Impact
Investing $250M+ in Neighborhoods & Housing
Attorney / Professor / Public Servant
Investing $250M+ in Neighborhoods & Housing
Ideas for more fair and functional cities
A framework to overhaul the city's budgeting, hiring, contracting and other processes in order to promote more accountable and effective governance.
How the reorganization of St. Louis City and County into a single county and four boroughs could promote local control, democratic governance and equitable taxation.
An analysis of how deep inequities in the New York State Property Tax Code, including the Class Share System, Section 581 & Growth Caps, exacerbate the city's affordability crisis.
Coverage of community development work and policy initiatives
The network hosted 19K unique users, 350K sessions, 99K network hours, and 3.3TB of traffic in 2025.
Radio story on the launch of CDA's neighborhood transformation grants program. St. Louis on the Air also interviewed recipients for a wonderful follow up story in April 2024 titled How St. Louis neighborhoods are transforming – one grant at a time.
St. Louis Post Dispatch coverage of Jones administration economic justice tax incentive policy: "Less than three weeks after taking office, Tishaura O. Jones put developers on notice..."
Essays on housing, tax policy, constitutional law and more.
A response to Jill Lepore's "How Originalism Killed The Constitution" making the case that national referenda can help drive overdue constitutional amendments.
An exploration of democratic theory and constitutional evolution in the United States
An analysis of how housing vouchers for internally displaced persons, veterans, spouses of fallen soldiers could provide a short term response to Ukraine's housing crisis.