New research on emergency rental assistance during the pandemic not only went to neighborhoods and households in need but also had long lasting, positive effects after receiving assistance (e.g., less likely to be displaced). Report coming soon.

The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

So many businesses rely on US Census Bureau data for decision-making. And the commercial data they buy? It's modeled from Census data. The downstream consequences of this could be dire for our economy. www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...

Come to the first screening (May 7) of "Evicting the American Dream", a powerful documentary on eviction and homelessness in the U.S. I'm honored to be part the project and to be on the panel. See the trailer and more at sunnyvalepres.com/pda-film/ Let me know if you want to host a screening.

My first thought after watching this is I need to make a space to hide people in my home... Reminds me of the books I read about hiding Jews during WWII.

If the Trump administration makes cuts to HUD, it would be “outright wrong,” Steve Berg, CPO, National Alliance to End Homelessness. “And we know what the result of that is going to be. It’s going to be more people living on the street, more people dying on the street.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/u...

Apparently, the University of Washington School of Medicine has frozen all non-clinical hiring in response to the Trump/Musk administration attacks on science and science funding. Destroying healthcare to own the libs.

Some Tenants Could Get Only One Day’s Eviction Notice, Under Federal Bill www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/r...

HUD is struggling to meet even a fraction of the country's need at current funding levels & the Secretary is bragging about the richest man on Earth finding $260 million in mystery savings? This is so far removed from reality.

Tax cuts for the wealthy don’t pay for themselves. House Republicans want to take food away from people to pay for them.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

List of data rescue efforts docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Data heros. Harvard law just released an archive of data.gov! lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

The path forward requires vigilance, solidarity, and proactive defense of democratic institutions. As history shows, silence in the face of incremental authoritarianism only enables its growth.

Stay in the know. He’s going after Lutheran services now.

For researchers/anyone needing data that’s getting wiped from gov websites, check out archive.org. For example here’s public health data recently deleted from the CDC archive.org/details/2025... I also anticipate census disruptions eventually. Check out nhgis.org for that. Keep up the work!

New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So the hiring freeze rescinded my upcoming grant with the VA. Also impacted several other things. So I might be out of a job after my current grant runs out. I wouldn’t be surprised if this raises unemployment by several points soon. Both thru direct and indirect effects of the freeze.

Trump is directing ICE agents to enter schools and snatch kids at bus stops

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

I pray this helps some of you today. We have a duty to Dr. King whose life was taken because he dared demand that this country face itself, to demonstrate that his work & sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s do it together. Please share. And subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

2024 saw an 18% increase in homelessness, largest increase in recorded history. Read the 2024 HUD Congressional Report on Homelessness here: www.hud.gov/press/press_... apnews.com/article/home...

Really glad to know about this piece! We must continue to question the "efficiency" of eviction courts. lpeproject.org/blog/who-say...

3. That this has downstream consequences. Replicating recent published work with OpenAI LMs, we show that we would reach very different conclusions if relied on different LMs by the same company...

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

Love hearing about my old stomping grounds bringing some truth.

Why does flouride in water matter? CSDE affiliate Dr. Chi weighs in www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org/public-healt...

While in the middle of a housing crisis, software co's are pushing rents higher. Recent analysis by the White House is showing how price gouging software has increased the cost of rent. For example, 68% of landlords in Atalanta were charging $181 more a month. www.axios.com/2024/12/17/r...

Testimony on the state of #eviction in #Washington State (40 mins in) tvw.org/video/senate...

Video of testimony is 40 mins in tvw.org/video/senate...

#RightToCounsel has had amazing success with 81% of tenants represented secured permanent housing, 56% remaining in the same home! These programs work! civilrighttocounsel.org/wp-content/u...

@timthomas.bsky.social will be testifying at the #WA State Senate Committee on Housing Tomorrow to discuss disturbing #eviction trends in the state. 2024 will see the highest filing counts in the state's recorded history. However... datawrapper.dwcdn.net/RfnOz/3/ evictionresearch.net/washington/

60 new CA housing bills were signed into law and will start Jan 1, 2025. Read Berkeley's Terner Center post about these new laws. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/califor...

#Evictions are far above historical average in #WashingtonState. New data shows King, Spokane, and Clark Counties saw the highest 12-month count in recorded history. This increase follows gradual lifting of pandemic protections in July 2023 (e.g., #EPRAP & the Eviction Resolution Pilot Program.

Terner Center at Berkeley is looking for 3 postdocs. Great place to work on housing, climate, policy, and homelessness. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04357

Cabin writing retreat in the middle of nowhere. Who’s in?

Please tell me I'm not the only one who misinterpreted the ambiguous federal "Award Information" only to find out you're working with 80% less than you first thought.

#ASA2024 - I am organizing the General Session on Mathematical Sociology. If your work is in the area of Math Soc, Data Science, etc you should consider sending your ASA paper here! www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...

Harvey IL city police just boarded evictees inside their home. This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in a while. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcxmrfj/

It's probably been done, but...

#California #evictions are much higher in larger counties than they were before the pandemic. We'll have a state profile using these data up soon. calmatters.org/housing/home...

Our Eviction Research Network team has a new Oregon state profile up.

I wanna make one of these for rent.

Using #datascience for #socialgood! Here's a story about a displacement study we did in #SLC, now informing laws. www.sltrib.com/news/2023/10...

40% of renters felt pressured to leave while 1 in 10 were forced out www.huduser.gov/portal/pdred...