I am organizing a session on housing and residential mobility processes. Please consider submitting your abstracts #PAA2026

There is a week left to apply for this funding opportunity on social mobility and higher education

When Will Los Angeles Rebuild? Comparing Housing Recovery Timelines After Four Recent Wildfires Rebuilding a city can take years after a wildfire, and context is key—as recent wildfires can teach us.

How long does it take to rebuild housing after a wildfire? We analyzed property-level data from four recent disasters to illustrate the speed at which communities rebuild (and some of the reasons why):

with @sara-mctarnaghan.bsky.social, @aleszu.bsky.social and Kameron Lloyd.

shorturl.at/Iyvky

Let me know if you have questions or if you would like me to send to you the PDF of the RFP.

For more information on previous grants, please visit
www.ccny.cuny.edu/sml/grantees

The Lab is an initiative to support scholarship, convenings, and public events about social mobility, nationally and in higher education.

This grants program has been organized by the Social Mobility Lab, based at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the home of the social sciences at The City College of New York.

The Social Mobility Lab Call for Proposals The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York is pleased to announce our second round of grants from our Social Mobility Lab - whose mission is to discover new ways to accelerate and expand opportunity for our students, their families, and the communities they represent. All full-time faculty and doctoral students in the United States are eligible to apply. The second cycle of grants will support six-eight (6-8) projects. Each project will be supported with up to $10,000. The deadline for applications is March 24, 2025. Applications will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary faculty committee, and awards will be announced in early April 2025. The grant period is July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026; grant recipients will be permitted to request an extension on use of funds of up to one year.

$10,000 funding opportunity for research on social mobility for doctoral students and tenure-track faculty.

#sociology #demography socsky 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Apply here: airtable.com/apptmQOyf1Kq...

PD&R also provides/manages all HUD's spatial data hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com
(which was my job in 2013).

Archive what you can now, but if there's current data on e.g. *where* subsidized households are living, then supporting HUD's fair housing mission is impossible.

bsky.app/profile/soci...

RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin [VIDEO] What Now? with Trevor Noah · Episode

This is a really fantastic conversation with @ruha9.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/7Kyq...

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Adding this to my housing class syllabus as we are currently covering the 14th Amendment, Reconstruction, the Homestead Acts, and (im)migration. I usually cover this in the second part of the semester along with readings on residential segregation, but given current events, I re-did the syllabus

Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

I have shut down
your work
in the lab
that does science

at which
you were probably
making
new knowledge

Forgive me
it was expensive
so gender
and so woke

It’s About Time: Parent’s Direct Care for Children in Hispanic Noncitizen Households Across State Immigration Policy Contexts - Population Research and Policy Review Is parent’s direct care for children more common in state contexts with inclusive policies toward immigrants? If so, among whom do we find such a relationship? We analyze American Time Use Survey (ATU...

New paper on how state policies can support immigrant parents and children:

"It's about time: Parent’s Direct Care for Children in Hispanic Noncitizen Households Across State Immigration Policy Contexts" Population Research & Policy Review

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

What Climate Progress Is Possible Now? The second Trump administration has hit the ground running. The president has signed a flurry of executive orders targeting everything from birthright citizenship to pulling out of the Paris Climate A...

Tune into this episode from @climateone.org to hear about how climate policy and climate action/activism are changing under the Trump Administration. (Also tune in to hear how I sound like a cartoon villain when I have a sinus infection... 🙃) www.climateone.org/audio/what-c...

Mobile Homes Are Vulnerable to Climate Extremes. Here’s What Policymakers Can Do Before the Next Disaster The more than 1.2 million mobile homes located throughout the US are uniquely vulnerable to climate extremes, but policymakers can help increase the resilience of these homes while preserving their af...

Conservatively there are 50k mobile homes in North Carolina, 52k in Arizona, 76k in Texas, 145k in Texas and 176k in California. They are terribly inefficient and many are unhealthy places to live. We should think seriously about a national movement to replace them. www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...

Data geeks, I know many of us don't like phone calls, but today I'm going to ask you to step out of your comfort zone for about 6 minutes.
It's easy and I know you can do it.

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

Crucial public data are being eliminated
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Day 1 of my class on housing is in the books. Next week we start discussion of the right to housing and will hopefully all go on a field trip to the Cooper Hewitt Museum for their new Making Home exhibit (and the Gilded Age housing history of course).

The DOE already sent me something related to the executive orders. I wonder if more is coming.

The President has issued 43 Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, and Proclamations, including an Executive Order entitled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEl Programs and Preferencing. DOE is moving aggressively to implement this Executive Order by directing the suspension of the following: ? diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) policies, procedures, programs, activities, and reviews involving or relating to DEl objectives and principles until further notice; ? requiring, using, or enforcing Community Benefits Plans (CBP); and ? requiring, using, or enforcing Justice40 requirements, conditions, or principles in any loans, loan guarantees, grants, cost sharing agreements, funding opportunity announcements, contracts, contract awards, or any other source of financial assistance.

