Tom Slater
@tomslater42Urban geographer. Letters of recommendation writer. Professor at Columbia University @gsapp_planning.
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Finally!! Next, get rid of right to buy entirely
New council housing in England may be removed from right to buy scheme theguardian.com/society/2024/n…
It’s hilarious to watch people who only engage in politics every four years reduce Kamala’s likely loss solely to her identity, instead of acknowledging the deeply flawed platform and party issues of the Democrats.
We should reject the idea that the country is moving to the right. Both parties made an appeal to the right and one did a better job of it.
'Rent controls in comparative perspective' is a plural reflection from activists & academics who participated in an international symposium in Edinburgh on living with or fighting for rent controls from across Europe and North America @NeilGray00 radicalhousingjournal.org/2024/rent-cont… 1/2
“Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended.” — Quincy Jones
“Ego is just overdressed insecurity.” - Quincy Jones
A Small List (!!!) of Albums Quincy Jones Produced: Michael Jackson - Thriller Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Michael Jackson - Bad George Benson - Give Me the Night Patti Austin - Every Home Should Have One Aretha Franklin - Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) Lesley Gore -…
Interview with me about the housing question in one of Portugal’s national newspapers
Perante “um grave problema de habitação, a habitação social nunca tem sido parte da discussão” publico.pt/2024/11/03/loc…
Music has lost one of its all time greats
Breaking News: Quincy Jones, one of the most powerful forces in American popular music for more than half a century, died at 91. nyti.ms/3AoNOEm
We are all deeply saddened at UofG that the wonderful @JaneyGodley has passed away. We send Janey's family, friends and everyone who loved her our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences. ❤️
Thank you @UofGlasgow for bestowing upon my mum the honorary degree of doctor of the University of Glasgow. This has brought her so much joy in the final beats of her life. Janey is so honoured, and I am so immensely proud of her. Congratulations Doctor Godley. Ashley Storrie
One of the most remarkable images out of Spain yesterday is from this town in Aragón. That's a lot of water, but the dam — which was ordered built by the Emperor Augustus — held firm, just as it has for the past 2000 years. Roman concrete: Never leave home without it.
“Your own house is your personal ATM machine. Ownership is your future. If grocery prices had increased at the same rate as real estate since 1971, a chicken would cost now £51 (2013).” Is it that normal? Flats have stories. A place is a home. All housing is social! (P. Marcuse)
Municipal Housing and Community in Cape Town: Lessons from the Bloemhof flats | Tom Slater | 31 outubro A entrada é livre.
An 86-year-old woman was evicted in Dubuque after falling $1,900 behind in rent. Rent across America is almost 34% higher than before the pandemic. Karla with @CCIAction is right: We must stop private equity and big banks from forcing working class people from their homes.
Blackstone is now the largest corporate landlord on Earth with over 300,000 homes in the U.S. Billionaires and corporations have bought millions of homes and either raised rents or left them as empty investments. There are 16 million vacant houses—28 for every homeless person.
This is a brilliant and engaging paper - read it!
The exonerated Central Park Five filed a federal lawsuit against former President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of defaming them during a televised presidential debate on Sept. 10. bit.ly/3YfEM4v
If you genuinely want to evacuate a population from an area for humanitarian reasons, you don't separate men and older boys from women and children, tie their hands and take them off to an unknown destination, and send women and children on a forced march with no food or water.
Here is our commentary on how the 2024 Economics Nobel integrates colonialism into economics, while leaving a colonial worldview intact (with @SurbhiKesar & @devikadutt). To explain how & why they do this, we go back to the colonial origins of economics. epw.in/journal/2024/4…
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