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◥◤Kriston Capps
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Housing and design for @citylab. Opinions are my own. 🦋: kristoncapps 📸: kriston_capps 💌: [email protected]
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    Mar 3, 2022
    This is a story about Monarch, the fastest growing landlord in the Midwest. @sarahsholder and I tracked how Monarch uses evictions to squeeze tenants and spike rents — "popping the clutch," as Monarch's CEO puts it — even when evictions were banned.
    The Wolf of Main Street
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    Jul 26, 2024
    I hope that Paris Pitbull's name is French Bulldog
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    Jan 7, 2021
    As of 9:30 tonight, D.C. police had made 52 arrests. On June 1, during BLM protests following George Floyd's death, D.C. police made 289 arrests.
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    Apr 22, 2024
    Justice Elena Kagan: "For a homeless person who has no place to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public."
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    Apr 12, 2019
    New York State gerrymandered a map to qualify Hudson Yards for $1.6 billion in financing meant for low-income areas—by threading it to public housing in Harlem. (@CityLab obtained the map info through FOIA.) bit.ly/2U9uGit
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    Nov 14, 2019
    Easy-to-overlook provision in @AOC and @SenSanders's GND for public housing: It would repeal the Faircloth Amendment, which caps the number of public housing units at the level that existed in 1999. That's right. Building new public housing is illegal. bit.ly/32P0EEQ
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    Oct 9, 2020
    This latest thing, where Republicans refuse to get tested for coronavirus so they can continue to participate in debates or rallies or hearings, is so fundamentally indecent.
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    Apr 18, 2022
    Replying to @thecitywanderer
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    May 19, 2017
    Art Buchwald for the @latimes in 1973. The playbook hasn't changed.
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    Mar 12, 2019
    My first job an interview, an editor told me, “You seem nice, but kids from state school don’t get this job.”
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    Nov 7, 2020
    “Party in the USA”! This plaza is Bottomless Mimosa Brunch Square
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    Jan 13, 2025
    A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was built to withstand a wildfire, and it worked. I spoke with the architect who built the house about designing for disaster:
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    Jul 9, 2020
    Yglesias worked with researchers at Columbia to model the impact of Biden's universal housing vouchers. The program would cut the poverty rate by 22% and cut child poverty by 34% — and the Senate could pass it through budget reconciliation. That's huge!