NEW JUA #ARTICLE: ‘The rent eats first’: Did ending the national eviction moratorium increase food insufficiency among renters in the United States? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social

First publication! We show that the Supreme Court’s cessation of the pandemic-era national eviction moratorium increased food insufficiency among US renters with children by 3.17pp, a 20% relative increase. (1/2). Link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/M32SY...

Hoping to join an APPAM panel related to housing instability, food insufficiency, or inequality broadly conceived. Any leads appreciated!

Preliminary USDA data show about 700,000 fewer low-income people received SNAP benefits in November vs. October, another huge one-month drop. This likely reflects disruption from the shutdown & the Republican megabill (H.R. 1)'s unprecedented SNAP cuts starting to take effect.

This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.

Great new housing papers: "Assisted Housing and Changes in Household Composition" by Kristin Perkins shows that receiving federal or state housing assistance stabilizes families doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Preliminary USDA data show that SNAP caseloads fell by 500,000+ people between September & October 2025. While the number of people participating in SNAP has generally been falling in 2025, this larger drop likely reflects disruption from the government shutdown (& data errors).

The Trump administration’s attempts to cut one of the most important funding sources for housing homeless people is making it impossible for service providers to keep families safe and sheltered. NHLP’s Deputy Director Deb Thorpe spoke about why with Roshan Abraham from @shelterforce.bsky.social.

Grateful to have contributed to this story, whose headline—"She's 14 and she's moved 26 times"—says everything about the human toll of America's brutal, disastrously broken housing system.

BREAKING: Federal agents just shot and killed a man in Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses. We condemn this killing and demand ICE and CBP agents withdraw from Minneapolis immediately.

Among US adults, any amount of medical debt increased the risk of experiencing #HousingInstability in the next year by 7 percentage points compared with adults without medical debt. ja.ma/4jDxu4G

Starting in October 2026, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states, some of whom could be forced to deeply cut or even shutter their SNAP programs altogether.

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

We condemn ICE's killing of a Minneapolis woman today and call on federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota immediately. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end its lawless operations before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed.

No. No. No. Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy. Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

Congratulations to the 19 states raising the minimum wage in 2026. But let’s be clear: a $7.25 federal minimum wage is a national disgrace. No one who works full-time should live in poverty. We must keep fighting to guarantee all workers a living wage — not starvation wages.

Housing First is a housing-focused intervention, and it works. Critics cherry-pick evidence to highlight where programs fall short in health outcomes. That’s important — and access to/funding for services should be increased — but the fact remains that housing outcomes improve, and that’s a start.

Homesick focuses on the experiences of migrants of color moving to rural New England to take well-paid jobs and the resulting misrecognition from white residents. This book helps us better understand how to unsettle such processes of exclusion in diversifying spaces https://ow.ly/4htC50Xxhmh

ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.

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.

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

“Low-income tenants who rely on food stamps to feed their families will be immediately faced with difficult choices..." Round up of strategies and protections under federal law to prevent evictions due to loss of SNAP benefits courtesy of @nhlp.bsky.social www.nhlp.org/wp-content/u... #housing+

Update: today, 16.8 million people should have *full* SNAP benefits for November. They don't. Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day. This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth. 🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

Unconscionable. This policy both disregards the robust evidence base and eschews basic decency. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

I’m presenting a couple papers about how public housing reduces homelessness and how eviction moratoria reduce food insufficiency at @appam.bsky.social in a couple weeks. Looking forward to connecting with folks studying housing and social stratification!

Congrats to Prof @zparolin.bsky.social, recipient of the David N. Kershaw Award & Prize, recognising significant contributions to #PublicPolicy & analysis before 40! www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/prof... @inetoxford.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @appam.bsky.social @mathematicanow.bsky.social

HUD today fired two civil rights lawyers who spoke publicly about their whistleblower complaint over the Trump admin's cuts to the office that enforces fair housing laws.

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

After cutting SNAP by the largest margin in history — despicable.

Each year, the Housing Choice Voucher Program enables more than 2 million low-income families to rent housing. Our new research with RAND Corporation, supported by the Cooper Housing Institute, shows how the program can be strengthened so even more families find safe homes. ow.ly/2mqM50WWaPT

📍 ZIP codes matter. Raj Chetty, Eric Chyn, Stefanie DeLuca, John Friedman, Nathan Hendren, Larry Katz, and Bruce Sacerdote respond to claims that neighborhoods don’t shape children’s outcomes. The evidence says otherwise.

The mistake wasn’t building public housing. The mistake was abandoning it. UCLA researcher Richard Kirk lays out a path for revival. 👉 bit.ly/4lx12Af #HousingJustice #HousingEquity #InclusiveDesign

An MIT literature professor discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. Joshua Bennett on what this means for the future of AI and why poetry matters in a world ruled by tech:

UPDATE: Unlawful arrests and forced displacement of homeless D.C. residents expected to begin this morning at 10 AM with federal and local police throwing away tents at 62 encampments; arrests are expected to begin at nightfall to avoid media attention.https://buff.ly/gRAsxWS

🚨🗞️ JOURNALISTS: As the criminalization of homelessness runs rampant in DC & across the country, it's more important than ever to rely on data to get the story right. Here are some useful resources that can help you to fight through misinformation 🧵

People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement.

Thrilled to bring these two papers to #ASA2025! Learning so much from so many amazing researchers. Please feel free to reach out to talk about housing and social stratification!

President Trump’s order criminalizing homelessness is cruel and doesn’t solve the housing crisis. People need housing, not fines and court orders.

We can’t arrest our way out of homelessness.

Cruel, ineffective, and harmful. www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...

Today, @oppinsights.bsky.social released new research illuminating differences in credit access across the U.S. by race, class, and where you grow up. 🔗 shorturl.at/PxYvH

Interested in using intermediate outcomes to better understand causal mechanisms and predict long-term impacts of interventions? Join Prof. Chetty and Prof. Kosuke Imai at the NBER Methods lectures: 📅 Thursday, 7/24, 3 pm 📍 Cambridge, MA for NBER SI attendees, or virtually ⬇️

The Senate just passed a devastating reconciliation bill that will harm tenants who are already struggling to pay rent by taking away their access to food and health care.

“Despite an abundance of new apartments, high rents have left more people than ever cost burdened, and have contributed to a sharp rise in homelessness.” Read the latest report on the State of the Nation’s Housing: www.jchs.harvard.edu...

New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀 equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...

Did you know that more than 1 in 4 adults reported food insecurity in 2024? As Congress considers cuts to the federal #safetynet, an Urban analysis highlights the challenges US households face in meeting basic needs & the potential impact of #SNAP & other federal food program cuts. urbn.is/3DrmZ3Y

Agree--"There is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is a must read. If you want to understand homelessness, the way the economy & our housing policies conspire to leave large swaths of the population destitute and unstably housed--read it. It is gripping and important!

🚨 NEW: A groundbreaking database from the Eviction Lab, the Housing Initiative at Penn, and the Urban Displacement Project reveals how $46B in emergency rental aid was distributed by states, counties and cities. evictionlab.org/pandemic-ren...

PUBLICATION DAY! Pick up a copy of Doubled Up to learn more about how families use doubling up as a private safety net and how these arrangements reshape family life.