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How environmental review is strangling New York's future
Making housing cheaper and building better transit is being stymied by New York’s environmental review laws.
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke

August 2024

Harris and Obama say we need to build more homes
Their call to “cut red tape” is an inflection point in the quest for housing abundance
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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How to legalize building more homes in your NYC neighborhood
You have a surprising amount of power to change New York’s land use rules
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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July 2024

I’ve been appointed to my Manhattan community board
New York’s most junior local policy influencer, reporting for duty
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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June 2024

How to save NYC from Governor Hochul’s misguided congestion pricing “pause”
Congestion pricing is still the best way to unclog New York’s streets, clean up our air, and fund critical transit upgrades
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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May 2024

March 2024

February 2024

How and why to pay attention to New York’s local politics
It’s easier than you might think
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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January 2024

Neglecting NYC elected officials’ pay: a threat to democracy
New York’s mechanism for setting the salaries of elected officials is broken
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
How Third Avenue was made safer and faster for pedestrians, bus riders, and cyclists
Advocates built a movement that successfully convinced New York City's government to install a bus lane, bike lane, and intersection safety improvements…
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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December 2023

Public transit is vital to New York’s prosperity
Without the train and bus, New York would be perpetually gridlocked, have far fewer jobs, and be much poorer.
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Sebastian Hallum Clarke
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