So depressing. I was hoping for some cool data.

I was reading a recent article today that cited a paper that seemed perfect for my research. I went to find the article. It does not exist. Totally made up. Should I let the journal know?

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Have you wondered why exactly it is that single-family zoning leads to racial segregation? I wrote this little article to figure it out. I use an agent based model to show it is a combination of race-based wealth inequality, homophily, & clustering of housing types in zoning maps.

New on first view at SAPD! Sarah Anzia and @trounstine.bsky.social on the growth of public sector unions

Very helpful, thank you!!

Oh I haven't read about this. I will!

Thanks, Henry! vouchers are a good example for me. The AFFH too - but I was having trouble coming up with actual, on the ground policies that implement AFFH

YES! Thank you!!

Housing politics friends: please give me examples of policies that promote (not just allow for) race or class integration. I'm thinking of things like inclusionary zoning or scattered site public housing. THANKS!

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Super interesting thread, Alex. I think another way to think about this puzzle is to ask when/where boundaries (like freeways or SF zoning or even topography) allow privileged people to sort into like-neighbor neighborhoods, solving coordination problems. I have a new paper to send you!

More updates from my massive local politics survey:
City = 39% liberal, 36% moderate, 25% conservative
Suburbs = 31% liberal, 38% moderate, 31% conservative

City = 48% Democrats, 15% Ind., 37% Republican
Suburbs = 42% Democrats, 16% Ind., 42% Republican

Congratulations!

Are you moving??

That's accurate! Adam and Nate now teach that congressional simulation together at UC Merced

Thanks! I'm looking forward to writing it. This result is actually about 10 percentage points higher than the last time I asked this question. So, not surprising but still horrifying.

Thank you!

ethnicity, or color. Which law would you be more willing to support?

It reads: imagine there is a proposal for a new housing law. One law says that a homeowner can decide for him/herself to sell his house to, even if he prefers not to sell to African Americans or Latinos. The second law says that a homeowner cannot refuse to sell to someone because of their race

That's an optimistic take. The question asks whether or not homeowners should be able to discriminate when selling their house. 56%seems so low to me.

56% ☹️

Yeah really terrible

Just launched an enormous national survey on local politics. First interesting summary statistic: 36% oppose fair housing law!

Right- most of the action in partisan city elections happens in the primaries. But only about 1/3 of big city elections are partisan.

Republicans and Democrats live in different places. There is debate over whether this is sorting or treatment, but the correlation between density and ideology/partisanship is powerful

Just like in city politics!

School shooters (and the parents who purchase guns for their kids) are certainly disproportionately white. That's exactly why I worry that the law would be unfairly applied. Imprisoning parents of color whose kids got mixed up in a bad scene, rather than the people who purposefully enable murder

I feel like laws like this would undoubtedly be used to imprison parents of color at higher rates than white parents....

Thanks @raulpachecovega.bsky.social The low points of this profession are hard....