Urban policy researchers and writers
When these people post links to their work on urban policy, I always click — emphasis on housing
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@zyudhishthu.bsky.social
@econhist-allday.bsky.social
Economic historian of U.S. cities. Interested in segregation, land use regulation, and affordability over the long run. Views expressed here are my own. Personal website at allisonshertzer.com.
@jonathanmaus.bsky.social
Father of four: 3 kids and BikePortland. https://bsky.app/profile/bikeportland.bsky.social 🚲🚲 North Portlander. Roosevelt HS 7th Grade Boys Basketball Coach. 🏀🏀
@kevinerdmann.bsky.social
I discovered the surprising story of what really happened in 2008 (not enough housing) and accidentally became a housing policy guy. https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Erdmann/author/B099P7SN1G
@seanjurs.bsky.social
Architect, housing advocate, and Emergent Ventures grant recipient
@westnorth.com
Card-carrying urbanist since 1998; housing developer, author, museum docent, board member, single-issue #climate voter. Opine solely for myself. Ex-CHI, BOS, RDU 🚄🚋🚴♂️🌇🏗️🚰🏳️🌈 Words @ggwash.org @citybuilder.bsky.social
@studonovan.bsky.social
Economist researching cities, transport, housing, & energy. I focus on New Zealand & Australia, with European dalliances. And some chaff.
@hatethegamebook.com
Author and Chief Economist at Redfin. Pre-order my book Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work out April 11 HateTheGameBook.com
@citizen-cate.bsky.social
Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.
@henrygrabar.bsky.social
staff writer @slate, author of Paved Paradise, editor of The Future of Transportation, Loeb Fellow '24 henry at grabar at slate dot com
@alonlevy.bsky.social
Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy alon@pedestrianobservations.com @alon@mastodon.social
@humantransit.bsky.social
Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
@jblumgart.bsky.social
Reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer https://www.inquirer.com/author/blumgart_jake/
@mnolangray.bsky.social
the once and future city planner // legislative director for california yimby // AICP // proud kentuckian // #BBN // buy my book ❤
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. Co-host LA Podcast, episodes weekly at thelapod.com. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/ Roosevelt Institute Fellow, EQ Collaborative Member Working on a book about cities for Island Press and blogging occasionally at http://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/ ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
@jgrantglover.bsky.social
Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
@alexhrwtz.bsky.social
Mostly housing policy and a little consumer finance at Pew. Personal account.
@thecitywanderer.bsky.social
Writing about financial markets for @risk.net, and occasionally other things. recovering real estate and architecture reporter. bike girl about town
@holz-bau.bsky.social
architect @ Larchlab.com (Seattle) activist for: car-light climate adaptive cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
@stephenjacobsmith.com
Executive director of the Center for Building in North America, stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
@ndhapple.bsky.social
Words in Streetsblog. Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp. On Mastadon: journa.host/@ndhapple
@davidzipper.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ MIT Mobility Initiative and Contributing Writer @ Vox, focused on transport, cities and tech. Words in The Atlantic, CityLab, WaPo, etc. https://linktr.ee/davidzipper Newsletter, speaking, writing and advisory work: http://davidzipper.com
@timbartik.bsky.social
Senior Economist at Upjohn Institute, fan of "place-based policies" (or at least some of them!). https://www.upjohn.org/about/upjohn-team/staff/timothy-j-bartik
@alexschief.bsky.social
Mpls Ped/Bike Coordinator. Cold weather apologist. Sports appreciator. Cookie enthusiast. State capacity booster. Opinions do not represent those of the City.
@tonydamiano.bsky.social
B+ dad and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Golden Eagles too
@snmarkley.bsky.social
Studying racially uneven sub/urban development with GIS, maps, #rstats, #rspatial https://scottnmarkley.github.io
@trounstine.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Author of Segregation by Design and Political Monopolies in American Cities. 2022 Carnegie Fellow.
@hankinson.bsky.social
Political Scientist at George Washington University. Fellow at Princeton CSDP www.mhankinson.com
@jrothst.bsky.social
Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
@jensvb.bsky.social
Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist. 📍Vancouver, BC
@jennyschuetz.bsky.social
Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
@housingmark.bsky.social
housing policy consultant, attorney (barely), USC Kaufman dad, former LIHTC allocator, UNC-CH x3 alum & adjunct professor, sweet tea & hushpuppy connoisseur
@stano.bsky.social
Public Policy @ Tulane ➡️ UC Riverside, Fall 2025 | Build 🏠 & Reform 🏛️ | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi New Orleans, LA stanokl.github.io
@danimmergluck.bsky.social
Principal, Applied & Policy Research Advisement (APRA) Professor Emeritus, Public Policy & Urban Studies, Georgia State Affordable & Fair Housing, Cities, Community Development CHI-->ATL-->CHI Opinions my own More info at: https://tinyurl.com/3n9py4us
@dpherriges.bsky.social
Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.
