Two rising leaders in New York and Los Angeles are pushing for a fundamental revolution in urban housing politics: A unified progressive movement centered on renters instead of homeowners www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
As affordability continues to deteriorate, the number of cost-burdened households in the US rose to record highs in 2024, with 43.5 million households spending over 30% of their income on housing, and 21.6 million spending over half. @pjwhit.bsky.social
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/housing...
🚨Postdoc alert!
@harvardpopcenter.bsky.social is now accepting applications for 2026-2028 Bell Fellowship! Apply by March 3: popcenter.harvard.edu/postdoctoral...
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I voted no against a resolution to unilaterally oppose SB79 today, not because I am in total agreement with the design of SB79, but because our housing crisis is too dire for us not to engage constructively with this bill and its goals: to build more housing near transit in LA.
"This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet. The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."
Full statement at homelesslaw.org/statement724...
Housing Discrimination is Illegal in California Landlords cannot discriminate based on race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, source of income, or other protected characteristics. Landlords are never allowed to harass or retaliate against a tenant by disclosing their immigration status to law enforcement. Tenants have the right to housing documents in a language they can understand.
Californians: remember it is illegal for landlords to discriminate and retaliate against tenants or push tenants to move out by threatening to disclose a tenant’s immigration status.
CA tenants — no matter their immigration status — have a right to safe housing.
Latino tenants sued their landlord. A lawyer told them they would be 'picked up by ICE.'
Criminalizing homelessness doesn’t reduce it. A new national study proves that bans on sleeping outside don’t work.
Read: bit.ly/4nyBRPU
#housingpolicy #endhomelessness #shelterforce
✅ The highest monthly mortgage payment on record
✅ The highest median existing home price
✅ A record number of renters with cost burdens
✅ A record number of billion-dollar weather-related disasters in a 2 year span
2024 was a year full of housing records.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/year-re...
"It would have a devastating impact on families.”
www.npr.org/2025/06/04/n...
By @npr.org's @jenniferludden.bsky.social
#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
New from @dgsomucla.bsky.social National Clinician Scholar Program fellow Cecile Yama: The 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit reduced energy insecurity (difficulty paying utility bills) among US families. Open Access at @amjpublichealth.bsky.social ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....
📣 Poor housing conditions like mold, cockroaches, peeling paint, & dilapidation harm health. States have policies to protect tenants from those exposures, but until now, no one ever tested whether they work. In a new paper, we find these policies are failing: 🧵 #episky 1/
For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
News outlets aren't doing nearly enough to sound the alarm about Trump's proposed decimation of federal housing programs.
We're talking catastrophic cuts that would put millions at risk of eviction and homelessness—making an already brutal crisis even worse.
And it's barely being covered.
What would House Republicans' $300 billion #SNAP cut mean? Millions of low-income people would lose some or all of the food assistance they need to afford groceries.
We've started crunching the numbers on the deepest cut to food assistance in history:
Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley.bsky.social, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 1/
Prettier version of my chart + a Difference in Differences showing changes in the supply of market rate housing have large impacts on prices.
Areas that saw more homes destroyed during the Los Angeles fires have, on average, seen 4% larger post-fire price increases.
Congress will decide. But housing aid takes a major hit in the White House budget request. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
New from me:
"...advocates should be prepared to make a compelling case against any cuts to housing programs. Unfortunately, merely arguing that there should be a right to affordable, decent, and stable housing will be insufficient to convince many to maintain federal funding for these programs."
Dr. Achyuth Sriram of @dgsomucla.bsky.social Pediatrics sharing his important work on the Child Tax Credit at #PAS2024
“A 90-day [PEPFAR] funding freeze would result in 60K [95% UI: 49–71 thousand] excess HIV deaths”
This increases to 74K excess HIV deaths [95% UI: 63–89 thousand] for a more realistic scenario “assuming near-total system collapse due to program dependencies”
@thelancet.bsky.social
Undercover tests reveal Southern California landlords are still turning away tenants using Section 8 vouchers, five years after state law made such discrimination illegal.
My @laist.com story breaks down the results of recent fair housing testing.
Important new study by @gabeschwartz.bsky.social & colleagues!
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
Families will die without LIHEAP.
Bee's home filled with ash during the wildfires. Holly pays $350/month to heat her studio apt.
Desperate for safety & change, both turned to a trusted source: the tenant union.
The climate crisis hits tenants hardest, but tenants are fighting back. I wrote about it in @shelterforce.bsky.social
I'm getting asked by people whether they should pivot from #healthequity work or somehow rebrand it.
All I can say is that if you care about an issue you should continue to work on it. Further, it doesn't seem to matter what you call it. Those attacking this area don't care what you call it.
We've just launched a new resource that tracks the Trump Administration’s unlawful and harmful actions to reshape the government, highlighting the impacts on low- and moderate-income people and essential programs: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
