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

Great Session on the role of data in action/activist geographical research at #aag2025 🔥🔥 Organized by Declan Cullen, Kafui Attoh & @geoplace.bsky.social

Great sessions on "Exploring Class through Housing" at #AAG2025 organized by Chiara Valli & Ismael Yrigoy Cadena

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

New special issue on on Housing Movements & Racial Capitalism w/ @akirarodriguez.bsky.social & Margit Mayer in @politicsandspace.bsky.social & cute team editor photo in Berlin '22 Check out 5 great contributions!!👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Recently, @buoncities.bsky.social affiliates @mollyrichard.bsky.social (@buciss.bsky.social) and @kentoncard.bsky.social (IOC Visiting Urban Scholar & @curaumn.bsky.social) prominently shared their work on housing and good/just cause eviction protections in the U.S. 🔗 www.bu.edu/ioc/2025/03/...

Over 30 local lawmakers across Maryland sent this letter to members of the state Senate JPR Committee, calling for passage of Good Cause Enabling SB651 — WITHOUT amendments creating preemptions, especially related to vacancy control. The bill’s currently on a voting list for today. 👀

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Yesterday I co-published an op-ed advocating for legislatures to pass tenant protections across the country (w/ Edward Goetz, Evan Davis & Jeremy Schwartz) Tenant advocates are pushing to expand tenant rights through #goodcause or #justcause eviction protections. ggwash.org/view/98696/m...

New research shows evictions are correlated with depression among children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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...

HUD helps keep people stably housed. The Trump admin’s proposed cuts could “have a catastrophic effect on homelessness nationwide,” said NHLP’s Deborah Thrope to @juliannemcshane.bsky.social for @motherjones.com

🚨Save our homes🚨 On March 10, we're joining a national day of action to protect tenants and HUD. Get ready to call your elected officials and ask them to stop reckless cuts to HUD's staff and budget! Find your member here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... #HandsOffHousing