Wyatt Gordon
@yitgordon.bsky.social
Fulbright Fellow looking for solutions to the housing crisis from Berlin 🇺🇸🏗️🏢🇩🇪
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Wyatt Gordon
@yitgordon.bsky.social
· Feb 17
You can find me in the Berliner @tagesspiegel.de today talking about the importance of building new housing and what more we can do to create new livable and affordable neighborhoods. 🏗️🏢
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
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Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
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This is sad news if they really go under. I just bought my first E-bike from Rad last year and have loved it so far. They were one of the earliest E-bike companies in the U.S. being founded in 2007 in Seattle, WA.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
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Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
Seattle-based Rad Power has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs over the last few years coming out of the pandemic. However, the company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to a...
techcrunch.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
This is sad news if they really go under. I just bought my first E-bike from Rad last year and have loved it so far. They were one of the earliest E-bike companies in the U.S. being founded in 2007 in Seattle, WA.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
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On this day in 1889, a white mob abducted 18-year-old Orion “Owen” Anderson from jail in Leesburg, Virginia, and lynched him for allegedly frightening a white girl.
Nov. 8, 1889 | Young Black Man Lynched for Allegedly Frightening White Girl in Virginia
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1889, a white mob abducted 18-year-old Orion “Owen” Anderson from jail in Leesburg, Virginia, and lynched him for allegedly frightening a white girl.
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Last night’s election was big for housing ⬇️
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate lost decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increases & develop 200k affordable units, won NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC passed.
—Housing funding measures passed in Columbus & Denver.
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate lost decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increases & develop 200k affordable units, won NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC passed.
—Housing funding measures passed in Columbus & Denver.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Last night’s election was big for housing ⬇️
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate lost decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increases & develop 200k affordable units, won NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC passed.
—Housing funding measures passed in Columbus & Denver.
—NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate lost decisively.
—Mamdani, promising to pause rent increases & develop 200k affordable units, won NYC decisively.
—All pro-housing referendums in NYC passed.
—Housing funding measures passed in Columbus & Denver.
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By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
www.economist.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
“The price tag for free buses is higher: $700-800 million. But in the context of a $116 billion New York City budget, that money can be found. And what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has said about buses is he wants them not only to be free but faster.” 🚌💨
Free for all: Zohran Mamdani’s New York
Podcast-Folge · Checks and Balance from The Economist · 31.10.2025 · Nur Abonnent:innen · 49 Min.
podcasts.apple.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“The price tag for free buses is higher: $700-800 million. But in the context of a $116 billion New York City budget, that money can be found. And what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has said about buses is he wants them not only to be free but faster.” 🚌💨
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Did my first century today riding the Capital Trail up and back.
#bicycling
#bicycling
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Did my first century today riding the Capital Trail up and back.
#bicycling
#bicycling
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"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.
Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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Tfw your region is so scenic you just have to prevent people from seeing it through train windows by wrapping all of them with pictures of it
October 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tfw your region is so scenic you just have to prevent people from seeing it through train windows by wrapping all of them with pictures of it
Every major bus route needs a dedicated bus lane. Dozens of people choosing the safer and more sustainable way to get around should not be held up by a few folks choosing to bring their private metal boxes downtown.
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Every major bus route needs a dedicated bus lane. Dozens of people choosing the safer and more sustainable way to get around should not be held up by a few folks choosing to bring their private metal boxes downtown.
A day of delivering bread in Berlin. 🍞
October 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A day of delivering bread in Berlin. 🍞
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Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.
3 of America’s Biggest Public Transit Systems Are Teetering on the Brink
Riders in Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area are staring down budget crises, with deep service cuts not far behind.
heatmap.news
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.
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US public transit has plenty of good-news stories! www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/mbta-bo...
How Boston transit leaders fixed a failing transit system
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority recovered from safety lapses that prompted the Federal Transit Administration to oversee the agency’s transit rail system in 2022.
www.smartcitiesdive.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
US public transit has plenty of good-news stories! www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/mbta-bo...
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Drives me nuts that things like bike lanes get painted as luxury goods or harbingers of gentrification when making it easy and convenient to get around your city by bike could save low-income households thousands of dollars a year.
One of the less discussed harms of car-centric planning is that it imposes a serious financial burden on working families. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Drives me nuts that things like bike lanes get painted as luxury goods or harbingers of gentrification when making it easy and convenient to get around your city by bike could save low-income households thousands of dollars a year.
