Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow, CA FWD Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.
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In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
Honestly the more I think about this vile statement, the more it reminds me of the Old Left stalwarts who tried to wave away Stalin's atrocities well after they became public knowledge in the US. Feels like the same sort of moral blindness is opening up a similar rift in Jewish liberalism.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Honestly the more I think about this vile statement, the more it reminds me of the Old Left stalwarts who tried to wave away Stalin's atrocities well after they became public knowledge in the US. Feels like the same sort of moral blindness is opening up a similar rift in Jewish liberalism.
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For 20+ years I've got my info on Israel-Palestine from academic literature and leading independent civil society orgs. And I can tell you, its not the young pro-Palestine activists who've been radicalised into a dark place by virtue of inhabiting an information bubble. Its the political class.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For 20+ years I've got my info on Israel-Palestine from academic literature and leading independent civil society orgs. And I can tell you, its not the young pro-Palestine activists who've been radicalised into a dark place by virtue of inhabiting an information bubble. Its the political class.
"This story is going to be referenced in my obituary" is a hell of a damning statement.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"This story is going to be referenced in my obituary" is a hell of a damning statement.
Extremely troubling numbers for the Democrats. They must immediately denounce the San Francisco school district's policies regarding algebra if they're going to regain their edge. Preferably while driving F-150s.
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Extremely troubling numbers for the Democrats. They must immediately denounce the San Francisco school district's policies regarding algebra if they're going to regain their edge. Preferably while driving F-150s.
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how is it even possible to fuck up this bad
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
how is it even possible to fuck up this bad
Public preference isn't homogeneous and if there wasn't an extremely powerful constituency that values a suburban lifestyle above all else then we'd have already built enough of those smaller units to bring down their cost.
It’s also not true though. All Americans choose is proximity. Or small units without any of what he said wouldn’t cost more $/sf than the thing allegedly desired.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Public preference isn't homogeneous and if there wasn't an extremely powerful constituency that values a suburban lifestyle above all else then we'd have already built enough of those smaller units to bring down their cost.
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I've written on this question, and while I think detached house with a yard is a real preference a lot of Americans would hold regardless, I also think, to an American today, the question of preference is circular because urbanism is barely an option. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/have-you-e...
So your contention is that if we removed de facto subsidies for suburban living, we’d discover that most people actually prefer living in city center with no car? Of course, more people would end up doing that – the financial logic would change – but you’re saying Americans would on net PREFER that?
What is a subsidy, Alex?
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've written on this question, and while I think detached house with a yard is a real preference a lot of Americans would hold regardless, I also think, to an American today, the question of preference is circular because urbanism is barely an option. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/have-you-e...
This is partially right but IMO it's a slanted way of presenting the choice. Americans' revealed preference is a yard, a car, low congestion, no homelessness, and proximity to major metro labor markets. Similarly, my preference is to lose 15 pounds without making any lifestyle changes.
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is partially right but IMO it's a slanted way of presenting the choice. Americans' revealed preference is a yard, a car, low congestion, no homelessness, and proximity to major metro labor markets. Similarly, my preference is to lose 15 pounds without making any lifestyle changes.
Me on Trump's 50-year-mortgage scheme and all the other things he's done to make housing even less affordable: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
Trump's 50-year-mortgage proposal is just the start of his housing problems
Letting homebuyers opt for a longer mortgage won’t make any homes cheaper.
www.ms.now
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Me on Trump's 50-year-mortgage scheme and all the other things he's done to make housing even less affordable: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
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imagine if universities hired teachers instead of mere conduits for influence
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
imagine if universities hired teachers instead of mere conduits for influence
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Again, it is unbelievable that this man is permitted to walk free after causing the deaths of potentially millions of people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Musk Is Back in Politics. Does He Want to Stay a While?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Again, it is unbelievable that this man is permitted to walk free after causing the deaths of potentially millions of people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
I've been thinking about this in relation to prominent journalists defending Nuzzi and the best way I can draw a distinction between the two cases is to say that one is about accountability for geniune misconduct and another is about sticking your neck out for what's right and possibly losing access
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I've been thinking about this in relation to prominent journalists defending Nuzzi and the best way I can draw a distinction between the two cases is to say that one is about accountability for geniune misconduct and another is about sticking your neck out for what's right and possibly losing access
When you remember several years too late that ideological antisemitism is historically a pretty big part of fascism's whole deal
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When you remember several years too late that ideological antisemitism is historically a pretty big part of fascism's whole deal
Yeah there's plenty to criticize about Al Jazeera, but as one of several Jewish journalists who worked at Al Jazeera America I find it obscene that Hurwitz would equate them with a Nazi propagandist.
