Congratulations to Regional
Planning PhD student Marwah Malik for advancing to candidacy - so excited for your work on local community practices of climate adaptation in Pakistan. This work helps us understand how local knowledges coexist with formal planning practices.

Congratulations to Regional Planning PhD student Kyuhyun Lee for successfully advancing to candidacy - I’m excited for your work on travel behavior for residents living in LIHTC housing. Thanks for allowing me to serve on your committee.

Congratulations to Regional Planning PhD student Srirang Sohoni for successfully completing his qualifying requirements with an excellent paper on altering minimum parking requirements - it’s been fun to serve on your committee and I’m looking forward to the dissertation.

Congratulations to @emmawalters.bsky.social for slaying her dissertation proposal defense and advancing to candidacy earlier this month. Emma’s work focuses on the politics of repair in left behind places and stands to make a major contribution to our understanding of urban governance.

Congratulations to MUP student Zhenpeng Zhang for successfully defending his Masters thesis advancing techniques for an equity-focused approach linking urban heat islands, housing, and urban forestry. Thanks also to Professor Fang Fang for co-advising Zhenpeng with me.

Thanks to MUP Program alum Dr. Yiyuan Wang for talking with our doctoral students about PhD employment in industry - such an insightful conversation and wonderful to see a former student doing impactful work in the housing sector with Zillow.

How Housing Code Enforcement Shapes Stability and Access to Safe Homes Housing code enforcement is meant to ensure safe, stable housing, but a new report reveals how uneven practices and limited resources often leave neighborhoods in low-income areas stuck in cycles of i...

Thanks to @housingmatters.bsky.social for featuring our research on housing code enforcement in Illinois.

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I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

NLIHC released today its annual report, "The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes." The report finds that the lowest-income renters in the U.S. face a shortage of 7.1 million affordable and available rental homes.

Download "The Gap:" https://nlihc.org/gap

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Dang! Hang in there…

Don’t quit - IMO it gets better throughout the season…

POCIG Edward Blakely Award - Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Inc. The nominee should exemplify the following qualities:

The ACSP has opened its call for nominations for the 2025 Blakely Award! This achievement award will be given to a worthy honoree who has supported the cause of social justice, particularly in urban planning or development, for communities of color. www.acsp.org/page/AwardBl...

We’re Hiring! NLIHC is looking for a dynamic Director of Communications to join our team!

Apply today: bit.ly/nlihc-jobs

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

For those preparing grad school applications right now, here is what I look for in a personal statement:

1. What do you want to do after you finish this degree? You can change your mind later, but I do want to see that you understand what kind of things a person can do with this degree. (1/4)

We’re holding two virtual information sessions for our graduate programs - application deadlines in December and January!