I’m very proud to see our paper, Choice Denied: Impact of Income and Credit-Based Tenant Screening on the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, co-authored with Anisha Gade and Forrest Hangen, finally published in Housing Studies (Open Access)! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...

Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.

This is really good political communication, because it's forceful but also pedagogical on the fundamental issue, but also because while he mentions the audience's potential reaction to Khalil's views, he doesn't try to pander by distancing himself from them.

“This isn’t the America I know.”

If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.

I am happy to announce that my new book, Lessons From Eviction Court: How We Can End Our Housing Crisis, will be published soon by @cornellupress.bsky.social Our inspiring clients teach my students and I about how we can fix our broken housing system. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Musk's whole deal is to pretend that no one knew how government bureaucracy worked before, like it was this big mystery box, and it's exactly that combo of stupidity and arrogance that pervades silicon valley and leads to them reinventing a city bus and thinking they're Isaac Newton

For some Black families in the US, the wealth gap has consequences on their ability to start a business, pursue a college education, manage financial emergencies, & more. Urban experts have identified 4 key policy interventions that could help Black Americans build, maintain, & grow their wealth.

Sounds like a job for the CFPB. Oh wait www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

We are excited to launch "A Woman's Place is in a Safe City," a data story on the use of #NirbhayaFunds for digital surveillance in India, in collaboration with @mitdusp.bsky.social Data+Feminism Lab, POV Mumbai @thesafecityapp.bsky.social & 3 anonymised Kolkata-based NGOs. bit.ly/3EvqV3R 🧵Read on:

Terrible, monopolistic landlord in Hyde Park, Chicago, Mac Properties, is sued for housing discrimination, steering voucher holders away from some buildings and toward others. Yay for Hope Fair Housing!

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

this stuff is so jank

I might sign up. The biggest barrier I see is this is some faint ink! I can read cursive but I'm squinting trying to see letters.

"covers people who owned Siri-enabled devices from September 17, 2014 to December 31, 2024" for a huge admission of mass scale privacy invasion, $95M is a little slap on the wrist

Today is publication day for the new book - Critical Data Studies. But since my copies are stuck in Holyhead parcel pileup & open access version not yet available on publisher website I'm saving marketing stuff to new year. As a launch day it's a bit of an anti-climax! But it's no longer 'in press'

White House releases new data estimating the impacts of landlord joint price fixing (via algorithm) on rental prices in major cities, showing a pretty large impact in places like Atlanta: www.axios.com/2024/12/17/r...

The lesson the American left should learn from the S. Korean protests is that racism enables American authoritarianism more than anything else. The psychological wages of whiteness are a real currency white people of a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are willing to be paid in.

This immediately made me think of the @sunhahong.bsky.social paper "Prediction as Extraction of Discretion"

I study patient administrative burden. Here is a thread of studies/articles I share often and/or have been suggesting for the newly interested. My first foray, with Austin Frakt. TL;DR ~1/4 people reported delayed/foregone care due to admin in past 12 mos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“The tenants aren’t professionals in this space and they don’t have unlimited time and money.”  gothamist.com/news/they-su... By @gothamist.com's @davidfbrand.bsky.social #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

What is your favorite critical technology quote? We have a list of quotes from Thoreau to MLK to Douglas Adams to Safiya Noble. Educators can use the activity to help students start thinking more critically about technology: www.civicsoftechnology.org/technology-q... What quotes should we add?

If you haven’t listened to this interview with Pete Buttigieg about planning for new train lines in the USA, it’s worth a listen! I was delighted that he affirmed my grand theory for why transit construction costs are so high in the US!!

Citizenship as legitimized racism. @asociologist.bsky.social explores >

know they will not be held accountable for wrongful denials." UnitedHealthcare was "effectively using AI to throw the elderly — our parents or grandparents — out onto the street," UnitedHealthcare uses AI that wrongfully denies '90%' of claims, says lawsuit www.benefitspro.com/2023/11/16/u...

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

I am also skeptical of “evidence-based policy.” The idea is often predicated on indifference to the reality that the production and use of evidence is endogenous to political processes. Evidence is important. But it is fundamentally political. So, whether & how it gets used is a matter of power.

As an introduction, thought I would let folks know that my book Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-class Communities has been out for close to a year. It is an environmental, community action story about slow violence in a mobile home park that eventually closed.

What's the best descriptive paper you've ever read? For me it's probably this one. Teachers in Uganda were missing from the classroom *half* the time! Stunning. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/zh/8...

I had a blast teaching #Sociology of #Housing last spring. Here's my syllabus and podcast playlist: tinyurl.com/socofhousing Podcast playlist: tinyurl.com/housingpod (I've added a few things to it that came out after the semester) 🏡🏨🏗️

Last week I participated in an event organized by CIGI on "The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data". #datagovernance #datavalue #DataAssets #solidarity #datawealthfund Check out my & others' contributions here: www.cigionline.org/the-role-of-...

Since I'm new here, I am introducing myself my sharing some of my recent research "Race, profit, and algorithms: Neighborhood-level analysis of iBuyers’ profit margin" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Relevant reading on this. Asymmetries in spatial and social segregation do seem related to a lot of this discourse. "White people typically avoid black space, but black people are required to navigate the white space as a condition of their existence." 🔓paper: sociology.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Hi there fellow newbies! I'm Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Oxford, exploring reparations and reparative justice. Looking forward to connecting around mutual interests. Our project website: Reparative Futures of Education www.repair-ed.uk

Tech firms shape cities to generate data for their digital products, creating a feedback loop: they invest in urban property & design spaces that capture and reinforce consumer preferences. New open-access paper w/ Anthony Levenda & @asabatino.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A small starter pack for anyone interested in digital/platform capitalism, with a focus on social sciences (sociology geography, STS, econ etc.). Let me know if you want to be added!

I will be presenting the July report on algorithmic tenant screening at a PolicyLink webinar with TechEquity, where we will share the findings of the report and discuss HUD’s latest fair housing guidance on rental applicant screening. www.policylink.org/webinars/fro...

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📢 I am pleased to share my paper, “Reparative Urban Science: Challenging the Myth of Neutrality and Crafting Data-Driven Narratives,” published in Planning Theory & Practice (Open Access)! doi.org/10.1080/1464...

I’m so excited to share this paper, “Screened out of Housing,” which I collaborated on with TechEquity Collaborative! techequity.us/press_releas...

So that whole bowling alone fixation when I was in grad school inspired this piece in gender & society. Would have loved to have added that little tidbit 20 years ago (I can’t believe I’m that old)