jmaddenmass.bsky.social
@jmaddenmass.bsky.social
Author of Bittersweet Lane: Affordable Housing in America @rowhousepub 11/2025. Bicoastal dad. Housing dev consultant. Insufferably Irish-ish. Punk.
Health insurance went from $900/month to $2805/month. I don't know what to do.
January 21, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Health insurance went from $900/month to $2805/month. I don't know what to do.
It will be a tragedy if Seattle misses the opportunity to do social housing well www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Social housing supporters cast doubt on CEO as money poised to flow
In a letter sent last week, nearly 20 labor and advocacy groups said the developer could squander an opportunity if there is not strong leadership at the top.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It will be a tragedy if Seattle misses the opportunity to do social housing well www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Recap of last month's tour youtu.be/vObFHGLqdko Endless gratitude to the few hundred of you who came out in freezing cold to discuss how to solve our affordable housing crisis!
Bittersweet Lane Northeast Book Release Tour
YouTube video by Jamie Madden
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January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Recap of last month's tour youtu.be/vObFHGLqdko Endless gratitude to the few hundred of you who came out in freezing cold to discuss how to solve our affordable housing crisis!
The federal government attacks on all fronts. This project (also featured in my book) is the type of work that can solve our housing crisis. That is why the feds attack it. Glad to see funding protected for now. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/12/b...
‘Unimaginably inhumane’: Federal cuts threaten to undo Boston’s progress fighting homelessness - The Boston Globe
Permanent supportive housing has successfully housed some of the city’s most vulnerable residents, but the federal government no longer wants to pay for these projects.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The federal government attacks on all fronts. This project (also featured in my book) is the type of work that can solve our housing crisis. That is why the feds attack it. Glad to see funding protected for now. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/12/b...
Use everything you have. Act and prepare now.
Live in a condo? What's your HOA's policy on ICE and do your property managers have a process?
On a PTA? What's your school's plan for an ICE raid?
Youth sports? What's the plan to keep kids safe?
Live in a condo? What's your HOA's policy on ICE and do your property managers have a process?
On a PTA? What's your school's plan for an ICE raid?
Youth sports? What's the plan to keep kids safe?
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Use everything you have. Act and prepare now.
Live in a condo? What's your HOA's policy on ICE and do your property managers have a process?
On a PTA? What's your school's plan for an ICE raid?
Youth sports? What's the plan to keep kids safe?
Live in a condo? What's your HOA's policy on ICE and do your property managers have a process?
On a PTA? What's your school's plan for an ICE raid?
Youth sports? What's the plan to keep kids safe?
Next Thursday Seattle!
Seattle! I'd like to invite you to the Seattle launch event for my memoir about affordable housing at Elliott Bay Books on Jan 15th 7pm with Maiko Winkler-Chin www.elliottbaybook.com/events/49063
Jamie Madden w/ Maiko Winkler-Chin | Elliott Bay Book Company
Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles
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January 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Next Thursday Seattle!
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Highly recommend Bittersweet Lane by @jmaddenmass.bsky.social as he gets directly at this problem being so deeply intertwined with common law's roots: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...
Bittersweet Lane
The Bitter Reality. The Sweet Solutions. The Lane Forward.Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works—or why...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Highly recommend Bittersweet Lane by @jmaddenmass.bsky.social as he gets directly at this problem being so deeply intertwined with common law's roots: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...
Seattle! I'd like to invite you to the Seattle launch event for my memoir about affordable housing at Elliott Bay Books on Jan 15th 7pm with Maiko Winkler-Chin www.elliottbaybook.com/events/49063
Jamie Madden w/ Maiko Winkler-Chin | Elliott Bay Book Company
Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles
www.elliottbaybook.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Seattle! I'd like to invite you to the Seattle launch event for my memoir about affordable housing at Elliott Bay Books on Jan 15th 7pm with Maiko Winkler-Chin www.elliottbaybook.com/events/49063
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Spending the evening with one of my favorite humans … (well, at least his voice … )
@jmaddenmass.bsky.social
#BittersweetLane #NewBook
Bittersweet Lane
Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
By Jamie Madden
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...
@jmaddenmass.bsky.social
#BittersweetLane #NewBook
Bittersweet Lane
Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
By Jamie Madden
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Spending the evening with one of my favorite humans … (well, at least his voice … )
@jmaddenmass.bsky.social
#BittersweetLane #NewBook
Bittersweet Lane
Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
By Jamie Madden
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...
@jmaddenmass.bsky.social
#BittersweetLane #NewBook
Bittersweet Lane
Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis
By Jamie Madden
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bitter...
Four years ago I put fingertips to keyboard to write a book about affordable housing. I want everyone to understand that we can fix this housing crisis. We know how. Today, that book is on shelves. Plus, audiobook fans, listen to me get nice with the blah blah blah open.spotify.com/show/5wLdd59...
Bittersweet Lane
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November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Four years ago I put fingertips to keyboard to write a book about affordable housing. I want everyone to understand that we can fix this housing crisis. We know how. Today, that book is on shelves. Plus, audiobook fans, listen to me get nice with the blah blah blah open.spotify.com/show/5wLdd59...