@danielkayhertz.bsky.social
Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Department of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. 🍝& 🚌
@dpearsonphl.bsky.social
I’m an editorial writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer focused on urban policy-transit, housing, and planning
@yonahfreemark.com
Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
@conordougherty.bsky.social
NYT Reporter, #SkateTwitter enthusiast and @candacej superfan.
@pewilliams.bsky.social
Executive director, Center for Public Enterprise (publicenterprise.org) Brooklyn, NY
@katewagner.bsky.social
architecture critic @thenation.com, creator of https://late-review.com, derailleur.net, mcmansionhell.com. Nicht bringst du Unheil dahin, wo Unheil im Hause wohnt. she/her
@evanrobertsnz.bsky.social
Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places
@evarosen.bsky.social
Sociologist, urbanist, ethnographer, prof of public policy at Georgetown, author of The Voucher Promise https://bit.ly/2Bz1EoA
@shanedphillips.bsky.social
Housing guy. Researcher at UCLA Lewis Center, host of UCLA Housing Voice Podcast, author of The Affordable City, resident of Los Angeles.
@jakeanbinder.bsky.social
Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
@jasonbarr.bsky.social
Economist at Rutgers University-Newark. Fellow at NYU Marron Institute. Author of #BuildingtheSkyline, #Skynomics Blog and #CitiesintheSkyBook (Scribner Books). https://jasonmbarr.com
@dlknowles.bsky.social
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC. Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV Reach me on Signal: dlknowles.12
@calculatedrisk.bsky.social
Author of Calculated Risk economics blog. https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/ Real Estate Newsletter at http://calculatedrisk.substack.com
@jakesteinberg.com
🗺️ 📊 🗞️ Maps and visual stories for @startribune.com Prevs: WSJ Graphics, UW-Madison cartography, reporter in Arizona www.jakesteinberg.com
@frederickmelo.bsky.social
A Boston transplant turned longtime City Hall/urban news reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota (twincities.com) but my true claim to fame is I wrote this 3-part comic book: https://fredmelosupervillains.thecomicseries.com
@gregshill.com
Professor, University of Iowa College of Law • Student of firms, cities & transportation • Papers: ssrn.com/author=887547 • Newsletter: gregshill.substack.com • Co-host of Densely Speaking podcast • gregshill.com
@noahkazis.bsky.social
Ass't professor at Michigan Law. Formerly NYU Furman Center, NYC Law Department, Streetsblog NYC. Cities, suburbs, housing and transportation.
@kateontransport.bsky.social
Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
@royalpratt.bsky.social
Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, City Hall. Little Village raised. Proud Tribune Guild. I'm just trying to make my city a better place. Author: "The City is Up for Grabs."
@christianb.bsky.social
Reporter at Reason Magazine covering urbanism, property rights, and occasionally heavy metal. Sign up for my housing newsletter! https://reason.com/newsletters/rent-free/
@josephpolitano.bsky.social
Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io Nuance? In this Economy Perpetually awaiting that “trade deal” with Japan |
@hpan3.bsky.social
They/佢/他 • Finding my way and making sure you do too • Have written but not as much these days • MSP :: SFC LINK TO STORIES: linktr.ee/hpan3 ALL POSTS REP MY VIEWS AND MINE ALONE
@blindeke.bsky.social
Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
@jerusalem.bsky.social
yes, like the city | staff writer at The Atlantic | Host of the Good on Paper podcast | she/her
@jeffrlin.bsky.social
Economist studying cities, regions, and growth. West Philly dad. Views are my own. https://jlin.org/
@andersem.bsky.social
Believer, skeptic, humanist, typist & dad. Trying to make places fairer as director of cities + towns for @Sightline.org, here in Portland OR. Views here: mine, all mine.
@rachelmcohen.bsky.social
Vox reporter - covering family policy + politics trying to prod productively
@arpitrage.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern Newsletter: arpitrage.substack.com Website: arpitgupta.info
@zyudhishthu.bsky.social
Sidewalk enthusiast and former St. Paulite. I like to write about housing policy, especially in the Twin Cities. Nowadays I’m an economics research assistant in Chicago https://pencillingout.substack.com/