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Alex Armlovich

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Alex Armlovich

@aarmlovi

Housing Program Officer @coeff_giving | Sr. Fellow @niskanencenter🏗️| Urban Econ 🌐🔰🚋 | @WorksInProgMag | Legalize housing. Tax land. End poverty with cash

Queens | DC

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Joined May 2009

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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Nov 6, 2025
New housing roadmap with @VitalCityNYC: -Tax foreclosure risks for ~100k rent regulated homes -Partial RGB freezes to end slumlording -Ballot measure fast tracks to fix & grow NYCHA -"Real" TOD upzoning -Leveraging a "secret" new funding source to build 2 or 3 new train lines(!)
Vital City
@VitalCityNYC
Nov 6, 2025
Replying to @VitalCityNYC
It's all here — with more on the way soon. vitalcitynyc.org/issues/issue-15
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Mar 16, 2025
Everyone who graduated undergrad in 2007-2012 just felt the hair go up on the back of their necks This is the PMC version of when every wild animal starts running away just before an earthquake
LindyMan
@PaulSkallas
Mar 15, 2025
I wonder why so many people want to go to Law School all of a sudden
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Apr 7, 2025
Wow that's a lot of bilateral trade negotiations to manage at once America should organize a "world trade organization" of some kind to handle dozens and dozens of US-led reciprocal tariff negotiations in one orderly forum
*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
Apr 7, 2025
HASSETT: MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES NEGOTIATING ON TARIFFS
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Sep 23, 2023
Disorienting that this is the one issue where *Americans* have developed a delicate social etiquette ritual with cultural nuance & social trust, & then it's *Europeans* who come in as the loud fat people laughing at low-income workers & stomping all over norms & good behavior
fka brecht apologist
@_madisontayt
Sep 21, 2023
these european bastards said “sorry we don’t tip”, laughed, and walked out. close the borders to europeans NOW.
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
May 14, 2022
"I oppose nuclear energy, we should build 100% solar" buddy, you're gonna be so mad when you find out where the sun gets all that energy
Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Jan 3, 2025
America's strongest Asian ally—a country whose constitution we wrote, whose military we control, and whose islands we have occupied with 55,000 troops & huge naval bases for 80 years—is a national security threat because they want to invest too much in saving our steel mills
Scott Lincicome
@scottlincicome
Jan 3, 2025
Here's the Nippon Steel order: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… Gotta love the mysterious, unstated "credible evidence"... that nobody actually believes. Looking forward to the lawsuits.
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Jun 3, 2025
Down with travel sports. No more hotel rooms, no more leaving the metro area. Sports used to be about community-building. Sports used to be about knowing your neighbor. Down with travel sports.
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Jan 4, 2025
NYT is softening every edge in the framing but this article is a bombshell Conclusive evidence that environmental scientists have been willing to use the ESA to knowingly invent "conservation species" and then (after passage in 1970) using the newly created NEPA to litigate
David Schleicher
@ProfSchleich
Jan 4, 2025
Wait, there is no such thing as a snail darter?!?!? @nicholas_bagley
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Sep 27, 2025
I almost feel bad for the "Balanced Literacy" lady who waged the academic war on phonics for 40 years Not just that Columbia closed your center in total disgrace...but having to live with the knowledge that your life's work ruined millions of childrens' lives 😬
Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Sep 25, 2025
wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Jan 14, 2025
Congestion pricing coverage is peak economics Every person is like, "I didn't used to bear the external costs of my behavior. But now that I do, I am adjusting along an infinite variety of least-cost adaptive margins that no central planner could have foreseen or designed"
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Oct 8, 2024
I have great sympathy for the victims of Helene who live inland & could not be expected to prep for hurricanes. I hope Congress acts quickly! But I also feel bad for taxpayers in, like, Detroit who will be expected to pay to rebuild this insanely dangerous hurricane playground
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Apr 4, 2025
We've really allowed the declinist narrative in America to get out of control
unseen1
@unseen1_unseen
Apr 3, 2025
The overreaction by the elites to the tariffs tells me they are completely out of touch with the avg American who have watched their economic lives be destroyed for the last 40 years.
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Jun 2, 2023
Remember: The reason you don't have access to affordable housing is because your local government simply doesn't want you to homedepot.com/p/Getaway-Pad-…
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Alex Armlovich
@aarmlovi
Nov 24, 2024
We've built entire metro areas where losing your car means you lose access to: -Your job -All groceries & retail -The doctor -All friends & family beyond your cul-de-sac This makes enforcing traffic law & insurance for the deadly high-speed metal boxes a high-stakes issue
Adam Francisco
@adamfrancisco_
Nov 23, 2024
Uninsured Kamala voter hits a car and then has an emotional breakdown when asked for her insurance.
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