Rent freezes and free buses? Why Toronto is looking at New York with envy — and how we can catch up A mayoral election year is an opportunity to hear about what others would do if they had city hall’s top job right now.

If you woke up tomorrow and suddenly had all the powers of the Toronto mayor’s office, what would you do? #IfIweremayor series

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

CALL FOR PAPERS | Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy – Metropolitics The Editorial Board is issuing a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in Metropolitics titled “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy” and edited by…

CFP for a forthcoming special series: “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy,” edited by Prentiss Dantzler, Rashad Williams, and Akira Drake Rodriguez. Welcoming submissions through June 1!

buff.ly/HzWD3gL

@docdantzler.bsky.social @akirarodriguez.bsky.social

Thankful for the recognition! Looking forward to celebrating with friends in Chicago in just a few weeks!

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’

As the number of people in detention climb, so have the deaths: The 33 fatalities in 2025 were the most in a single year on record since the Department of Homeland Security started operating in March 2003.

Reporting w/ Allison McCann and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

Canada. You border Canada.

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

Erykah Badu will join Jaÿ-Z as a headliner at the Roots Picnic

Eryka Badu will be the closing night headliner at the 2026 Roots Picnic.

I just clued into the Afroman defamation lawsuit. Amazing. Absolutely amazing content. Actually, it surpasses mere content. It is art.

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 2.25 per cent The move is in line with what many economists predicted given the current instability caused by the United States’ tariff threats.

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 2.25 per cent

Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...

Philly City Council will consider limiting ICE next month as new Pa. detention centers loom

Every lawmaker will have the opportunity to question members of Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration as well as immigration advocates about the package.

"Graphic titled 'Experts Available: EPA CLIMATE ROLLBACK' from Scholars Strategy Network showing five expert headshots with their names, institutions, and expertise areas: Doug Brugge from UConn specializing in occupational and environmental health; Alejandro Camacho from UCLA specializing in processes of regulation; David Konisky from IU Bloomington specializing in climate change at EPA; Scott Moore from UPenn specializing in climate and energy policy; and Nikos Zirogiannis from IU Bloomington specializing in climate and energy policy, Clean Air Act. Background shows an industrial landscape with smokestacks.

📢 The Trump administration’s efforts to rescind the EPA scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger health and welfare is moving toward a formal rollback this week. For reporters covering this, the following experts are available to comment. ⤵️

🔗 Connect: scholars.org/features/exp...

Prentiss Dantzler | Scholars Strategy Network Dantzler's research examines how and why neighborhoods change and how communities and policymakers create and react to those changes. Overarching themes in Dantzler's writings include urban poverty, r...

@docdantzler.bsky.social's (@utoronto.ca) research examines how and why neighborhoods change and how communities and policymakers create and react to those changes.

Connect with Dantzler: scholars.org/scholar/pren...

February 2026 marks the 100 year anniversary of Black History Month…

The irony…

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

GIS mapping & analysis are super. They have helped advance knowledge & methods in urban studies (& other fields) in many ways over the last 40+ years or so. But I am afraid there are way too many folks who use these tools poorly or uncritically. I see many bad, misleading maps on a weekly basis. 1/2

Our latest CRI delves into the survey of community needs & concerns conducted by the Moss Park Coalition & explores the importance of community voices when private investments drive development in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (CC Prentiss Dantzler) https://ow.ly/nFoF50XGAir

Methods without theory is madness…

This is the least dismal my Bluesky timeline has been in 10 months so thank you baseball!

Affiliates & friends - can you help us spread the word?
@docdantzler.bsky.social @joannapepin.bsky.social @leafiaye.bsky.social @melissamilkie.bsky.social @ed4socialchange.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social
@uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @sdgsatuoft.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...

Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk."
@docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data

Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social…

@uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftbrn.bsky.social @newhousingalt.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social @sdcookcenter.bsky.social

I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.

“Reframing the story expands the possibilities of collective action.”

- Willow S. Lung-Aman
(The Right to Suburbia, 2024)

🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda"

✍️ Özatağan et al.

🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.

📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep

Let this year be a year of dreaming…dreaming of what’s next and what could be…

Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…