Daniel Kay Hertz
@DanielKayHertz
Personal account. Beckee, Addie, Lucy, Olive. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. 🍝 & 🚌. He/Him.
JD Vance said *this* when the Access Hollywood Tape came out in which Trump bragged about groping women.
Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?
This sucks
They said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. We tried anyways. Today we're launching Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, and announcing $93M in funding from @radicalventures @ForerunnerVC @a16z @felicis @trailmixvc @joinsequel and many more. We've had…
So much discourse about progressive mayors and abundance lately Now Brandon Johnson is full YIMBY-posting and Chicago just passed a substantially more widespread parking requirement reform than the parking reforms in NYC's City of Yes
We need to pull every lever that we possibly can to grow our housing supply and drive down the cost of rent to make Chicago the safest, most affordable city in America. By making it easier to build across our city we make affordable, equitable transit oriented housing possible in…
Illustration for the Tale of Prince Ivan, The Firebird and the Grey Wolf
Rental assistance works to prevent evictions and homelessness, but not if we pull the rug out from under families when they reach an arbitrary time limit, as President Trump has proposed. cbpp.org/charts/rental-…
What is going on here?
Really wild how there are two housing markets now. If you live in the northeast or Midwest, prices are rising, everywhere around you. If you live in the south or west, prices are falling, everywhere around you. And if you live in Florida, the bottom’s falling out.
Four rebuilt Red Line stations opened in Uptown and Edgewater today, delighting neighbors who have dealt with construction for years. “I’m impressed, it’s really nice,” an Uptown neighbor said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/20/new…
Last week, Chicago passed an ordinance on a 50-0 vote that will transform housing development in the city. You can now build housing without parking on a majority of residential property in the city! Here's the interactive map misterclean.github.io/chicago-parkin…
There is a type of urbanist that needs to open an economics book and an atlas. There is more to the world than Paris, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Copenhagen- wildly expensive cities with tall buildings just outside the picturesque town. The towers vs. mid rise debate is 🥱
The bafflingly popular approach to urban planning of requiring ground floor retail in new 5/1 apts, regardless of demand, and banning corner stores/cafes/etc in the vast majority of the city, regardless of demand, is so braindead. Dumb ideas no one actually defends, on autopilot.
One reason San Francisco has so many empty storefronts? We require too much ground-floor retail—even when there’s no demand for it. Seattle took the opposite approach: it reduced its retail space by 1.5 million square feet over the past four years, converting it into new…
That birthday letter I sent to Jeffrey Dahmer saying "will always remember the delightful meals we had together"? People shouldn't read too much into that. There's an innocent explanation.
I feel like Gen-Z may not know that Republicans had an actual pedophile as Speaker of the House until 2007. Let’s remind them.