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Mar 18, 2020

Here is the final version of

@CSSNYorg

's analysis of the Democratic presidential candidates' housing platforms and their effect on New York City. We compare Biden and Sanders and also bring back all the former candidates for context.cssny.org/news/entry/how

katie goldstein

@katiegoldstein2

Jul 19, 2020

Honored the life & legacy of Tom Waters

, lost to COVID, by taking a walk while many others took walks to remember him yesterday. Can’t wait to be in a dark bar with weird music with the whole tenant movement someday to honor him.

our members are asking you to define "home" because 92K New Yorkers are homeless and you are demanding they #StayHome during #COVID19. You say: #PublicHealth before the #economy. Whose #health?

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VOCAL-NY

@VOCALNewYork

Why we yell and scream “HOUSING SAVES LIVES” @NYGovCuomo & @NYCMayor’s policing of poor people and failure to deal with the homelessness crisis is the backdrop to this public health crisis. Act now, center the most vulnerable, or more will die. #HomelessCantStayHome twitter.com/NYDailyNews/st…

piedpipertheatre

@PPCTINWOOD

Mar 28, 2020

Pied Piper's cast of Once Upon a Mattress doing a virtual run-through now, in celebration of what should have been our opening night!

Dan Threet

@DanThreet

Says something about this week that a 15-hour opera that ends with a cataclysmic cleansing fire is a welcome distraction

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Metropolitan Opera

@MetOpera

1/ Wagner’s Ring reaches its thunderous conclusion with tonight’s Nightly Met Opera Stream of Götterdämmerung, recorded live in 2012. Available tonight, March 27, starting at 7:30PM EDT until tomorrow, March 28, at 6:30PM EDT. Watch: bit.ly/2xzA74r

Ken Howard

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This is great. I hope the RGB staff is able to publish its excellent research anyway, though.

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Jeff Mays

@JeffCMays

#NYC wants to suspend rent guidelines process and create a #rentfreeze for rent stabilized apartments and new leases in light of the #coronavirus says @NYCMayor

Oksana

@OksanaMironov

this, as I observed after 9/11 + after the financial crash + after Sandy + now this. i suspect that the collapse of social order canard comes from a particular view of society that privileges policing + carceral solutions. twitter.com/dgardner/statu

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piedpipertheatre

@PPCTINWOOD

Tonight would have been our opening night for Once Upon a Mattress. Very disappointed, but PPCT is confident that we will all get through this together, and we look forward to still performing the show for our fantastic WaHi/Inwood community in the near-future! Stay healthy!

Jamila Michener

@povertyscholar

How responding to the new coronavirus is making the safety net for gig workers less flimsy

A personally hard part of this pandemic has been watching my brother, who drives Uber full time in NYC, struggle to decide whether to keep working & how to survive financially. I wrote this piece about him, the safety net & how gig workers fare in all this

theconversation.com

A scholar of the American safety net explains how, through her own brother, she’s getting a personal window into what it means to face COVID-19 as a worker in the gig economy.

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Steve Berg

@sberg0

Convince your state and local leaders that helping people keep their homes and not become homeless is an excellent use of this money. The scale is there

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Center on Budget

@CenterOnBudget

The bipartisan Senate #StimulusPackage contains a $150 billion #Coronavirus Relief Fund, which state, tribal, & local governments can use this year to meet costs connected to #COVID19. How much does your state get? We got the numbers. cbpp.org/research/how-m

FREDERICK WISEMAN: THE DIRECTOR WHO MAKES THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY

This says he just finished a movie about Boston City Hall!

pleasekillme.com

At age 90, Frederick Wiseman is one of those living American masters who would, in a better world, need no introduction. And yet, as a pioneer of documentary filmmaking, he has often worked on the

Brian Wilson

@BrianWilsonLive

Literally, the master tapes. #1966 #petsounds #master #godonlyknows

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Our members are worried about what will happen come April 1st when #Rent is due and there is no #PayCheck! Your silence on #RentRelief is making this difficult situation worse for millions of #NewYorkers!

