@jj_under

journalist, previously reporter @yahoofinance and @realvision

Joined October 2013
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I recently gave a keynote at Raleigh's Affordable Housing Forum! Here's the 1 min recap: youtu.be/AzuGWIMd_8I And it was fun to learn Raleigh City Council members watched my YouTube videos at their retreat this year... so nice to think we may have some policy impacts in NC :)

2026 Affordable Housing Forum | Recap

Raleigh is growing—and with that growth come new challenges around ...

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New video out today! I kept hearing this argument at my city council meetings: single-family homeowners insist they fund the city while apartment and condo residents don't pay their fair share The data tells a different story. @UrbanThree @JoeUrbanThree youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G3D55L…

This Building Explains the 'American Dream' Scam

In one Los Angeles neighborhood, the streets are dirt. Right next d...

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Excited for our Affordable Housing Forum on August 22? Same! We’re glad to have Justine Underhill of the Falls Church (VA) City Council as our keynote speaker. Her videos on housing affordability, zoning, homelessness, and local government have exceeded 6.8 million views and help bring complex policy discussions to a broader public. raleighnc.gov/housing/afford…
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This metro station sat surrounded by a giant parking lot for decades. Now it’s finally being turned into housing. Why did it take so long?
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Most street space in NYC isn’t for people, it’s for cars.
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He started planting trees illegally. It changed an entire city.
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$4 hot dog outside. $14 inside. Same food. Different rules.
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A tree so BIG people thought it was a forest. It’s actually just one.
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Tokyo’s city center is some of its least dense land. That’s the opposite of how modern cities are supposed to work.
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Same place. Same people. Completely different outcomes. Why?
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35,000 people. One city block. The densest place on Earth.
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Crime doesn’t just correlate with poverty. There’s another factor most people miss.
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"New York made one change. Traffic dropped immediately."
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TVs are cheap. Housing isn’t. Something strange happened to the economy.
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50,000 people at the Colosseum… So where did everyone park?
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What if the Louvre had to follow U.S. parking laws? It wouldn’t look the same.
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A 50-year mortgage sounds more affordable. It might actually make housing more expensive.
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A city almost spent $1.7 million on one public toilet. There’s a reason this keeps happening.
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California planned high-speed rail 30 years ago. It still isn’t finished.
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One of the cheapest types of housing used to be everywhere. Then cities made it illegal.
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