Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
Economic Policy Institute @epi.org The working people's think tank for 40 years. Nonprofit + nonpartisan, we use the tools of economics to defend & promote workers' interests in economic policy discussions.
epi.org
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Federal Policy Watch: epi.org/policywatch
BUILD Research Network @buildssrc.bsky.social Connecting research and policy for better infrastructure decisions.
Funded by Arnold Ventures
A program of the Social Science Research Council
build.ssrc.org
Dave Jones @cadavejones.bsky.social Former financial regulator (CA Insurance Commissioner), current Director, UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy & Environment, Climate Risk Initiative. Posts are my own opinion.
Dan Farber @dfarber1950.bsky.social Law professor and director of Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at UC Berkeley
Nick Marantz @nmarantz.bsky.social Associate professor of urban planning & public policy at the University of California, Irvine. Land-use & environmental law, housing, transportation, state and local government.
Kelly Knight @kellyrayknight.bsky.social Medical Anthropologist @ University of California - San Francisco
Associate Director, Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative
Opioid Industry Document Archive
addicted.pregnant.poor
Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com Principal, Urban Research Advisors. Housing is important and we should build more of it. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him
Colleen Wynn @colleenewynn.bsky.social Sociologist and demographer studying housing, neighborhoods, and families. SoTL and community engaged research. She/her.
https://colleenewynn.com
Ricardo Tranjan @ricardotranjan.bsky.social Ontario Research Director & Senior Researcher on Housing and Social Policy @policyalternatives.ca, PhD. EN/FR/PT/ES. Author of The Tenant Class.
Hector Blanco @hectorblanco.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at Rutgers U.
Research: Public, Urban, Housing.
https://hector-blanco.github.io/
Cody Vaughn @codyvaughnn.bsky.social Sustainable Urbanist 🌇 | Specialty Coffee ☕️ | Hockey 🏒🦈 | SF 🌁 | He/Him 🏳️🌈
Stephen Elms @sjelms.com PhD candidate at UCL @thebartlettucl.bsky.social researching workforce training in construction. Previously, 20+ years in theater/performing arts. (he/him) https://linktr.ee/sjelms
Welcoming Neighbors Network @welcomingneighbors.us A network of local organizations working to fix the US housing shortage. Our members win pro-housing policy change. We can help you do the same. welcomingneighbors.us.
Thomas DeFranco @thomasdefranco.bsky.social Director of Policy @ SDHC
Geoff Boeing @geoffboeing.com Assoc Professor & Department Chair @USC
Nonresident Senior Fellow @Brookings
Web: https://geoffboeing.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gboeing
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
It’s Sean! @smartgrowthsean.bsky.social Environmental planner, transportation geek, CEQA expert, urban planning professor, sustainability minded, backyard farmer, focused on common sense solutions
Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social @Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest
Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy”
Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing
www.annaclark.net
Robert Goodspeed @rgoodspeed.bsky.social Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning @UMich. Dare to build urban scenarios! Writing a book about civic platforms. See📝 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QipNk0AAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Heising-Simons Foundation @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social Unlocking Knowledge, Opportunity, and Possibilities
Website: www.hsfoundation.org
Media Inquiries: DM or email communications@hsfoundation.org 
John Mollenkopf @jomoko.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center political science, sociology, Center for Urban Research. Race, ethnicity, immigration, urban politics, political geography and demography, New York in comparative perspective. Bicyclist, cook, sailor, explorer. Brooklynite.
Felicity M. Maxwell @cityjane.bsky.social >>Working to Expand Housing Access for All Texans
Executive Director, Texans For Housing ~ https://https://www.texansforhousing.org/
AURA Board member ~ https://aura-atx.org
Co-Chair, YIMBYtown 2024
Andrew Bowen (he/him) @acbowen.bsky.social KPBS reporter covering housing, transit and local politics in San Diego. Union shop steward. Creator and host of Freeway Exit, a podcast about freeways. Gaily homosexual.
