“Housing activists have fought for years to repeal or reform the harmful law, but the real estate industry has used its vast political connections to stop any change. As a result, California continues to lose affordable housing units year after year, with no way of getting them back.”
“From 2001 to 2024, renter incomes rose by 9 percent in real terms while rents rose by 30 percent.”
Via: @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
Grateful to my much smarter co-authors @trochabeardall.bsky.social, whose work on settler colonialism, police violence, & sovereignty threat guided this paper; and @jackiejahn.bsky.social, whose insights on the functioning of the criminal legal system always make our work better & stronger. 5/
One potential solution we highlight are the dozens of Indigenous-led alternatives to policing, which may provide restorative public safety and care services without necessitating interactions with armed law enforcement: tribaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TAJI_Guidebook_FINAL.pdf 4/
To Indigenous peoples living in and around reservations, this is not news. Generations have protested and fought back against state violence mediated through the reservation system, including contemporary research showing that reservation borders are sites of racial profiling. 3/
We find #Indigenous peoples in and around reservations face rates of fatal #policeviolence that are 1.6 - 5.8 times higher than Indigenous peoples living farther away (depending on proximity & how you define the Native population), even when adjusting for rurality. 2/
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
📣 Police violence against Native peoples is among the highest of any group in the US. Yet little quantitative research studies it. In @pnas.org, we ask: are Native people living on American Indian reservations more likely to be killed by police? Short answer: yes, starkly. #episky 🧪 1/
Renters with Renters United living in horrific conditions are tearing the house down at this hearing to pass the #SafeHealthyHomesAct #SHHA in #Philadelphia city council ✊🏼
"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is telling landlords receiving federal aid to prove the citizenship and eligibility of nearly 200,000 tenants." www.bisnow.com/national/news/multifamil...
This reminds me of how people often have a faulty sense of the dynamic between belief and action, viewing only that action stems from belief --- when, far more often, belief stems from action.
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...
$98 billion in planned AI data center development was derailed in a single quarter last year by community organizing and pushback, more than all disruptions tracked since 2023.
www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
For the full paper published in Cancer Medicine, click through: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Picture of the title and abstract of the paper. The title is, "Housing Insecurity and Threats of Utility Shut-Offs Among Cancer Survivors in the United States, BRFSS 2022–2023". The abstract reads, "Background: The financial burden of cancer treatment can increase the risk of housing insecurity for patients undergoing treatment and survivors. Objective: To evaluate the burden of housing and utility insecurity among cancer survivors compared to individuals without a cancer history, examine outcome differences by housing tenure (renters vs. homeowners) and treatment status (active vs. post-treatment), and identify predictors of housing insecurity. Methods: We analyzed data from 14 states that completed the Social Determinants and Cancer Survivorship modules of the 2022and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), yielding 5499 respondents with a previous cancer diagnosis (excluding skin cancers) and 61,883 respondents without a cancer diagnosis. We estimated prevalences and fit logistic regressions. Key Results: Cancer history was associated with greater odds of housing (AOR 1.43, 95% CI: 1.18–1.74) and utility (AOR 1.36,95% CI: 1.09–1.69) insecurity, but this varied by treatment timing and housing tenure. Patients currently undergoing treatment were more likely to report housing and utility insecurity (AOR 1.96, 95% CI: 1.28–3.01 and AOR 1.67, 95% CI: 1.06–2.61, respectively) than individuals without a history of cancer. Such insecurity was elevated even after treatment for renters, but not for homeowners. In absolute terms, 34.7% of renters with a cancer history reported housing insecurity, compared to 7.1% of their homeowner counterparts.Conclusions: Cancer diagnosis and treatment can contribute to housing and utility insecurity during and after treatment. Addressing this through targeted interventions within both healthcare systems and social policy may mitigate hardship and improve well-being"
📣 Proud of our new paper revealing that 2 in 5 renters in cancer treatment can't pay their housing or utility bills, along with 1 in 9 homeowners.
Cancer patients need housing supports and a healthcare system that doesn't impoverish families fighting life-threatening chronic illness. #episky 🧪
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
A screenshot of an episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart with captions that read: Tim Miller: Well, it's a progressive outlet, so there are a couple of people wearing masks. Jon Stewart: Oh, there's always two. And you always say, "Oh, are you sick?" And they go, "Uh, I don't want to talk about it."
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
On #DavidRemnick. The @newyorker.com has some great science writers. But there is an affinity high-up for COVID contrarianism: Jessica Winter's piece on school closures, Dan Immerwahr's ode to "In COVID's Wake," & the best of 2025 for that book. 1/
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.
It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
1-the one extended period where this ratio <2 (still >1 tho) *and* rates were low in absolute terms was post-peak pandemic in the Biden era (2022-4).
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
Black families spend more of their income on energy bills than the average U.S. household – a gap tied to older housing, rental barriers and the legacy of redlining.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
Our latest study @jamahealthforum.com shows the harms of work requirements for safety net programs. Women who were subject to harsher requirements and who received less cash assistance from TANF were less likely to breastfeed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu 1/
“A lot of families are going to have to determine if they’re going to feed their kids today or pay the rent tomorrow.”
Via: @nbcdfw.com
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#housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+
New study finds more generous state safety net policies w/ fewer administrative barriers are linked to better birth outcomes, esp for marginalized groups. Very relevant finding in current policy environment!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @gabeschwartz.bsky.social @npwf.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social
Infograph has a "We accept EBT" sign. And text above it reads: "330,000 low-income college students use CalFresh to help pay for their groceries. But, because of the government shutdown, these college students may not receive their November CalFresh benefits."
More than 330,000 low-income college students in California use #CalFresh to help pay for their groceries. But they may not receive their benefits in November because of the government shutdown. capolicylab.org/news/analysi... #CaLeg
