The AMI conversations feels (and is) wonky but people in #rva need language for why they look around at all of this new subsidized "affordable" housing and they still can't afford to live in it. They already intuitively understand that's not right.
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Charlie is a really special candidate. He's a civl rights lawyer, a law librarian, and president of the Richmond Community Legal Fund. I took his urban politics class at VCU and it changed the way I thought about organizing around elections. If you're in the 77th please vote for him this Sunday.
Oh well if steve nesmith says it's fine then it must be fine. He wouldn't lie to the public
This seems like overkill even if you support the use of these things
I know I'm too online because when I saw that this man posts daily Richmond weather updates I thought "Wow, he's like Richmond's David Lynch"
With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage.
Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.
Oh my bad. You have been writing on this a ton. Ty & subscribing
#rva since we're on the topic of publicly available info, there are two competing Richmond FIOA Library bills on the agenda for the 12/08/25 city council meeting. Def recommend showing up to give public comment in support of transparency @ city hall.
Im also in HP and if they have a single one of these after taking all our stoplights away I'm going to be furious
Hate that the only implausible part of this is that anyone is flexible enough for the Roomba sensor to pick this up
Yeah, and actually looking at this I'm not sure if this is a renewal of the existing contract and not an additional purchase before the terms of the first ended. Like I'm not sure how much of that cost is the sensors themselves vs whatever recurring costs there are to operate them.
Oh just kidding there's way more than 30 and we renewed the contract over the summer data.richmondgov.com/Well-Managed...
anyone reading this ^ should only do this if you're ready to never show hole at a protest
Original purchase order says 30 so maybe a cursed Easter egg hunt
Oh would love to see why you find. The VAST majority of these seem to be in the 7th district but HP isn't.
Interesting that the map of these ravens and the RPDs stated "hotspots" don't always overlap Gilpin doesn't seem to have any. This was the next public housing neighborhood redevelopment that would have displaced the majority of residents based on the original plan.
Ohhh, seems like that two year contract is about to be up for renewal. @dinfontay.com any chance we could get a follow up article? 🙏
Do y'all know when they started rolling these out? I've seen media coverage on the use of the cameras and I see some coverage of VCU adding a few similar devices around VCU but I don't see anything about the Flock gunshot detectors.
Can't wait for the 2027 congressional inquiry into why the CIA AI told the DOD AI to order a drone strike in Wisconsin.
This sort of voter disenfranchisement is so common in #rva that we train canvassers to walk residents through applying to have their voting rights restored or check if they have been. In many cases, we're seemingly the first people to tell them this is possible.
Oh, love this. Are the gunshot detectors really that concentrated to the east end or is that mapping a WIP? maprva.org/projects/sur...
Do what now? This seems like a fascinating use of free will.
Lol, the chief economics journalist for the WSJ calling the issue of whether people can afford to live "amorphous & poorly defined" feels like a real self own. Like whose job is it to define, Greg?
Any advice for a city trying to manage efforts to densify with failing water supply and wastewater infrastructure? Richmond VA is trying to rezone but has seen very critical infrastructure failures in the last year. I think there's public skepticism local gov can manage both responsibly
This is also mostly true of mug cakes if you've reached mug mug cake levels of exhaustion mid week. As I often do.
Yeah, no that's extremely fair. They're not making it easy!
Certainly doesn't have to be! Tbh Richmond's Code Refresh will have a big impact on this for better or worse so that's definitely a process to follow if you're not already
Yeah I think the commerce is definitely coming. IMO it's just a question of how much of the green space we get to hold onto once the development really ratchets up
I live in Highland Park and being in the city but still having access to green space & wildlife (hawks, owls, deer, etc) means so much to me.
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