I run @sdtrafficdeaths.bsky.social.
https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/freeway-exit
San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social Nonprofit news and investigative reporting for the San Francisco Bay Area — online and on air at KSFP 102.5 FM, KSFP.FM.
https://sfpublicpress.org
Newsletter > https://www.sfpublicpress.org/newsletter/
Donate > https://www.sfpublicpress.org/donate/
Clayton Collins @housingclayton.bsky.social CEO @ HousingWire
Housing News, Mortgage Expertise and Real Estate Data
Sarah Wheeler @sarahhw.bsky.social Editor in Chief at HousingWire. Obsessed with anything housing related. Host of the HousingWire Daily podcast.
Matt Gannon @mattygannon.bsky.social JD/PhD student at Harvard University and Yale Law School • I research housing insecurity and social mobility.
matthewtgannon.com
Frischplan @frischplan.bsky.social Urban planning + design prof, writes and thinks about cities, community development, LGBTQ communities, the environment, Kansas City MO, Col. Co, NY (New Lebanon), housing, synth-pop, Quaker (PVMM, IYM-c), non-violence, bicycles. 🏳️🌈 views are my own. 
Michael Andersen @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.
Sarah Karlinsky @skarlinsky.bsky.social I do housing stuff and read a lot of poetry by Matthew Zapruder. Posts are my own. 
Bryan Stuart @bryanstuart.bsky.social Economist in Philly. Research fellow at IZA. Interested in cities, labor markets, policy, etc. Views are my own. https://www.bryan-stuart.com
Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Natural Resources Law, Public Utility Regulation, Monopolies, Private Law Theory, Law and Technology PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Rowena Gray @econhistoryorbust.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics at UC Merced writing about New York City's housing affordability and learning urban economics 1 paper at a time.
Evan Roberts @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- J Jennifer Cortez @jennifercortez.bsky.social Reporter in the Coachella Valley for The Desert Sun 📰 desertsun.com
San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development @sfmohcd.bsky.social Supporting residents with affordable housing opportunities and essential services to build strong communities. Creating housing, preserving existing housing, protecting vulnerable residents, and empowering neighborhoods. https://linktr.ee/sfmohcd
Stefan Chavez-Norgaard @schaveznorgaard.bsky.social Teaching Asst. Prof. at Univ. of Denver's Josef Korbel School & Scrivner Inst of Public Policy. Fmrly Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center, Columbia GSAPP Urban Planning. Deep belief in real, popular democracy. Posts my own
Barry Zigas @barryzigas.bsky.social Long time affordable housing advocate and policy wonk. Proud grandfather, parent and husband living in San Francisco.
Urbanize LA @urbanizela.bsky.social Covering real estate, architecture and urban planning news in Los Angeles
Marianne Eppig @marianneep.bsky.social Senior Director of Resilience @ Urban Land Institute. Focused on climate resilience, sustainability, and creativity. Writing from Boulder, CO.
Data-Smart City Solutions @datasmartcities.bsky.social Highlighting cities solving problems and engaging communities with data. Directed by Stephen Goldsmith @goldsmithongov.bsky.social at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Listen: #DataSmartCityPod
https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/
National Association of Home Builders @nahb.bsky.social The National Association of Home Builders represents more than 140,000 members who build America's homes. Follow for housing news, policy advocacy, economics and economic indicators, and much more. nahb.org
Center for Law, Energy, & The Environment @cleeberkeley.bsky.social Channeling the expertise of the Berkeley Law community into pragmatic, creative policy solutions to critical environmental and energy challenges.
Website: https://linktr.ee/cleeberkeley
Brian Hanlon @hanlon.bsky.social I co-founded @cayimby.bsky.social to make California affordable and accessible for everyone.
Support pro-housing candidates: http://cayimbyvictoryfund.org
Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
https://chenoehart.com/
@poahcommunities.bsky.social @poahcommunities.bsky.social POAH's mission is to preserve, create and sustain affordable, healthy homes that support economic security and access to opportunity for all.
Sightline Institute @sightline.org Think tank cooking up nonpartisan policy research on housing, energy, climate, and democracy in Cascadia. 🧠🍳 Likes/follows ≠ endorsements.
