mike leyba @mikeleyba

Chicano futurist, mapmaker and legend teller 🍉🍉 Boston, MA Joined January 2009

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Billy Fleming @JooBilly

3 months ago

The Abundance book would carry far more weight if its leading proponents weren't in the press pushing a recycled ecomodernist version of it every week instead of acknowledging the central role that state capacity + public ownership played in the GND/climate movement for a decade.

Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social @aldatweets

3 months ago

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Mark Martinez @yo_era_mark

5 months ago

In case you were wondering, this is the “lower cost” housing our tax dollars are subsidizing.

Governor Maura Healey @MassGovernor

5 months ago

In case you were wondering, this is the “lower cost” housing our tax dollars are subsidizing. https://t.co/L0UP3E97hX

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani

6 months ago

The Mamdani campaign released the following statement: “This is us while fasting.”

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Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn

8 months ago

Ok tenants, let’s get ready. Here’s the plan: 1. You and your neighbors need to meet every month to discuss 1) what’s going on in the building 2) any issues any tenant there is having (repairs, rent). Yes. This is the start of a tenant union.

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Fund for Housing and Opportunity @HsgOpportunity

8 months ago

Last night, the OMB issued a directive to halt critical federal assistance funding. It goes beyond political posturing—it is a far-reaching, insidious attack on the supports millions rely on to make ends meet. housingisopportunity.org/post/fho-respo…

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Feminist City @feminiscity

9 months ago

The National Tenants Organization - "a place to be somebody" (1970s)

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fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie

9 months ago

upzoning increased area rents and displaced low income residents yimby!😃😀😄 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie

9 months ago

You can’t budget your way out of being price-gouged on basic necessities while being paid less than a living wage. Gen Z doesn’t need financial literacy. They need economic policies that aren’t designed to exploit them to satisfy the greed of the top .01%

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Damien Goodmon @damienISgoodmon

9 months ago

This is how YIMBYs sound.

Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap

9 months ago

This is how YIMBYs sound.

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Róisín Dubh @bohemiantoo

9 months ago

@mikeleyba @stillhere_415 Homelessness in MA increased an astounding 50% between 2023 and 2024 and 74% for families with kids. What the hell are we doing here? Tax the wealthy! youtu.be/w-0uUkeURW0?si…

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mike leyba @mikeleyba

9 months ago

This is a joke. In the most optimistic case, building housing takes years, and does not directly bring most rent prices down. The way to prevent housing prices from rising? Cap the rent increases! Pass literally any housing home rule petition.

Maura Healey @maura_healey

9 months ago

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Kyle Davis @KyleForSalem

9 months ago

We deserve better leadership than this @MassGovernor. We deserve a vision for Massachusetts that is diametrically opposed to what the Trump administration will be acting on.

WBZ | CBS News Boston @wbz

9 months ago

We deserve better leadership than this @MassGovernor. We deserve a vision for Massachusetts that is diametrically opposed to what the Trump administration will be acting on.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn

9 months ago

It would be nice to actually have a Democratic governor.

WBZ | CBS News Boston @wbz

9 months ago

It would be nice to actually have a Democratic governor.

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More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS

10 months ago

The average rent in the United States has about doubled since 2005.

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City Life / Vida Urbana (citylifevidaurbana.bsky) @CityLife_Clvu

10 months ago

TAX corporate real estate NOT hardworking homeowners in Boston. #MAPoli needs to figure out how to STOP legislators from killing bills if they've been bought out by corporations w/ thousands of dollars... It's a shame #MAPoli decisions prioritize profit over community stability.

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10 months ago

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Patrick Condon @pmcondon2

10 months ago

It’s not about zoning. It’s about the price of the dirt. governing.com/community/zoni…

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unusual_whales @unusual_whales

10 months ago

22% of US renters spend entire income on rent, per Redfin.

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More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS

10 months ago

Every $100 increase in an area’s median rent is associated with a 9% increase in the rate of homelessness, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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Kate Willett @katewillett

10 months ago

The reason housing is expensive in these cities is not bc the libs enacted limited rent control, it’s bc the LAND, is expensive. Upzoning isn’t going to create affordable housing where urban land, a finite resource, costs that much.

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Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin

10 months ago

I know our elites want to talk about everything except this, but as a historian it is my duty to tell you that in such conditions you simply cannot keep a democracy alive. It requires ever more propaganda, authoritarianism, and violence. It is is not sustainable. It is dangerous.