Authoritarianism in the digital age by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, Jing Hiah and @steelecat717.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social. Intro to special issue with 48 papers on the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters. The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself. And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.

Everyone hates Georgia Power so much lol

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉 For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal! www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

Glad to see this new piece on quantification, counter-data, "evidence," and what we call "authoritarian counting" out now in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social with @itspangler.bsky.social, @emtl.bsky.social, and @marxist.af! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fantastic new historical mapping resource on the FHA's Section 608 multifamily rental housing program from @brentcebul.bsky.social, Mike Glass, and their team. Complete with downloadable data! Incredible work buildinginequality.us

Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

this one

An update on the future of the Allmaps project: Sadly, on April 17, 2025, we learned that the federal government terminated many NEH grants, including ours. The notification stated that our grant’s termination was “necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.”

Why are all these people named Brian Johnson

Voters: can you pay 50 cents more in taxes to pay for vegetables for children and agree not to defraud the elderly on their electrical bills Wall Street Guy: OH LIKE THE KILLING FIELDS?!?! LIKE THE KHMER ROUGE?!?!

crying, screaming, throwing up

he's right and he's right to say it

📣 The last article from my dissertation is out! In this piece, coauthor Anne Bonds and I dive deep into the contents of HOLC’s Area Description sheets. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides

rubber bullets fly by my face. tear gas fills my lungs. a line of federal troops is marching toward me. i fire off an email to my focus group asking what i should do as a baton lands cleanly on my skull.

One consequence of viewing all politics through the lens of propaganda, disinformation, and the information war is that we've gotten to a place where that becomes the only rubric with which to judge anything. Politics is reduced to producing absolutely futile symbolic acts of debunking.

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now. Read more 👇👇

New research study estimates the incidence of manufactured home parks #evictions across the state of #Florida from 2012 through 2022, accounting for both individual evictions and mass #displacements buff.ly/7tdeQd4

Enjoying the “Abundance” book everyone is talking about

My new article will be out in the next issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. I'll be sure to post it here when it's out. In the meantime, here's a short thread and open-access link to a policy brief (tinyurl.com/yc7zxj98) 🧵 (1/8)

This is mostly about processing some stuff I truly hate about the current political moment, and the extent to which it is unfair to Anthony Santander and Luis Severino is, I would say, both real and incidental to the bigger issue. defector.com/a-dumb-new-w...

Metro level stats provide an average, but as @jtsphd.bsky.social shows in his work, it is the intra-metro geography here that is key. Institutional investor owned single-family rentals are over 80-90% in some Metro Atlanta neighborhoods atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/02/26/g...

No. If you're interested in the question of market power then regional shares are not relevant because market power is exercised in relatively small geographies where these companies absolutely hold meaningfully large shares of housing...

New from me on scholarship by @cbswope.bsky.social et al. "As the Trump Administration attempts to eviscerate fair housing...regulations...we need to recognize the persistence and resilience of racial-capitalist exploitation and dispossession, and not view it only as some relic of an earlier era."

🧵A much-needed corrective to the “HOLC redlining was the primary/root cause of everything bad” literature that has exploded since the HOLC maps were digitized. A more complicated, but still heavily racialized story. Lots of other private and public discriminatory policies & practices involved.

Glad to see this piece out! In it, we trace the explosion of HOLC redlining studies in public health research over recent years and propose that scholars widen their focus to include some of the myriad other discriminatory processes that have generated racial health inequities.

. @jtsphd.bsky.social on institutional investors owning a large share of single family rental properties in metro Atlanta. [Why Atlanta? 1) lots of foreclosures back in 2012+; 2) economies of regional scale; and 3) very weak tenant protections.]

Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley.bsky.social, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 1/

I won an NSF grant in 2017. It funded public software tools like tidycensus that have been downloaded millions of times, saving people countless hours of work and producing considerable ROI. Behind each canceled grant lies a potential, but unrealized, story like that. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

“Abolish all borders” -Jimmy Buffett

Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!

🚨New preprint out!🚨 In this forthcoming chapter, Diana Drogaris and I develop the concept of “data slop” to describe the rise of low-quality, AI-generated planning and property data provided by third-party data brokers. 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The HHUUD10 dataset, developed by NZA research director @snmarkley.bsky.social in 2022, reveals that Tesla stores are overrepresented in inner-suburban neighborhoods and underrepresented in urban, exurban, and rural areas (as defined by the dataset). Explore it here: www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

Pleased to announce that my article with Steve Holloway, "Underestimating Racism? Decoupling Race and Redlining," in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has received the IPUMS Spatial Research Award. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share new work with Lemir Teron at Howard on highway removal/reconfiguration politics in NY. We examine the variegated role of state government in both hindering and facilitating such projects, increasingly crucial to understand as USDOT abandons the more progressive elements of IIJA/IRA.

Wow. Read this full letter from Mahmoud Khalil. "I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

New NBER paper finds that income growth—not housing supply elasticity—is the best predictor of housing prices & quantity: "Our results imply that housing supply constraints are quantitatively unimportant in explaining rising housing costs." www.nber.org/system/files... [Don't shoot the messenger.]

NEW from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Noor: “This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him” Says they didn’t know where he was for 38 hours

Today at 3:00! Atlanta friends, come by Georgia Tech City & Regional Planning to hear me talk about the region's uneven historical geographies of housing and zoning. Refreshments will be served!

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The regulations they got rid of are the reason you have never had to worry about mercury poisoning, just to give one tiny example. The only ones who benefit from deregulation are corporations that want to poison you so they can make even more money.

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

Reposting off X: Join us Thursday 3/13 at 3pm for a public lecture by Dr. Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social on Atlanta's historical geographies of housing and zoning. Please share! Location: maps.app.goo.gl/wBSwT5YcTGWd... Check out the national zoning atlas here: zoningatlas.org/atlas

Private equity continues to strip this country for parts www.levernews.com/the-looting-...

again: literally the richest man in the world doing all this. what can you even say anymore

State lawmakers’ eyebrows jumped at a House committee hearing Tuesday, as Georgia State University geographer Taylor Shelton shot off a barrage of statistics about institutional investors’ staggeringly high level of home ownership across Georgia. atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/02/26/g...

Looking forward to talking about redlining and interwar spatial data science at Texas A&M tomorrow. Stop by if you’re in the area!

Happy to share some news 🎉