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Housing Justice For All

@housing4allNY

Clayton from @VOCALNewYork continued: "@NYgovCuomo could change the course of this crisis in an instant. There are more billionaires in this state than any other. Why aren't we taxing them for emergency housing and services? Cuomo is ignoring the homeless, he is no hero."

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Community Service Society of New York (CSS)

@CSSNYorg

RentJusticeCoalition and 8 others

It is not safe for the RGB to hold public hearings during a pandemic. Stabilized tenants need a rent freeze in 2020! #DeBlasioFreezeRent #RentFreeze2020 #CancelRGBVOTE

Housing Justice For All

@housing4allNY

April 1st is 6 Days Away. The State Budget is Due in 6 Days. The Rent is Due in 6 days. What's the plan for homeless New Yorkers? What's the plan for public housing residents? What's the plan for tenants?

@NYGovCuomo

@AndreaSCousins

@CarlHeastie

Dr. Sara Patenaude

@sdpatenaude

Towards an Emergency Housing Response to COVID-19 in Georgia

Have you read this excellent set of policy recommendations to address the effects the pandemic will have on housing stability during and after this crisis?? Thank you

@EloraRaymond

@DanImmergluck

et. al.

medium.com

Elora Raymond, PhD School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ted Reichman

@EarlyNothing

Cecil Taylor’s Education & Student Writings

Deeply impressive article on Cecil Taylor

allan-chase.com

About twenty years ago, when I was in my fourth year as chair of the jazz studies program at New England Conservatory as NEC celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its jazz program, NEC staff writ…

Judy Solomon

@JudySolomonCT

Good news: Final bill preserves the strong Medicaid “maintenance of effort” provision in the bipartisan Families First Act. Without it, hundreds of thousands of people could have lost #Medicaid during the public health crisis.

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In Coronavirus, the U.S. Faces a Problem It Can’t Fix by Segregation

"Since the 1970s, the United States has relied on one primary strategy to deal with poverty, pollution, and various other social problems and challenges: quarantine."

bloomberg.com

For decades, the U.S. has used spatial barricades to isolate advantaged people from serious social ills. To defeat Covid-19, that won’t work.

Jeff Jackson

@DeathofLit

Happy birthday, Cecil Taylor. “Practice, to be studious at the instrument, as well as looking at a bridge, or dancing, or writing a poem, or reading, or attempting to make your home more beautiful. What goes into an improvisation is what goes into one's preparation."

Our analysis from

is out and the numbers are gut-wrenchingly awful. #FreeThemNow

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Washington Heights represent!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens

@PP_Rubens

Humble Virgin Mary, sitting on the floor at home, her reading interrupted by arrival of an angel she is trying hard to ignore. From the Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, 1430, for the feast day of the Annunciation.

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This is as good as "My Girl."

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Richard Nelson

@Richard36971987

Horned Grebes Central Park Reservoir 03/22/20 While the female Horned Grebe was an exciting "lifer" for me, I could never match the enthusiasm the male Horned Grebe expressed! @BirdCentralPark

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Michael Busch

@michaelkbusch

Reading Wole Soyinka’s "Madmen and Specialists" in a Time of Pandemic

Excellent new piece up at

@Warscapes

@joonhai

on the value of reading Wole Soyinka’s “Madmen and Specialists” amidst the #COVIDー19 crisis

warscapes.com

Can African literature offer a sense of guidance through the current pandemic of COVID-19? Articles have circulated online about “pandemic literature” and the “pandemic imagination,” with the usual

Stephen La Rivière

@la_riviere

Pre-lockdown and post-lockdown.

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Giselle Routhier, PhD

THIS!

@NYCSpeakerCoJo

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Kelly Doran MD MHS

@KellyMDoran

NYP-Columbia ED docs @NickGavinMD & colleagues on why we need urgent action for homeless New Yorkers now. @NYCMayor @NYCDHS @GNYHA @NYCHealthSystem nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope

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This is all wonderful. Glad to see such a large amount of CDBG to be used as rental assistance. We will need that along with the ESG to keep and get people housed. My CPD colleagues are going to be buuuusy.

