Homelessness initiatives operate in an ecosystem built to respond more often than to prevent. Any shift in its order can cause a systematic short-circuit, especially in rural areas with already scarce resources.

Congratulations to Erin Gaede ‪‪@eringaede.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS)! @socialsciencesinst.bsky.social ‬

Research about housing and health by Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social made an appearance in The Badger Herald. badgerherald.com/news/wiscons...

Our latest in @dailyyonder.bsky.social on the relationship between #housing costs & community well-being.

This week’s defunding of #NPR and PBS raises concerns about equity, as #rural areas—already underserved in media access—stand to be disproportionately affected.

The Unaffordable Care Act

Thousands of Wisconsinites already face #housing insecurity. Now, cuts to Medicaid, housing programs, and food assistance could push them into homelessness @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/07/wisc...

Thanks @urbanmilwaukee.com for highlighting our research on the vital connection between #housing affordability and health outcomes.

The budget reconciliation bill expands the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) but guts Medicaid and SNAP. Is that really a win for housing, asks @shelterforce.bsky.social. shelterforce.org/2025/07/02/t...

Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that’s been in your family for generations. At any moment, another heir could sell their share, triggering a court-ordered sale that could force you off the land. Scholars explain “heirs’ property’” and its challenges:

Rising housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care, according to a new report from Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social of the Rural Livability Project. www.wpr.org/news/rising-...

📢 📖 New research report from the Rural Livability Project, covered by Wisconsin Public Radio! In this report, Tessa Conroy, Steven Deller, and I find that rising #housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care. Read more here 👇 www.wpr.org/news/rising-...

Medicaid cuts don’t just hurt the low-income. As @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and I write, cutting Medicaid drives up hospitals’ uncompensated care, putting them at risk of closure & increasing by 20-40 mi the distance to rural hospitals. Hurts privately insured too. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

When I was pregnant with my first, I lived in a county that didn't have a hospital with labor & delivery. Well, labor progressed so fast, I ended up giving birth at home rather than risk the ~40 minute drive to the hospital where my OB was. I was lucky. Other moms won't be if these cuts go through.

Congress will decide. But housing aid takes a major hit in the White House budget request. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Battling over transgender rights, the Trump administration is moving swiftly and strategically to undo, uproot and remake federal housing policy with HUD retreating from long-established fair-housing protections for gender identity.

Around 22 million Americans live in manufactured homes, the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the US. But this is rapidly changing as private equity-backed companies are increasingly buying these communities, often outbidding residents, as reported by @shelterforce.bsky.social

Meanwhile, the de facto head of the US government has declared that he's going to save our society from the "fundamental weakness" of empathy.

Rural communities will be hit particularly hard by cuts to SNAP. #Rural Americans experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity and nonmetro areas have higher participation rates in SNAP @newrepublic.com

Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Congratulations!