Kirsten Bladh
@kerstanley.bsky.social
Policy @ Open New York. She/her. Cargo bike mom. Bassist for Leggy in my former life. NYC via LA via Cincinnati. Left urbanist 🚆
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broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
Who are the most powerful NIMBYs in California? Realtors
OPINION: “No one should be more invested in expanding creative home sales opportunities than real estate agents, whose job is to help families realize their homeownership dreams.”
www.sfchronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
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The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
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red plenty is real and it is happening lmao
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
red plenty is real and it is happening lmao
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In a span of barely five years, @opennewyork.org went from a band of ragtag volunteers to a professional organization driving a strong pro-housing agenda in Albany and New York City. If you aren't already involved, get involved!
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
Become a Member — Open New York Education Fund
www.onyeducation.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In a span of barely five years, @opennewyork.org went from a band of ragtag volunteers to a professional organization driving a strong pro-housing agenda in Albany and New York City. If you aren't already involved, get involved!
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
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Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
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I have never felt more patriotic
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I have never felt more patriotic
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A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
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wait so did Zohran actually dog-walk the fucking president with nothing but his own insane charisma am I understanding correctly
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
wait so did Zohran actually dog-walk the fucking president with nothing but his own insane charisma am I understanding correctly
My neighbor told me landlords keep eating his wages so I asked how many wages he has and he said he just goes to the Santa Fe City Council and gets a new wage afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding wages to landlords and then his daughter started crying.
Every city in America needs to tie their minimum wage to the cost of rent. Period. Let's go.
#SolidaritySeason
#SolidaritySeason
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My neighbor told me landlords keep eating his wages so I asked how many wages he has and he said he just goes to the Santa Fe City Council and gets a new wage afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding wages to landlords and then his daughter started crying.
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Don’t want to @ the person and get into it but I’ve been thinking about the “Housing may be expensive in a lot of places but it’s not a national crisis” argument. It’s a bit like saying we don’t have a national opioid crisis because there are a lot of places where it’s not that much of a problem.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Don’t want to @ the person and get into it but I’ve been thinking about the “Housing may be expensive in a lot of places but it’s not a national crisis” argument. It’s a bit like saying we don’t have a national opioid crisis because there are a lot of places where it’s not that much of a problem.
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tapping on this evergreen graphic.
if americans (and canadians, etc) paid fair taxes relative to the cost of service upkeep to their household, suddenly low-density car centric sprawl would be far less appealing.
it is artificially propped up to be attainable to people.
if americans (and canadians, etc) paid fair taxes relative to the cost of service upkeep to their household, suddenly low-density car centric sprawl would be far less appealing.
it is artificially propped up to be attainable to people.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
tapping on this evergreen graphic.
if americans (and canadians, etc) paid fair taxes relative to the cost of service upkeep to their household, suddenly low-density car centric sprawl would be far less appealing.
it is artificially propped up to be attainable to people.
if americans (and canadians, etc) paid fair taxes relative to the cost of service upkeep to their household, suddenly low-density car centric sprawl would be far less appealing.
it is artificially propped up to be attainable to people.
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My biggest motivator to being a red plenty/abundance Stalinism person on housing is that destroying single family homes in favor of commieblocks and transit rich walkable communities is eradicating the rentier class and their hitlerite particles.
many YIMBYs i know are actually quite explicit about working against their own financial interest
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My biggest motivator to being a red plenty/abundance Stalinism person on housing is that destroying single family homes in favor of commieblocks and transit rich walkable communities is eradicating the rentier class and their hitlerite particles.
Sometimes this tendency is even applied to unequivocally good things, like new subway trains!
It's not possible that the government is doing something for the good of the public, it must be that someone is getting rich off of a government contract.
It's not possible that the government is doing something for the good of the public, it must be that someone is getting rich off of a government contract.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sometimes this tendency is even applied to unequivocally good things, like new subway trains!
It's not possible that the government is doing something for the good of the public, it must be that someone is getting rich off of a government contract.
It's not possible that the government is doing something for the good of the public, it must be that someone is getting rich off of a government contract.
My home state has essentially zero regulations of home schooling, despite the serious potential for child abuse. I have a friend who was homeschooled purely because his parents feared he was gay, so they wanted to have complete control over him. He never learned how to formally write.
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My home state has essentially zero regulations of home schooling, despite the serious potential for child abuse. I have a friend who was homeschooled purely because his parents feared he was gay, so they wanted to have complete control over him. He never learned how to formally write.
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Their 50-year mortgage plan bombed & they won’t build housing or touch Wall Street landlords, so they’re hoping you blame your high rent on immigrants.
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Their 50-year mortgage plan bombed & they won’t build housing or touch Wall Street landlords, so they’re hoping you blame your high rent on immigrants.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY (the business school)
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY (the business school)
It's especially infuriating when you consider that nearly half of American adults fly less than once a year and roughly 15% have never even been on a plane.
Caved to save Thanksgiving flights. JFC.
Sen. Angus King on why Democrats caved: "It wasn't working."
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It's especially infuriating when you consider that nearly half of American adults fly less than once a year and roughly 15% have never even been on a plane.
LFG. I want 1 million NYC bureaucrats.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
www.transition2025.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LFG. I want 1 million NYC bureaucrats.
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
www.transition2025.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
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Listen to Mamdani last night.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Listen to Mamdani last night.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.
This is my precinct, where easily 95% of the population lives in brand-new market rate apartment buildings, i.e. “luxury housing.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is my precinct, where easily 95% of the population lives in brand-new market rate apartment buildings, i.e. “luxury housing.”
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zohran is going to build so much goddamn housing, Props 2-4 all passing by at least 8 points
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
zohran is going to build so much goddamn housing, Props 2-4 all passing by at least 8 points