The Office of Science is immediately ending the requirement for Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) Plans in any proposal submitted to the Office of Science. All open solicitations have been or will be amended to remove the PIER Plan requirement and associated review criterion. For proposals that have already been submitted to the Office of Science, no action on the part of the applicant is required, but applicants will have the option to resubmit a new application with the removal of the PIER plan. Reviewers will not be asked to read or comment on PIER Plans. Selection decisions will not take into consideration the content of PIER Plans or any reviewer comments on PIER Plans. If you have questions, please email questions@science.doe.gov. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

First email I have received from one of the agencies where I am a co-PI on a current grant and soon-to-be submitted proposal

A New York City housing crisis, both on land and at sea A houseboat community nestled beside a Brooklyn mall faces eviction, part of a dwindling number of New Yorkers who live on the water.

I have read a bit about the affordability challenges of mobile home parks, but have not seen any research on houseboats. Some similar challenges here about the ownership of land/docks but perhaps the boats are easier to move to a temporary location at least for a short while

What’s up with the subway announcements informing passengers that soliciting money is illegal and we should donate to a shelter instead? Is this new?

NYC-DSA READING GROUPS - WINTER 2025 Don't be left out in the cold - spend this winter in good company by joining an NYC-DSA reading group! Thanks to our many incredible organizers across projects, we have a dozen options to choose from...

Excited to be leading the Modern Housing reading group with @socialists.nyc this winter! We will explore the history of (and struggle for) social housing from the New Deal to the present day in the US! It will be sooooo fun!!!!! Sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/nyc-ds...

Seeing as it's the new year, I'll begin by resharing my paper which was published at a very inopportune time (Xmas Eve) – on mouldy housing, race, slow violence, and "toxic" black mould 🦠🦠. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Environmental Sociology Student Paper Award: The purpose of this award is to recognize an outstanding paper written by a graduate student or group of graduate students. All members of the Section and the ASA are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are also welcome. In addition to recognition, recipients will receive a modest monetary award. Papers do not have to be published or accepted for publication to be considered. They must have been submitted to the ASA annual meeting and/or to a journal by a graduate student(s) at the time the nomination is made. Published papers must have been accepted for publication or published between January 1st, 2024 and December 31st, 2024 and while the author(s) was still a graduate student in order to be considered. Papers co-authored with faculty are ineligible. To nominate a paper, please send a PDF copy of the paper along with a nomination letter that includes information about the paper’s status by April 1st, 2025 to Policy & Research Committee Chair, Caleb Scoville (caleb.scoville@tufts.edu). Please put “Environmental Sociology Student Paper Award” in the subject line. Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award: This is given for publications of special noteworthiness in the field of environmental sociology. It is given in alternate years for either (a) a book in even years or (b) a single article in odd years. This year the committee will consider articles published within the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2024. To nominate an article, please email a nomination letter by April 1st, 2025 to Policy & Research Committee Chair, Caleb Scoville (caleb.scoville@tufts.edu). Please put “Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award” in the subject line.

Distinguished Contribution Award: This award is given annually to recognize individuals for outstanding service, innovation, or publication in environmental sociology. It is intended to be an expression of appreciation, awarded when an individual is deemed extraordinarily meritorious by the Section. All members of the Section are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. Nominations for this award must be received by April 1st, 2025. To nominate an individual for this award, please send a letter of nomination describing the nominee’s contribution to environmental sociology and/or the sociology of technology, accompanied by a copy of the nominee’s CV, to the chair of the award committee, Debra Davidson, Past-Chair, (debra.davidson@ualberta.ca). Please put “Distinguished Contribution Award Nomination” in the subject line. Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism (Bi-yearly): The Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism, given in odd years, honors a doctoral student or other young investigator who has obtained a Ph.D. in the past five years. The purpose of the award is to recognize work that investigates the relationship between technology and humanism or otherwise proposes innovative solutions to emerging social issues associated with technology. Unpublished papers or articles published within the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2024, are eligible. All members of the ASA and Environmental Sociology Section are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. To submit a nomination, please send the article and a nomination letter by April 1st, 2025 to Joshua Sbicca, Chair-Elect, (J.Sbicca@colostate.edu). Please put “Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism Nomination” in the subject line.

The Environmental Sociology Practice and Outreach Award (Bi-yearly): This award, given in odd years, honors faculty scholar-activists who demonstrate outstanding practice and outreach contributions that advance equity in the context of socio-environmental relations. All members of the Section are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. In accordance with ASA policies, the recipient must be a current member of the association at the time the award is given to receive the award. The initial nomination should include a nomination letter (up to 2 pages) describing the practice and outreach contributions of the nominee and the nominee’s CV, and may also include up to three pieces of evidence supporting the nominee’s outstanding service and outreach accomplishments, and other evidence of especially dedicated service to the field (e.g., letter of support, examples of outreach/practice activities, media coverage, etc.). Send this initial nomination packet to Alan Rudy, Teaching, Training, and Practice Committee Chair (rudy1a@cmich.edu) by March 1st, 2025. Please put “Environmental Sociology Practice and Outreach Award Nomination” in the subject line. Preliminary decisions on nominations will be made by the Committee and those selected for further consideration for the award will be asked to submit a revised nomination letter and up to 5 letters of support from any mix of community members/public representatives, colleagues, and/or students by April 15th, 2025 for final consideration for the award.

Are you doing environmental sociology? Consider nominating your work (or the work of a colleague) to the ASA Section on Environmental Sociology's 2025 awards. I'm currently serving as Policy & Research Committee Chair for the section and will be chairing two of the award committees.

Please nominate your books! I'm chairing this committee and am looking forward to reading your excellent work. No letter necessary and it is a great way to have a bunch of interested folks read your book.