Thank you to Keliis and the Fabulous 413 for having me on the radio yesterday! More Western Mass at Odyssey Books in South Hadley tonight!! play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
The Fabulous 413
It’s Hunger Awareness Week here at NEPM and that means all week we’ll be talking with folx involved with the fight against hunger, the proverbial boots on the ground here in Western Mass. We start at ...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thank you to Keliis and the Fabulous 413 for having me on the radio yesterday! More Western Mass at Odyssey Books in South Hadley tonight!! play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
Writers, keep at it. This week I'm touring for my book release. Last year I still didn't know if any of it would work out. www.authormagazine.org/articles/202...
Sometimes, It Works: One Writer’s Lesson in Persistence — Author
In 2021, I set out to write a book that had slowly been forming in my head for years. I work in creating affordable housing, and I’d always wanted a book I could leave behind with community groups, po...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Writers, keep at it. This week I'm touring for my book release. Last year I still didn't know if any of it would work out. www.authormagazine.org/articles/202...
People want this housing crisis fixed.
Where are we on housing policy this election evening?
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate loses decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increase & develop 200k affordable units, wins NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC likely passed.
—Housing funding passed in Columbus & Denver.
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate loses decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increase & develop 200k affordable units, wins NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC likely passed.
—Housing funding passed in Columbus & Denver.
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
People want this housing crisis fixed.
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These results keep going up—widespread support in New York City for housing reforms.
Now:
#2 with 58%
#3 with 57%
#4 with 58%
Now:
#2 with 58%
#3 with 57%
#4 with 58%
Initial results for NYC housing ballot referenda:
#2 Fast Track Affordable Housing: up with 55%
#3 Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects: up with 55%
#4 Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board: up with 55%
#2 Fast Track Affordable Housing: up with 55%
#3 Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects: up with 55%
#4 Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board: up with 55%
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
These results keep going up—widespread support in New York City for housing reforms.
Now:
#2 with 58%
#3 with 57%
#4 with 58%
Now:
#2 with 58%
#3 with 57%
#4 with 58%
Eastern RI and Southeastern Massachusetts, catch me in Jamestown Rhode Island on 12/8 www.eventbrite.com/e/bitterswee...
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Eastern RI and Southeastern Massachusetts, catch me in Jamestown Rhode Island on 12/8 www.eventbrite.com/e/bitterswee...
If you've let a low density, parking forward property at a neighborhood's primary intersection rot, maybe you share some blame for what's happened to it?
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If you've let a low density, parking forward property at a neighborhood's primary intersection rot, maybe you share some blame for what's happened to it?
Can Democrats retake Congress if they blah blah blah? Wrong question. Can ordinary people retake Congress from a fascist party and a false opposition?
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Can Democrats retake Congress if they blah blah blah? Wrong question. Can ordinary people retake Congress from a fascist party and a false opposition?
#Vermont and #NewHampshire join me on 11/19 and let's talk about the housing in crisis in rural and small towns
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#Vermont and #NewHampshire join me on 11/19 and let's talk about the housing in crisis in rural and small towns
The DUCKS? You lost to the Anaheim ducking ducks!?
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The DUCKS? You lost to the Anaheim ducking ducks!?
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When Bruce Harrell pulled a gun on a pregnant woman over a parking spot he was 37 years old, which is about the same age Katie Wilson was when she helped write and pass Seattle's Jumpstart tax, which brings in $300-400 million a year
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When Bruce Harrell pulled a gun on a pregnant woman over a parking spot he was 37 years old, which is about the same age Katie Wilson was when she helped write and pass Seattle's Jumpstart tax, which brings in $300-400 million a year
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“Busses are the backbone of Seattle’s transportation system. They connect our neighborhoods. They get people to work in school. They reduce traffic congestion, cut emissions, and they are the most affordable way to get thousands of our neighbors around town.”
NEW // Rinck Launches ‘Better Bus Lanes’ Campaign with Transit Advocates
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org //
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Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org //
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Rinck Launches ‘Better Bus Lanes’ Campaign with Transit Advocates » The Urbanist
# Flanked by a crowd of transit advocates, Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck announced a
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October 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
“Busses are the backbone of Seattle’s transportation system. They connect our neighborhoods. They get people to work in school. They reduce traffic congestion, cut emissions, and they are the most affordable way to get thousands of our neighbors around town.”
Western Mass! Come see me the day my book is released at Odyssey Books in South Hadley!
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Western Mass! Come see me the day my book is released at Odyssey Books in South Hadley!
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Katie Wilson, like many of us (including me) has struggled to pay the bills IN THIS CENTURY. I think people find it relatable that she has actually experienced Seattle's affordability challenges, which Harrell, as someone who has been very wealthy for decades, has not.
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Katie Wilson, like many of us (including me) has struggled to pay the bills IN THIS CENTURY. I think people find it relatable that she has actually experienced Seattle's affordability challenges, which Harrell, as someone who has been very wealthy for decades, has not.
Connecticut! Join me on Nov 17 at Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport during the Connecticut Affordable Housing Conference. Community, conversation, agus craíc
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Connecticut! Join me on Nov 17 at Park City Music Hall in Bridgeport during the Connecticut Affordable Housing Conference. Community, conversation, agus craíc