Newsletters: sightline.org/signup
Lori Droste @loridroste.bsky.social I’m into the the 3 Ps—progress, politics, and policy 😉
Happily retired former Berkeley politician
Michael Lens @mc-lens.bsky.social Professor at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Michael Hoffman @leboncondorcet.bsky.social Chief Economist at the US GAO, providing the evidence base for economic policymaking in the public interest. Taught at American, PhD at Duke, undergrad at Michigan. Views my own.
Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social Housing finance + racial wealth equity research | public policy doctoral student at @priceschool.usc.edu | formerly at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Views (including WBB takes 🏀) my own.
The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com Jeff Wood is the host of the Talking Headways podcast and the publisher of The Overhead Wire daily newsletter. http://theoverheadwire.com
Sign up for our 20 year old daily newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/theoverheadwire/trial
Paul Lewis @p-g-lewis.bsky.social Researcher of urban policy & local government/politics. 1st-gen college grad. Not to be confused with other Paul Lewises (the journalist, the architect, the humor guy, the financial advisor, etc.). Skeets don't represent my employer.
Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org I am an advocate in the United States for infrastructure & transportation improvements which will save lives, for not just for the drivers of motor vehicles, but also the most vulnerable road users such as bicyclists, pedestrians and the disabled.
The Housing Partnership @housingpartnership.bsky.social We're a non-profit HUD-approved community housing organization offering homebuyer education and financial coaching. We administer deed-restricted affordable homes for 9 municipalities. Visit us at www.housingpartnershipnj.org for more information.
Innovations Institute @innovations-uconn.bsky.social Innovations Institute @ UConn SSW advances research-based, community centered, and transformative solutions for child-, youth-and family-serving public systems, and supports the workforce within these systems. https://innovations.socialwork.uconn.edu/
Regional Housing Legal Services @rhlspa.bsky.social A nonprofit law firm with unique expertise in affordable, sustainable housing and its related components (reposts do not indicate endorsement).
CSH (Corporation for Supportive Housing) @cshsolutions.bsky.social Advancing housing solutions that improve lives for the most vulnerable people, maximize public resources and build strong, healthy communities.
Great Homes and Neighborhoods for All @ghna-nj.bsky.social Everyone in NJ deserves an affordable place to live in a safe, vibrant community.
Tackling NJ's growing housing crisis, inadequate systems for land use/zoning, & the resulting racial, socioeconomic, & health inequities.
bit.ly/ghna_nj
ghna@njfuture.org
Northwest Fair Housing Alliance @nwfairhousing.bsky.social A full-service fair housing advocacy and education agency serving 17 counties in Eastern and Central Washington State.
Website: https://nwfairhouse.org/
Telephone: 509-325-2665 / 800-200-FAIR (3247)
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania @10000friendsofpa.bsky.social We support balanced land use, housing, and transportation policy in Pennsylvania. Home of bipartisan PA Housing Choices Coalition, advocates to reduce regulatory barriers to housing, increase supply where it makes sense and preserve affordable homes
Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate at UW-Madison studying poverty/inequality, with a focus on housing, race/ethnicity, social movements, and rural communities.
Max Vargas @maxvargas.bsky.social racial justice leader, philanthropist, policy wonk, attorney, public servant, 🇵🇪 immigrant, proud father of four
https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-vargas-96270052
Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law CLEE, author of Railtown (book on history of LA Metro Rail), and host of KALW’s State of the Bay.
Jarrett Walker @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.
Josh Cohen @jcohenwrites.bsky.social Housing reporter at Shelterforce Magazine @shelterforce.bsky.social, covering the YIMBY movement, housing policy, tenants rights and more. https://shelterforce.org/author/josh-cohen/
TNDC @tndc.bsky.social Nonprofit organization
We provide affordable housing and services for people with low incomes in San Francisco, to promote equitable access to opportunity and resources.
https://linktr.ee/tndcsf
Sarah Strochak @sarahstrochak.bsky.social Postdoc at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University; studying housing and poverty policy.
