Submissions for #2026APPAM close on WEDNESDAY! I would love to see your work submitted to the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area.
(Yes, it continues to bug me that the conference theme is "50 States..." and the logo only shows 48, but submit anyway!)
Massachusetts has an underused tool for social housing: local redevelopment authorities.
A new paper argues for improved funding and capacity, a clearer mandate, and stronger coordination with housing authorities.
Read the paper & join us tomorrow (April 14):
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/new-man...
🚨URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate!
Write to your House Representative and Senators TODAY to share your concerns and urge them to act ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente...
#WhySocialScience #SaveSBE
Really enjoyed this excellent new residential mobility paper on "opportunity finds." We assume that families move through active housing searches. But many families find homes without actively searching, with consequences for residential inequality. Check it out!
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
ASA member Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social traces how the concept of gentrification has evolved to express widespread ambivalence about economic inequality and unease with various forms of social change. @princetonupress.bsky.social
Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates:
www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process.
We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable.
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Up-front costs (security deposits, fees, etc.) can be a significant strain on renters but a growing number of state and municipal governments have passed legislation intended to reduce up-front costs and regulate when they can be charged. @aherm.bsky.social
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/curbing...
City & Community journal waiting for the train on a platform in Los Angeles
We love a good sociological analysis of transit and infrastructure here at @cicojournal.bsky.social - we'd be delighted to review your paper! Follow the journal to keep up on our journey! (Yes, there is a subway in LA...)
#CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky
The ">30% income" definition of "cost-burdened" distorts the qualitatively & quantitatively different level of harm to very low-income folk from unaffordable housing. While more middle-income folks are cost-burdened now, very low-income folks are being left with increasingly impossible $ to live on.
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
I am incredibly honored that the Death and Life of Gentrification is reviewed in the February 9 issue of the New Yorker. My great thanks to them for their engagement with the book.
If you’re a US citizen looking to move abroad because of fear, now you know why immigration happens.
Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social sociology professor @ninabandelj.bsky.social explores what happens when children become investment projects and child-rearing becomes exhausting labor
@princetonupress.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program relies onhousing developers to build affordable housing units. Developersconsider financial feasibility and programmatic regulations whenplanning projects, and one central project feature is the affordabil-ity of units. Decisions around unit affordability directly shape hous-ing supply and, in turn, affect where low-income tenants live. Inthis article, I analyze LIHTC projects in California and show that,among projects funded from 2011 to 2023, only a small share(15%) of units was affordable to extremely low-income (ELI) house-holds. In contrast, ELI households comprised the majority of LIHTCtenants. The share of units affordable to ELI households increasedover time due in part to program regulations, financial feasibility,and state priorities around housing formerly homeless individuals,though there was still a substantial mismatch between units’affordability and tenants’ incomes during this period. Units afford-able to ELI households are slightly less likely to be in the highestsocioeconomic status (SES) communities, though mismatchbetween affordability and tenant income is similar across neigh-borhood types. Developer decision-making around income target-ing, tenant type, and project location shapes affordable housingsupply, and I conclude by noting the importance of assessing theintersections of these factors for future policymaking
New in @houspoldebate.bsky.social
- CA's affordable housing is not affordable to lowest-income tenants, who comprise most tenants
- Units built in higher SES areas have a range of affordability levels, promising for integration goals
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#housingsky #socsky
What would be the real world impacts of the loss of federal funding for Housing First programs? We modeled it: an additional 44,590 ppl beyond anticipated growth due to economic factors. @jabarocas.bsky.social @kirkfetters.bsky.social @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
I'm finally getting my act together with the book writing process, and I'm looking for any recommendations people have for developmental editors (ideally, someone with some experience working with/enduring sociologists 😅). Much appreciated!
I'm finally getting my act together with the book writing process, and I'm looking for any recommendations people have for developmental editors (ideally, someone with some experience working with/enduring sociologists 😅). Much appreciated!
I’m biased. I think @ndlon.bsky.social is worthy recipient of donations. I proudly tell institutional donors that we do more with less than any other organization I know. We always pledge to put every penny donated to the best use possible. And we do. You can donate here ndlon.org/donate/ 9/
Great thread on giving, with my unabashed +1 recommendation to give to @ndlon.bsky.social as much and as frequently as you can. They’ve been doing so much more, for so much less, in deep support of communities, for as long as I’ve known them (25 years!!)
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
The fascist history of today’s anti-immigrant housing policy:
theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...
In the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith became known as the country’s “most infamous American fascist,” campaigning for president on the America First ticket and advancing a Christian Nationalist platform.
One thing Doug Massey knows? Social inequality is firmly grounded in geographic inequality. 📍
Check out his new essay for @contexts.org ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s their safety shakedown school
The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
In a new Demography article with @marasheftel.bsky.social we document the aging of the undocumented immigrant population. Half of undocumented Asians and one in five undocumented Mexicans are 50 or older, and now entering older adulthood without a safety net.
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