Beth Popp Berman @epopp@mastodon.social

@epopppp

Great thread on poor use of research to inform policy by UK Nudge Unit. Reminds me of weak research used to justify US welfare reform in the 1990s, when a lot of people really wanted to believe that "just get recipients *any* job" was the answer. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/magic-

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Sophie Hill

@sophie_e_hill

The goal of this intervention is to increase "off-flow". Basically to try to get people to stop claiming jobseekers benefit as quickly as possible. (Note: they are not measuring transitions into work, just when people stop claiming the benefit...)

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Thank you

for organizing for a much better housing response. Now our work begins.

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Diane Yentel

@dianeyentel

Final deal!

$4 billion in Emergency Solutions Grants to assist homeless shelters and outreach workers keep people who are homeless safer from coronavirus.

$5B in CDBG, can be used for rental assistance

Public Housing: $685M (Thread)

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The next installment needs to include money for emergency rent relief.

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Edward Ubiera

@EUbiera_NYC

A $2 Trillion Lifeline Will Help, but More May Be Needed nyti.ms/3bnuNzU

Tom Scocca

@tomscocca

Yep newrepublic.com/article/157044

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Diane Yentel

@dianeyentel

🚨Final deal! ✅ $4 billion in Emergency Solutions Grants to assist homeless shelters and outreach workers keep people who are homeless safer from coronavirus. ✅ $5B in CDBG, can be used for rental assistance ✅ Public Housing: $685M (Thread)

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The pandemic economic package doesn't directly address the need for relief for tenants who can't pay their rent due to the crisis, but it does contain funds that could be used for that purpose -- a start.

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Diane Yentel

@dianeyentel

Replying to @OksanaMironov

Some CDBG can be used for that, so can $150B grants for states/localities. Expanded UI meant to help others. More is needed.

Jake M. Grumbach

@JakeMGrumbach

Another reason American federalism is bad is that it gives big responsibility to governments that lack the tools of monetary policy

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Amy Liu

@amy_liuw

So it begins. OH gov is calling for 20 percent across-the-board budget cuts due to anticipated revenue shortfalls and increased spending. cleveland.com/coronavirus/20

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Housing Policy Must Change in Wake of COVID-19

From

: Make housing assistance a fundamental tenet of our social safety net

shelterforce.org

COVID-19 will hurt the low-income and housing insecure the most. We must act now to protect them—and ensure safe housing for all going forward. Here's how.

Alex Ross

@alexrossmusic

WE'RE LIVE!! The performance will begin around 7:35 pm ET The...

Conrad Tao is about to play Rzewski's The People United at home.

facebook.com

25K views, 297 likes, 210 loves, 188 comments, 176 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from 92nd Street Y: WE'RE LIVE!! The performance will begin around 7:35 pm ET The phenomenal pianist Conrad Tao...

Jorge E. Cuéllar

@infrapolitics

“I denounce especially the absolutizing of wealth. This is the great evil in El Salvador: wealth, private property, as an untouchable absolute. Woe to the one who touches that high tension wire. It burns.” — Óscar Romero, 08/12/1979

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Jake M. Grumbach

@JakeMGrumbach

New-Bell (Hard Pulsation)

Lost a sax legend to COVID-19 today. 1972 Afrobeat-jazz #SongOfTheDay outta Cameroon. First track on the classic Soul Makossa album, which every music head should own. Sampled by Busta Rhymes and others. Manu Dibango - "New Bell (Hard Pulsation)"

youtube.com

Provided to YouTube by MRCNew-Bell (Hard Pulsation) · Manu DibangoSoul Makossa℗ 1972 FiestaReleased on: 1972-07-01Auto-generated by YouTube.

The Legal Aid Society

@LegalAidNYC