Berlin’s Festival of Lights
October 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Berlin’s Festival of Lights
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Every year I write the same, slightly grimmer story
1 in 10 five years ago
1 in 9
1 in 8
1 in 7 New York public school students experienced homelessness last school year, a record high.
For @citylimitsnews.bsky.social I discuss the troubling rise
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1 in 10 five years ago
1 in 9
1 in 8
1 in 7 New York public school students experienced homelessness last school year, a record high.
For @citylimitsnews.bsky.social I discuss the troubling rise
buff.ly/ICwJLj3
October 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Every year I write the same, slightly grimmer story
1 in 10 five years ago
1 in 9
1 in 8
1 in 7 New York public school students experienced homelessness last school year, a record high.
For @citylimitsnews.bsky.social I discuss the troubling rise
buff.ly/ICwJLj3
1 in 10 five years ago
1 in 9
1 in 8
1 in 7 New York public school students experienced homelessness last school year, a record high.
For @citylimitsnews.bsky.social I discuss the troubling rise
buff.ly/ICwJLj3
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Today on Volts: You know what sucks? Cars. They screw up cities, degrade our health, make us mean & selfish, induce terrible public policy, on & on. I talk with Doug Gordon & Sarah Goodyear, hosts of the unapologetic @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast, about their new book & life after cars.
Yes, you weenies: a war on cars
Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon join me to discuss their new book and why a future with fewer cars is a happier one.
www.volts.wtf
October 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Today on Volts: You know what sucks? Cars. They screw up cities, degrade our health, make us mean & selfish, induce terrible public policy, on & on. I talk with Doug Gordon & Sarah Goodyear, hosts of the unapologetic @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast, about their new book & life after cars.
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This is very sad news. Eugene was a Charlottesville icon. Civil rights organizer. (He led he fight to desegregate the schools.) Affordable-housing innovator. Exceedingly generous to all with his time and, to the poor, his money. Successful businessman. A kind, loving man. We'll miss him terribly.
Eugene Williams, the local civil rights leader and affordable housing advocate, has died at 97. One of the last cover stories in The Hook was about Eugene Williams and his experience growing up in Jim Crow Charlottesville.
Read more: web.archive.org/web/20200815...
Read more: web.archive.org/web/20200815...
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is very sad news. Eugene was a Charlottesville icon. Civil rights organizer. (He led he fight to desegregate the schools.) Affordable-housing innovator. Exceedingly generous to all with his time and, to the poor, his money. Successful businessman. A kind, loving man. We'll miss him terribly.
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National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do
Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people
They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do
Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people
October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
National Guard deployment in DC is costing $1 million/day www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do
Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people
They’re there each time I step out of the Metro, idling in groups with nothing to do
Meanwhile, around the corner, people are sleeping on the street, nowhere else to go, as Trump cuts funding for homeless people
“Trump political appointees had made it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs, which involve investigating and prosecuting landlords, real estate agents, lenders and others who discriminate based on race, religion, gender, family status or disability.”
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“Trump political appointees had made it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs, which involve investigating and prosecuting landlords, real estate agents, lenders and others who discriminate based on race, religion, gender, family status or disability.”
“There are lots of grand things that we need to do around foreign and security policy, but we also are deeply worried that ordinary Germans are losing faith in the ability of politicians to get anything done, and top of that list is fixing the train.” 🚆 🇩🇪
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Can’t anyone get Germany’s trains to run on time?
The latest attempt to fix the pitiful performance of Deutsche Bahn
www.economist.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“There are lots of grand things that we need to do around foreign and security policy, but we also are deeply worried that ordinary Germans are losing faith in the ability of politicians to get anything done, and top of that list is fixing the train.” 🚆 🇩🇪
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
“Our train system is a question of democracy. People feel like nothing works anymore. The train system is viewed the same as the government. If I can’t rely on the train system, then the government isn’t doing its job.” 🚆 @zeit.de
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Wie die Bahn wieder pünktlich wird
Podcast-Folge · Das Thema · 20.08.2025 · 32 Min.
podcasts.apple.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“Our train system is a question of democracy. People feel like nothing works anymore. The train system is viewed the same as the government. If I can’t rely on the train system, then the government isn’t doing its job.” 🚆 @zeit.de
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/d...
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/d...
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Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States)
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www.datawrapper.de/_/27AUY/
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States)
www.datawrapper.de/_/27AUY/
www.datawrapper.de/_/27AUY/