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  • There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus

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    Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one. Source: There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus

  • The Return of Public Housing

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    Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor

  • Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes

    Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes

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    Mr. Mayor: Thank you for finally doing something to help house the homeless people around the Plaza. It’s gone out of control, with rents rising, and whatnot. People don’t think it’s a big deal to live out of a tent or their car, anymore. That’s where we’re at, as a city and country, and I…

  • Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword

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    nemu98 asked on reddit: Why is the anglosphere so focused on race? 2025-09-16 The British Empire implemented racism in colonizing Ireland, and then applied it everywhere, to create a hierarchy of ethnic groups or races, with their white people at the top. If caste was available, they used caste. (Gershon, Britain’s Blueprint for Colonialism: Made…

  • Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants

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    Source: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants I found that article on an aggreagtor, and replied to it, rather than the original.  So I posted the response here, figuring it wouldn’t get approved. I then found the original, and looked at the comment section. Zerohedge commenters are a bunch of libertarians…

  • On the Precipice of Another Great Depression

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    As we stand on the precipice of the cliff overlooking another Great Depression, we need to consider that the Depression wasn’t only rough on the working class. It was also a period of extreme racism, not only by people to each other, but by the government against communities of color. As the government started to…

  • USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement

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    Another brick in the fascist wall that Trump is building.  The mission statement of the USCIS has change to become an anti-immigration agency. Source: U.S. agency’s new mission statement: America no longer a ‘nation of immigrants’

  • The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent

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    https://twitter.com/tsengputterman/status/966103266491846660 This Conor F. is part of *the* *press*. He writes for The Atlantic, which is a liberal magazine/website. He should know better, or someone there should be schooling him. He doesn’t know that Asian people were denied a path to citizenship from 1868 to 1952 century. Eighty-four.  84 years of (at least some) immigrants…

  • Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism

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    This feels like a good snapshot of why so many organizations are uniting against SB 827, the upzoning law that gives away a lot of value to landowners and developers, without capturing that value, and without protecting tenants. via The Most Dangerous Myth I’m also looking into the history of property ownership by people of…

  • Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links

    Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links

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    This page is a summary of research conducted to understand the movement for rent control in Long Beach.  Long Beach is large city with around 60% renters, located in LA County adjacent to Orange County.  It’s long been a conservative/centrist city government, but has shifted more liberal in the past couple decades.  The downtown area…