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Housing Policy | Race Relations | Community Development | Reparative Justice Associate Professor - Sociology University of Toronto www.drdantzler.com Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab School of Cities www.housingjusticelab.org
Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
Every lawmaker will have the opportunity to question members of Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration as well as immigration advocates about the package.
"Graphic titled 'Experts Available: EPA CLIMATE ROLLBACK' from Scholars Strategy Network showing five expert headshots with their names, institutions, and expertise areas: Doug Brugge from UConn specializing in occupational and environmental health; Alejandro Camacho from UCLA specializing in processes of regulation; David Konisky from IU Bloomington specializing in climate change at EPA; Scott Moore from UPenn specializing in climate and energy policy; and Nikos Zirogiannis from IU Bloomington specializing in climate and energy policy, Clean Air Act. Background shows an industrial landscape with smokestacks.
📢 The Trump administration’s efforts to rescind the EPA scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger health and welfare is moving toward a formal rollback this week. For reporters covering this, the following experts are available to comment. ⤵️
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@docdantzler.bsky.social's (@utoronto.ca) research examines how and why neighborhoods change and how communities and policymakers create and react to those changes.
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February 2026 marks the 100 year anniversary of Black History Month…
The irony…
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
GIS mapping & analysis are super. They have helped advance knowledge & methods in urban studies (& other fields) in many ways over the last 40+ years or so. But I am afraid there are way too many folks who use these tools poorly or uncritically. I see many bad, misleading maps on a weekly basis. 1/2
Our latest CRI delves into the survey of community needs & concerns conducted by the Moss Park Coalition & explores the importance of community voices when private investments drive development in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (CC Prentiss Dantzler) https://ow.ly/nFoF50XGAir
Methods without theory is madness…
This is the least dismal my Bluesky timeline has been in 10 months so thank you baseball!
Affiliates & friends - can you help us spread the word?
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Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...
Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
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"In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk."
@docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data
Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social…
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I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.
“Reframing the story expands the possibilities of collective action.”
- Willow S. Lung-Aman
(The Right to Suburbia, 2024)
🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda"
✍️ Özatağan et al.
🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.
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Let this year be a year of dreaming…dreaming of what’s next and what could be…
Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…
The U.S. is a young empire but arrogant. It basks in its riches while barely acknowledging people starving, living on the street, literally freezing today…
We don’t have to live this way…
Many scholars often invoke the concept of a “slow death” to denote the many ways of everyday death dealing throws our way. But what would a “virtuous death” be? What would it mean to die admirably?
I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…
I used to have imposter syndrome earlier on in my career but being anxious about time in and of itself - probably from the pandemic and the homegoing of friends and family - makes u question your actions today if tomorrow was never to come…
I think I finally have a decent book idea that allows me to do all the things I want to do. It’s an ambitious project but I’ve been fortunate to engage so many inspiring people over the last decade.
Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…
I learned how to be productive. I learned how to be an academic. And I tried and continue to try to do this the way I want to.
I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work…
I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.
Flexible from January to April. Open to ideas for relatively inexpensive places to visit.
While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…
Well, since my landlord is raising the rent again, it looks like I’m about to be a “nomad” for the rest of my sabbatical this year once I finish up these last few projects by the end of November…
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
The group of Afrikaners in the US call themselves "Amerikaners."
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In other, less self-oriented cultures, and in other times, love was seen as something closer to self-abnegation than to self-comfort. It was seen as a force so powerful that it could overcome our natural selfishness,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
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