Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.” My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

Q: How does new rental construction impact rent prices? A: It depends. New research finds BIG developments: ⬆️ rents of lower-priced units by 4.4%⚠️ ⬇️ rents of higher-priced units by 1.7%. @tonydamiano.bsky.social & Chris Frenier tell us why submarkets matter. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you so much for this honor! All thanks to the wonderful organizers in Philly who let me document these struggles and approach to educational justice in the city!

The first in the @urbandemos.bsky.social Working Paper Series is what we call a “progressive building agenda”. In this case, the goal is to create housing for all, not only for who the market will bear. hdl.handle.net/2451/75567

New working paper that adds to the growing critique of the "deregulationist" approach to singularly solving housing affordability. They argue that instead, the main culprit is growing inequality. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

Check these out! And stay tuned over the coming days for breakdowns of the different proposals. First up: Building Blocks of a Progressive Building Agenda

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

Urban sociologists! I'm organizing a Community and Urban Sociology Section session at the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting titled "Housing as an Asset." Please submit extended abstracts or full papers related to topics on homeownership, house values, taxation, mortgages, etc. Deadline is 2/25. bit.ly/3Zx2eez

New piece in the March issue of Social Forces tracing 120 years of segregation. We note the emergence of a new kind of segregation starting the 1950s: macro-segregation. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... @sfjournal.bsky.social

Welcome to A New Era, Cea Weaver!

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight. Read more in my new piece w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...

Awesome new report by Jacob Udell and @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social on the rise of multifamily distress. If we had an SHDA, we'd be ready to convert these to permanently affordable housing

Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States: Multifamily loan delinquencies are at their highest rate in 10 years, having nearly doubled in the last year alone.

More than 5,000 rent-stabilized units connected to the Pinnacle Group are going up for auction in 2026. Residents are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those units unlivable. Read their story: bit.ly/47EBZYw #HousingJustice #RentStrike

Oh dear god no

Published my first Op-Ed w/ Professor Ed Goetz on how the national narrative about Minneapolis misses how zoning and market rate housing are necessary but not sufficient to help lower-income renters 🧵 www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

I know this is a controversial one, but here is me and Gianpaolo Baiocchi making the case for voting yes on NYC ballot proposals 2-4. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/31/y...

Think federal government housing aid is focused on low-income families & largely funded by the Department of Housing & Urban Development? Think again. In new work @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we provide a comprehensive account of the US government's many housing supports, which go far beyond HUD 🏘️

The city failed this family, just as it's failing to hold bad landlords accountable. Those days will end. We will rebuild the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants—a longstanding tool of City Hall that has been defunded and deprioritized. And it will finally have real teeth.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Started the day at the @weact4ej.bsky.social / NAACP breakfast in Harlem for an important discussion about environmental justice, housing, civil rights and the future of our city.

🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social) 👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Most important findings in this thread: 1/11

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

This is absolutely vile oaklandside.org/2025/07/10/f...

So disappointed in this move from Randi and AFT. This is not the orientation that labor needs to be adopting towards AI. Between this, and the AFL-CIO moving to invest in data center projects in places like Wisconsin, we are removing one of the most effective AI countergovernance institutions.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

As a result of significant omissions, Klein and Thompson fail to convey the risks of overcorrecting in the opposite direction: a plain-bagel liberalism that simply hands money over to the private sector with very few or even no conditions at all.

More barbaric plans from this administration www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Essential new evidence about rent control on cities throughout the US from my colleagues at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social. Rent control: —Is associated with a net reduction in rental housing availability —BUT is also associated with increase in units affordable to extremely low income households

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

New NBER Working paper on the big housing question (and one at the core of the "Abundance" agenda): Are regulations making housing scarce and unaffordable? Nope. www.nber.org/papers/w33576

Our Anti-Displacement Assessment Tool (created w/ @lorettaclees.bsky.social & Andre Comandon) for Louisville Metro was profiled today in @shelterforce.bsky.social & @nextcity.org @buoncities.bsky.social nextcity.org/urbanist-new...