For Midnight Books recap with Rae: We're fighting to expand tenant protections, rental assistance, eviction defense, and free city bus systems so that no Angeleno falls through the cracks again.

My book is out in the US today! Get in touch for a 40% discount @desireefields.bsky.social @kentoncard.bsky.social @danimmergluck.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Important contribution on the impact of new housing supply on rents coauthored by my @curaumn.bsky.social colleague @tonydamiano.bsky.social 👇🏼

Do luxury apartments lower rents—or raise them? A new study co-authored by CURA’s Tony Damiano examines how high-end development affected nearby rents in Minneapolis during a period of rapid growth. #Housing #Minneapolis www.cura.umn.edu/research/bui...

CURA is hiring research assistants! Head to the UMN Job Search site and search for student jobs using "CURA." hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Jo...

A report from @shelterforce.bsky.social interviews CURA researcher Kenton Card "Right now, we are seeing the largest volunteer grassroots effort that I’ve ever seen, and I study these things for a living." shelterforce.org/2026/02/27/s...

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....

Neighborhoods Now! includes 4 one-day sessions, a follow-up think tank sessions with fellow organizers, a planned field action, and guest speaker programs. Throughout the course, participants will have access to 1-to-1 assistance from CURA staff. www.cura.umn.edu/programs/com...

Join me in calling on the City Council and Mayor to support this effort by testifying at a public hearing of Pause Evictions, Save Lives this Tue 3/3 at 9:30 in the Council Chambers at City Hall (350 S 5th St).

I was interviewed for a new @shelterforce.bsky.social article profiling how tenant organizers have responded to the ICE invasion of Minneapolis, calling for an #EvictionMoratorium. shelterforce.org/2026/02/27/s...

Parents & neighbors have joined forces to defend elementary schools from masked federal agents abducting children in #Minneapolis. Let that sink in. Is that the America you want to live in?

In #Minneapolis, I’m talking w/ my neighbors about having legal observer patrols at our local elementary school because federal agents have been kidnapping children. Let that sink. #StopKidnappingChildren #abolishICE Then I see 👇

Join us for a people-powered night of film and community at Whammy as we watch the silent-era classic Safety Last, on January 26 at 7:30pm! a piece of Los Angeles history that reminds us how storytelling has always shaped this city. Link to register below.

I spoke to the Minneapolis City Council last week about how the academic evidence indicates that an #EvictionMoratorium is an effective & measured tool to maintain community safety — during the #ICE invasion.

I've been living in #Minneapolis over the past year and a half. So I'm going to start sharing some observations that I've made on the ground over the past weeks. Let me know if you'd like me to comment on anything in particular.

I'm very excited to support tenant movement leader @raeforla.bsky.social of @housingnowca.bsky.social launch a powerful campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles!! 💰 support her if you can 💰 Learn more about it below👇👇🔥🔥

Congratulations to Dr. James Sirigotis, who defended his dissertation Resilient Optionality: (Infra)structures of Climate, Feeling, and Finance at UC Santa Cruz. Sirigotis offers a comprehensive account of how capitalism now mirrors the logic of financial options, a truly brilliant work.

Zohran Mamdani went to the White House as a proud — and electorally successful — democratic socialist. And Trump, in one of the most surreal moments in modern US politics, seemed to accept that reality. Here’s the story of the day Trump said, “I feel very confident that he can do a very good job.”

Love fest in the White House today btw @realdonaldtrumppar.bsky.social & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social – a twilight zone experience to watch a sitting president encourage a Democratic Socialist mayor-elect www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzw...

Will New Yorkers will settle for a progressive mayor or build the assemblies, cooperatives, and networks needed to support lasting transformation? A radical municipalist take on Mamdani’s victory by @yvonnegraphy Read at nonprofitquarterly.org/will-mamdani...

#Minneapolis community!! Check out #zAmya Theater Project's premiere of "Living in America: The Waiting List is Full." zAmya combines lived experience & artistic expression to inspire communities to work for housing justice for all.

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Great op-ed by my colleagues Tony Damiano & Ed Goetz @curaumn.bsky.social on how "we’re seeing haves & have-nots with #Minneapolis rents." [link below]

Up next at #ACSP2025 I’m speaking about just cause eviction protections from advocacy research developed w/ @rentersunitemd.bsky.social & @curaumn.bsky.social

"Does tenant organizing improve housing quality & health?" 🔥 Fascinating new research by @midwesterly.bsky.social, Drew Dearwood & @alexkarner.bsky.social on the housing-health intersection out of UT Austin working with community org Basta! #ACSP2025 —> Check out their findings👇

Seniors in Cincinnati are forming a #TenantUnions to claim rights & affordable rents. They demand to collectively negotiating w/ out-of-state landlord to prevent new renovations from displacing residents. Video here: www.fox19.com/video/2025/1...

Great news!! Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool! Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!! www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through the Tenant Union Federation to demand collective bargaining.

"Who can speak, when, on what subjects & from what platforms is determined by historical context & differentiated by race, gender, class, ideology & politics. ..." —Robin DG Kelley in @bostonreview.bsky.social

#TenantUnions can be funny too. Comedy & music as fundraising tools used by KC Tenants Union www.axios.com/local/kansas...

New film shows @sanders.senate.gov speaking to #MAGA voters in West Virginia about the struggles of working class people. His message resonated. Well done @moreperfectunion.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Read everything by Robin DG Kelley, and esp. on such an important topic.

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online. Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

Should lawmakers limit rent price gouging & evictions after wildfires? Adhiti Bandlamudi's new legislation #SB522 extends tenant protections to buildings destroyed from wildfires in California. www.kqed.org/news/1205185...

*How do crises impact policy debate?* I'm thrilled to share my new article in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social w/ ‪@acomandon.bsky.social‬ (& Drew Messamore) that Andre & me began while at @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social !

#ICYMI: #NLIHC released a report that shows how the National Housing Trust Fund remains an essential source of gap financing for affordable homes. See how each state used their funds awarded in 2020: nlihc.org/resource/n...

This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...

Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing

Great work from CURA post-doc @kentoncard.bsky.social! nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

How can research inform policy change? My team worked w/ tenant advocates from across the country to debunk the landlord lobbyist trope that eviction protections for tenants hamper the rate of construction. Our model & evidence linked below in this @shelterforce.bsky.social article👇

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore." If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇 antipodeonline.org/geographies-...

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

I'm excited to be part of a community conversation & symposium today on "Home Economics" at the infamous Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

This op-ed by Kayla Giordano on "The truth about #justcause #eviction & #HousingSupply" cites our research at @curaumn.bsky.social ctmirror.org/2025/04/02/t...

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

In our most recent PSL Demo Day, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, @kentoncard.bsky.social , and Andre Comandon talk about their project creating an open source tool to assess housing displacement risk.

Instead of weaponizing efficiency to bludgeon government, let's cultivate more responsive, effective government. My new white paper @responsivegov.bsky.social argues for governance rooted in "the robust & systematic centering of the voices of the denizens who most rely on public social programs."

New issue alert! Featuring a Theme Issue on Housing Movements in Racial Capitalism eds. @kentoncard.bsky.social @akirarodriguez.bsky.social & Margit Mayer journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPC/curr... #geosky #academicsky #geography #politics #political #space #RacialCapitalism #SocialMovements #Housing