Perhaps I’m ignorant, but I did not realize that Nick Fuentes and Al Jazeera were comparable media organizations.
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Yeah there's plenty to criticize about Al Jazeera, but as one of several Jewish journalists who worked at Al Jazeera America I find it obscene that Hurwitz would equate them with a Nazi propagandist.
Very rare to see someone lay out so explicitly that they do not consider "never again" to be a universalist creed. I don't know how people who talk like this can stand to look themselves in the mirror.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very rare to see someone lay out so explicitly that they do not consider "never again" to be a universalist creed. I don't know how people who talk like this can stand to look themselves in the mirror.
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Coincidentally, I have a piece for @ms.now today on Trump's 50-year mortgage proposal and all the ways in which he's making the housing crisis worse. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Coincidentally, I have a piece for @ms.now today on Trump's 50-year mortgage proposal and all the ways in which he's making the housing crisis worse. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
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"Instead of bringing down home prices themselves, Trump’s plan is to simply give people more options for taking on debt. And homebuyers who opt for the 50-year loan will take on considerably more debt." www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
Trump's 50-year-mortgage proposal is just the start of his housing problems
Letting homebuyers opt for a longer mortgage won’t make any homes cheaper.
www.ms.now
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Instead of bringing down home prices themselves, Trump’s plan is to simply give people more options for taking on debt. And homebuyers who opt for the 50-year loan will take on considerably more debt." www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
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Although - YIKES with this part of the article. Self-driving cars following the speed limit is NOT A DOWNSIDE:
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Although - YIKES with this part of the article. Self-driving cars following the speed limit is NOT A DOWNSIDE:
Sounds like the conversation elided Musk's real accomplishment at DOGE, which was causing the deaths of millions of people.
Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Sounds like the conversation elided Musk's real accomplishment at DOGE, which was causing the deaths of millions of people.
"Instead of bringing down home prices themselves, Trump’s plan is to simply give people more options for taking on debt. And homebuyers who opt for the 50-year loan will take on considerably more debt." www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
Trump's 50-year-mortgage proposal is just the start of his housing problems
Letting homebuyers opt for a longer mortgage won’t make any homes cheaper.
www.ms.now
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Instead of bringing down home prices themselves, Trump’s plan is to simply give people more options for taking on debt. And homebuyers who opt for the 50-year loan will take on considerably more debt." www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
Coincidentally, I have a piece for @ms.now today on Trump's 50-year mortgage proposal and all the ways in which he's making the housing crisis worse. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Coincidentally, I have a piece for @ms.now today on Trump's 50-year mortgage proposal and all the ways in which he's making the housing crisis worse. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
imo Velshi should bring an actual housing policy expert on the show instead of elevating a demagogic crank like Stoller.
Home ownership is now out-of-reach for many Americans. @matthewstoller.bsky.social says that's because starter homes "don't exist anymore," and business and government have forgotten that "homes are for people to live in," not investments. #Velshi
Matt Stoller: How 'oligarchs' and 'extraction' fueled America's housing crisis
Home ownership is now out-of-reach for many Americans. “Homes are for people to live in,” says Matt Stoller of the American Economic Liberties Project, but he warns big landlords are "building homes for money, not people." President Trump claims to care about home affordability, but Stoller insists his administration is actually "on the side of oligarchs."
www.msnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
imo Velshi should bring an actual housing policy expert on the show instead of elevating a demagogic crank like Stoller.