slogan, only a donor could love, he could lead Democrats into a UK Labour nosedive.

He's talking to the wrong people.
Democrats’ New Slogan Is a Donor-Class Disaster
It’s time to start the 2028 primary and step over this donor-coddling nonsense.
www.theframelab.org

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
Nodding in large language models in urban planning/studies research.
kevintmorris.bsky.social Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 3d
In other words: Let's not let what we study be totally determined by what's _easy_ to study. Can't help but feel like the tail is wagging the dog a lot of times when it comes to survey experiments. Not all of them, of course, but more than a few

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
....and this chart from the above article...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
"Of the 1,895 people detained by ICE (during the first half of 'Operation Midway Blitz')...281 had a criminal conviction...the vast majority of offenses were misdemeanors, traffic citations or nonviolent felonies.

Only 28 arrestees (**1.5%**) had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d
I'm in the middle of this right now, and while I may have lived through some of the history (and recall much of it in broad strokes) it's providing an in-depth class on the catastrophe of the US' postwar meddling in central america...
Book: Everyone who is gone is here by Jonathan Blitzer