Submissions for #2026APPAM close on WEDNESDAY! I would love to see your work submitted to the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area.
(Yes, it continues to bug me that the conference theme is "50 States..." and the logo only shows 48, but submit anyway!)
Very excited to share new work on Thursday!
City & Community journal waiting for the train on a platform in Los Angeles
We love a good sociological analysis of transit and infrastructure here at @cicojournal.bsky.social - we'd be delighted to review your paper! Follow the journal to keep up on our journey! (Yes, there is a subway in LA...)
#CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky
Working on an article prompting us to rethink our understanding of urban art and culture? We want to see it
@cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is looking fab in DTLA
#CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky
The journal City & Community with its gorgeous new cover in front of LA's City Hall, a tall white building
We'd love to review your article on sociological analyses of urban politics for @cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is at LA City Hall. Where are you enjoying our new issue?
#CiCointheCity
Have a new book of interest to urban sociologists? Fill out the form below for consideration for @cicojournal.bsky.social new City Books feature!
New look!💅
With our March 2026 issue, we can officially welcome @annowens.bsky.social and Brian J. McCabe as the new editors of City & Community! They are excited to continue publishing the impactful research that the journal is known for. Their editorial introduction highlights the exciting changes to come.
Stay for new test score data from our sister project, the Educational Opportunity Project and Stanford Education Data Archive!
edopportunity.org
Researchers: Download data not featured in the map, including an updated version of our longitudinal school-level database with imputed free-lunch values!
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!
New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!
edopportunity.org/segregation/
Give @cicojournal.bsky.social a follow! Check out the fresh look and keep informed about all the exciting urban sociology scholarship we've got coming soon!
"Criminalizing Homelessness..." by Chien, Henwood, and Kuhn leverages impressive data to show that police encounters and homeless sweeps harm unhoused people's physical and mental health
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great new housing papers:
"Assisted Housing and Changes in Household Composition" by Kristin Perkins shows that receiving federal or state housing assistance stabilizes families
doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Yesterday I told Gemini that it was wrong and I could never trust it again. It agreed.
Housing folks! Submit to APPAM! I am co-chairing the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area (obv the best one). Submit by 4/22!
#housingsky #econsky #socsky #policysky
Can’t protest? Here are other ways to get involved in LA
There are lots of other ways to make a difference during Los Angeles ICE raids. “We need you, the people, to stand with immigrants.”
I had to remind myself to shake off my feelings of futility and helplessness. If you need that reminder:
Call 5calls.org
Donate www.standwithminnesota.com
Find your local mutual aid and immigration defense networks. I support @chirla-org.bsky.social and mutualaidla.org
Naomi Osaka in white hat and umbrella and turquoise jellyfish outfit
Man in downtown LA with white umbrella and turquoise outfit
Who wore it best?
(L): Naomi Osaka, 2026 Australian Open
(R): Man on the street, 2026 Downtown LA
I participated in a couple calls about actually adding this....
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program relies onhousing developers to build affordable housing units. Developersconsider financial feasibility and programmatic regulations whenplanning projects, and one central project feature is the affordabil-ity of units. Decisions around unit affordability directly shape hous-ing supply and, in turn, affect where low-income tenants live. Inthis article, I analyze LIHTC projects in California and show that,among projects funded from 2011 to 2023, only a small share(15%) of units was affordable to extremely low-income (ELI) house-holds. In contrast, ELI households comprised the majority of LIHTCtenants. The share of units affordable to ELI households increasedover time due in part to program regulations, financial feasibility,and state priorities around housing formerly homeless individuals,though there was still a substantial mismatch between units’affordability and tenants’ incomes during this period. Units afford-able to ELI households are slightly less likely to be in the highestsocioeconomic status (SES) communities, though mismatchbetween affordability and tenant income is similar across neigh-borhood types. Developer decision-making around income target-ing, tenant type, and project location shapes affordable housingsupply, and I conclude by noting the importance of assessing theintersections of these factors for future policymaking
New in @houspoldebate.bsky.social
- CA's affordable housing is not affordable to lowest-income tenants, who comprise most tenants
- Units built in higher SES areas have a range of affordability levels, promising for integration goals
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#housingsky #socsky
People move often, and in theory, freely. But segregation persists. New research finds that residential mobility in CA largely maintains unequal access to high-opportunity neighborhoods, even though individual movers may buck the trends.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/the...
📢 Actions You Can Take to Support UC Values:
✍️ Sign: UCLA Faculty Association letter: tinyurl.com/ucstandup
🏳️⚧️ Sign: Save Gender-Affirming Care at UCLA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📬 Write: UC President Milliken & the Regents: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
(h/t @jesscraven101.bsky.social)
The NDSC team also put out a dashboard on affordable housing production with data that is hard to get and rarely seen
la.myneighborhooddata.org/measure-a/
And new findings on declines in LA's homeownership rate, especially among middle-income folks.
They are providing some of the most comprehensive data on how LA is... behind on its housing production goals
My friends at USC Lusk Neighborhood Data for Social Change just launched #SOLACHAN, the first (and now annual) comprehensive look at LA's housing and neighborhoods
la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/
Submissions due FRIDAY! Send us your work!
📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
