Emily Badger
New York Times writer covering urban policy for @UpshotNYT. Outdoor lover. emily.badger [at] nytimes.com
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Trump's Homeless Policy Gets a Controversial Boss
The White House's new homelessness czar, Robert Marbut Jr., promotes a punitive model for providing homeless services.
Inside the Private Moments of Impeachment
Members of the House granted The New York Times rare access to photograph their impeachment preparations.
Emily Badger
Phenomenal behind-the-scenes photos of Congress as it considers impeachment by @erinschaff
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Many Renters Who Face Eviction Owe Less Than $600
Can Washington do something to help them? A growing number of politicians think so.
Emily Badger
Many renters who face eviction owe less than $600.
Are those cases avoidable?
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Bloomberg Media Makes First Acquisition in 10 Years
They obtained CityLab from The Atlantic.
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Emily Badger
Wow, Bloomberg is acquiring CityLab.
I hope they keep and invest in its special brand of nerdy-curious-devoted urban coverage.
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The story behind Amazon’s failed $1 million bid to swing Seattle’s election
The tech giant had its eyes on winning all seven races. Instead, it won just two.
In U.K. Vote, Online Disinformation Is the New Normal
Foreign meddling was once the most feared source of online deception before critical elections. Now, some candidates themselves are turning to such manipulative tactics.
SF is one of the most expensive places in the world to build housing. Here's why
San Francisco is struggling with a herculean task: creating as much housing as possible to make up for decades of underproduction. But the enormous cost of building in the city has meant developers can’t create nearly enough affordable or...
Association of Receipt of Housing Vouchers With Subsequent Hospital Utilization and Spending
This exploratory analysis of data from the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program, a HUD-sponsored social experiment that randomized public housing families to receive a restricted (low-poverty) vs unrestricted (Section 8)...
Emily Badger
New research linking MTO families to medical data shows that young children in households that received housing vouchers had lower rates of hospitalization and less medical spending.
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A visionary plan to rid SF's Market Street of cars - in 1963. Sound familiar?
San Francisco’s 1963 downtown plan called for a car-free Market Street, but business leaders had different ideas. Now, the city’s Better Market Street makes room for buses and bicycles at the expense of automobiles — a sobering reminder of how long...
House Votes to Bolster Voting Rights Over Near Unanimous Republican Opposition
The legislation restores the core of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights statute to guard against racial discrimination in elections.
Emily Badger
Seems like presidential candidates who would talk a lot about this could... attract African-American voters.
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An Influential City Panel Wants New Private Buildings to Provide Space for Homeless Camping
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Emily Badger
Wow, Portland Ore officials are considering a requirement that developers include spaces where the homeless could rest — and pitch tents.
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Facadism: When Walls Talk, and Lie
Facadism, the act of building a new structure behind an old facade, sounds trivial, or altruistic. However, it presents deep financial and architectural issues.
Emily Badger
The examples in this story are particularly awful, but as a pedestrian I actually appreciate some of the new development retaining historic facades around DC
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Men Say They Want Paid Leave but Then Don’t Use All of It. What Stops Them?
When balancing work and family becomes difficult, women tend to resort to caregiving and men to earning money.
Wilpons in Talks to Sell Majority of Mets to Steve Cohen
The deal with Cohen, the billionaire hedge fund manager, would keep Fred Wilpon, the controlling owner, and Jeff Wilpon, the chief operating officer, in their positions for five years.
As other states take on housing crunch, Mass. still stands pat - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, long considered a progressive state, measures that aim to ease restrictions on construction and blunt some of the nation’s highest housing costs have gone nowhere.
America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions
The weapons are notorious for their effects on civilians. But five years of reporting and hundreds of interviews have revealed they’ve also killed and wounded scores of Americans.
See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s
From the Bay Area to New Delhi, explore air pollution around the world.
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Emily Badger
Really neat and alarming visualization of air quality in U.S. cities compared to the world's most polluted places
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How Far Can Cities Go to Police the Homeless? Boise Tests the Limit
A decade-old legal fight shapes a mayoral race and offers the Supreme Court a chance to weigh in.
Why the Less Disruptive Health Care Option Could Be Plenty Disruptive
Democrats like the “optional” part of the so-called public option. But the very existence of new government insurance could shake up the system.
Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City
For most people, it’s the click that brings a package to their door. But a look at Baltimore shows how Amazon may now reach into Americans’ daily existence in more ways than any corporation in history.
Emily Badger
This @ScottShaneNYT story examining Amazon's footprint in just one American city is so smart: nytimes.com/2019/11/30/bus… pic.twitter.com/BN71cOjUpr
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