New policy kit by Micah Hicks and Elias Crim on how states and municipalities can support the establishment and growth of Community Land Trusts — community-led real estate vehicles that help promote permanent affordability and local control: democracypolicy.network/agenda/strong-…

Hello. This is another reminder that my book The Right of the People — on why "American democracy" would be a good idea — will be out on August 12th. Some advance praise:

Pre-order the book people (me) are calling "the bluest book of the summer" today. More on events soon. Thank you. Bookshop: shorturl.at/ykg4a Amazon: shorturl.at/0d7A3 Barnes & Noble: shorturl.at/EFA9I

Want to learn more about how states can enable and empower the creation of municipally-owned, mixed-income housing developments? Check out DPN's kit on Social Housing at: DemocracyPolicy.network/SocialHousing

New Democracy Policy Network policy kit out today — on Financing Shared Ownership!

What could enable economic democracy at scale? At the Democracy Policy Network, Júlia Martins Rodrigues and I have a new report on lessons for state-level policy, based on experience from Colorado to Brazil: democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-co…

Days off are not non-working days. They are days when we are working on other things— things which are also important and need our time and care.

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If Zohran wins tonight, this book by Daniel Wortel-London — a tremendous urban history and storehouse of inspiring precedents and ideas — is going to be required reading in the coming years: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

RIP to one of the absolute greats 🙏🏼

We just published a new Democracy Policy Network policy kit by Elias Crim on an innovative model for co-created social care that is showing tremendous results in Italy, Quebec, and South Korea: The Social Cooperative. Learn more below -->

"If Zohran Kwame Mamdani wins tonight, [The Menace of Prosperity] — a tremendous urban history and storehouse of inspiring precedents and ideas — is going to be required reading in the coming years." - Pete Davis 🪴, June 24, 2025. Time to read up, folks. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Book of the Summer dropping soon — so pumped for this: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704686/t…

I was recently interviewed for the wonderful "Lost Prophets" podcast on my upcoming book "The Menace of Prosperity." Check it out here - and thank you hosts Elias Crim and Pete Davis 🪴 for being such incredible inspirations and partners in the cause! lostprophets.org/p/17-daniel-wo…