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Hey y'all! We've got another entry in our Abolish Rent ( @city.bsky.social, Leonardo Vilchis, @haymarketbooks.org ) dossier up on our website. Drawing on Abolish Rent, @benfteresa.bsky.social argues that policy needs to become a "way station for tenant power." spectrejournal.com/from-policy-...

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Ranjani Srinivasan, the Columbia grad student whose visa was revoked forcing a "self deportation", was scheduled to present their research at the AAG meeting next week. This is an outrageous attack on our colleague and on geographic thought. Share and sign the statement below.

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Important new paper! Housing is one of the sectors that consistently shows up as systemically significant for inflation in our analysis. There can be no doubt it is central to the cost of living crisis.

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The fair housing grants have already been appropriated by Congress, and restricting or canceling them requires an act of Congress. Four nonprofits have filed a class action lawsuit against HUD, DOGE, and Sec. Scott Turner over the illegal grant fund cancellations. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

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DHS apparently based decisions to abduct and deport Venezuelans to El Salvador prison on guesses about the meaning of tattoos and sign language. As @ilyasomin.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social note, procedural due process was totally absent here. Kafka couldn’t concoct such evil buffoonery

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ICYMI: @malcontent.bsky.social 's contribution to our dossier on @city.bsky.social and Leonardo Vilchis's 's Abolish Rent ( @haymarketbooks.org ) is still live on our website. We'll be adding another piece to the dossier the dossier by @benfteresa.bsky.social this Friday (3/21).

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spectrejournal.com/convivir-a-syn… We've got an entry in our Abolish Rent dossier live. Drawing on Abolish Rent (@haymarketbooks.org) and Kristin Ross's The Commune Form (@versobooks.bsky.social), @malcontent.bsky.social argues that communism must traverse the rural/urban divide.

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The (anti-)Trump Vibe Shift: open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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New NBER paper finds that income growth—not housing supply elasticity—is the best predictor of housing prices & quantity: "Our results imply that housing supply constraints are quantitatively unimportant in explaining rising housing costs." www.nber.org/system/files... [Don't shoot the messenger.]

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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

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Chris Bergquist worked in HUD’s Fair Housing office. One of his first cases: a disabled woman who couldn’t shower because her landlord refused to make her unit wheelchair accessible. His team forced compliance. Now he’s been fired in Trump’s purge—as Fair Housing staff face 76.5% cuts nationwide.

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I'd put it the other way round. Scientific method, as a human practice, is intrinsically value laden. What you choose to investigate, what you decide to measure, how you measure, what you ignore, how you deal with uncomfortable results, even who you allow to do it, are all soaked in values.

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Oh hey look, it's a University actually responding to the administration properly.

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By "restricting presidential authority" he means "ensuring that the law passed by Congress is actually followed by the President."

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So long as the Chair of the Appropriations Committee believes the president can ignore the law and rule by decree, no negotiations are possible.

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America's workers are not "falling" into homelessness. They're being pushed. My essay for @nytopinion.nytimes.com:

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An invitation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-y...

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State lawmakers’ eyebrows jumped at a House committee hearing Tuesday, as Georgia State University geographer Taylor Shelton shot off a barrage of statistics about institutional investors’ staggeringly high level of home ownership across Georgia. atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/02/26/g...

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"Over the course of the twentieth century, O’Connor shows, the study of poverty became more about altering individual behavior and less about addressing structural inequality." Perfectly captures my critique of the policy evaluation world. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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"Free markets and personal liberties" is libertarian code for "a boot on your face forever"

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Checking up on this again?

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Congressional District Impact of Medicaid Cuts - find your district: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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"DEI on campus ... was starting to act like many faculty members' direct supervisor and telling them how and what to teach" I'm sorry, what? I've never experienced this myself and I've never heard another faculty member anywhere ever complain about anything remotely like this.

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I want to make it clear that no executive order can change federal law and every executive order trump has signed has expressly disclaimed the intent to. The screenshot is from the DEI EO. That’s before you get to courts actually blocking big parts of it. And yet the overcompliance is legion.

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Important challenge to the increasingly burdensome academic assessment regime isn't proven to yield education benefits. Ann Forsyth challenges us to to stop Planning Accreditation Board's approach (which unrelatedly also includes a role back of DEI) doi.org/10.1177/0739...

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