Incoming Assistant Professor of Poverty Policy at University of Wisconsin, Madison (Fall 2026)
PhD NYU Wagner/NYU Furman Center
Up for Growth Action @upforgrowthaction.bsky.social Up for Growth Action® is the only U.S. organization singularly focused on leading federal legislation to eliminate barriers and increase resources for housing production. Learn more at https://upforgrowth.org/up-for-growth-action/
Rep. Sam Liccardo @liccardo.house.gov Recovering San José Mayor | Jessica’s husband | Cycling 🚲 Geek | Congressman for CA-16 | All sarcastic posts are my own.
Packard Foundation @packardfdn.bsky.social We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Milken Institute @milkeninstitute.org Catalyzing Solutions. Building Meaningful Lives. #MIGlobal milkeninstitute.org
NCRC @justeconomy.bsky.social The National Community Reinvestment Coalition creates opportunities for people to build wealth. We champion fairness in banking, housing & business. #JustEconomy
Jesse Van Tol @jessevantol.bsky.social CEO @NCRC. Advocate & organizer for race & class equity in banking, housing, business. Memphis to Madison to DC. Minority owner of the Green Bay Packers
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Grounded Solutions Network @groundedsolutions.bsky.social Our mission is to advance housing solutions that are equitable, inclusive, rich in opportunity, cultivate communities, and last for generations.
Power Station @powerstation.bsky.social I host Power Station, a podcast that amplifies the experiences and stories of nonprofit leaders and organizations at the front line of progressive change making.
You can find ALL episodes at http://powerstation.live
Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social The Los Angeles vanguard of the Streetsblog publishing empire https://la.streetsblog.org/
UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies @uclaits.bsky.social Research That Moves Us
Advancing research, education and civic engagement on the many pressing transportation issues facing our cities, state, nation and world today.
MTC Bay Area @mtcbata.bsky.social Official account for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
We plan in order to keep the Bay Area moving
🚊🚎🚘🚲🚸⛴
https://mtc.one/bio
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Streetsblog California @streetsblogca.bsky.social 
Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org Covering the movement to end car dependency and make America better for walking, biking, transit and more. 
WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities @wrirosscities.bsky.social Helping cities make big ideas happen. A program of
@worldresources.bsky.social. Producer of http://TheCityFix.org. Home of #PrizeForCities.
Greg Morrow @gregmorrow.bsky.social Faculty Director, Real Estate Development + Design; Associate Professor of Practice, Architecture, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Views are mine.
Jared Brey @jaredbrey.bsky.social Philadelphia-based reporter covering transportation and infrastructure for Governing. Contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine. Email: jaredbrey@gmail.com.
Karen Kubey @karenkubey.bsky.social Houser; editor, 'Housing as Intervention' @AD_books; Assistant Professor @UofTDaniels. Previous: Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Buenos Aires; ED @the_IPArch.
Upjohn Institute @upjohninstitute.bsky.social The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is a nonpartisan, independent research organization, founded in 1945 to study policy-related employment issues and to implement workforce solutions. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. https://www.upjohn.org/
The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com Fearless storytelling, independent critical voices and thought-provoking architecture from around the world since 1896, in a print magazine and online
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. LA Podcast co-host, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him.
Email: ben.casselman@nytimes.com
Signal: @bencasselman.96
📸: Earl Wilson/NYT 
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Western Center on Law & Poverty @westerncenter.bsky.social Fighting poverty in California. Advancing economic & racial justice. Advocating & litigating for change.
LINKTREE: https://linkin.bio/western_center/
Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social Investigative and policy reporter at Remapping Debate. Previously at CityLab, SF Examiner. Author of "The Unfinished Metropolis": https://shorturl.at/PInVb
Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social Build Housing-Protect All Workers-Organize
Construction labor union research analyst and campaigner since 2003. Research finds that union membership, collective bargaining & quality jobs are good for people and society, actually. Now covering CA, OR, & WA!
Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social CA State Assemblymember from the beautiful East Bay, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, mom of 2 fierce little girls.
https://lnk.bio/BuffyWicks
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation @ebaldc.bsky.social Largest nonprofit affordable housing provider in Oakland, CA
Largest nonprofit commercial landlord in the East Bay
50 years. 2500 homes. 4000 residents. 114 small businesses and non-profits
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Supporting AI tools and resources to accelerate discoveries in science and transform learning at @biohub.org and Learning Commons.