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Ann Owens

@annowens.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy. Co-Director, Segregation Tracking Project: edopportunity.org/segregation Co-Editor, City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fascinating discussion of research @evictionlab.bsky.social
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#CiCoSept Have you read our September issue yet? We have four great articles, starting with Niamh Costello's "Hustling, Hassling, and Performing Compliance: Waiting for Homeless Housing in Los Angeles" Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#CiCo25 Three weeks in and we're ready to debut #23 on our list! ‼️ 23rd in our list of top cited articles in the journal's history is Xuefei Ren's "Forward to the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai" ‼️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Forward to the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai
This article examines the role of historical preservation in the spatial restructuring of postindustrial cities through a detailed case study of Xintiandi, a preservation-based redevelopment project ...
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✨Kicked off year 3 of my Sociology of Housing and Homelessness class yesterday! ✨ Readings here: tinyurl.com/sochousing26 I know I'm missing great stuff - there's only so much you can do in 10 weeks. I also have an honors seminar that includes podcasts, which I love teaching with.
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Monday ☀️ It's time to announce the next paper in our countdown of the 25 (erm, 26) most cited papers in the journal's history! #CiCo25 Occupying #24 is..."Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Health: Context or Composition?" by Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky! tinyurl.com/rossmiro
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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Health: Context or Composition?
Does neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) have a significant positive effect on health over and above the personal and household socioeconomic status of the residents who live there, and, if it do...
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sitting with this story by Nikole Hannah-Jones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... Our Segregation Tracking Project data illuminate stubborn segregation in NYC schools (and many other places) and show how schools don't look like their n'hoods as White parents opt out edopportunity.org/segregation/...
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're officially two months out from the deadline for submissions to present at our Emerging Scholars Conference in March! Grad students and postdocs, send us an extended abstract by November 15th for consideration. Submit here: tinyurl.com/cicoconf www.tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo
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Conference_CfS.docx
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will sh...
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Revisit an impactful article by @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social as we count down the 25 most cited articles in the journal's history!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For our 25th most cited article, we had a tie between two fantastic papers. In David Madden's "Revisiting the End of Public Space," NYC's Bryan Park is used as a case for studying the end of public space thesis. Revisit this paper below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Revisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the Public in an Urban Park
A case study of the renovation of New York City's Bryant Park, this article revisits the end of public space thesis. The renovated park signifies not the end of public space but the new ends to which....
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From now until March, we'll be posting an article each week from the 25th most cited to the 1st most cited. This list wasn't easy to put together, and you can read more about our methodology below. An essay on this project by @ksmock.bsky.social will also appear in our December issue!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Get ready for the top 25 (er...26) articles in @cicojournal.bsky.social history! Any guesses on what is #1?
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Each issue, Brian McCabe @ordinarysquares.bsky.social and I offer nuggets in our editors' introduction. This one focuses on what we look for in a review - but submitting authors should read it for tips on what we're looking for. It lays out the evaluation criteria that guide our editorial decisions!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ICYMI in the run-up to ASA: @cicojournal.bsky.social is hosting a conference showcasing the future of urban sociology! 🌟Graduate students and postdocs, submit by 11/15. 🌟 tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo Senior folks, please share widely! @asanews.bsky.social #sociology #CUSS
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Conference_CfS.docx
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will sh...
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Who wore it better? (L)The carpet in the #ASA2026 Exhibit Hall (R) @cicojournal.bsky.social
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Heading to New York? Find us at ASA to get some City & Community swag!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're having a birthday party for @cicojournal.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Grad students and postdocs, please submit your best urban sociology papers. Headed to #ASA26? Find me to get your City & Community sticker!!!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To commemorate the journal's upcoming 25th anniversary, we are excited to announce the Emerging Scholars Conference—an opportunity for grad students and postdocs to showcase their work related to urban sociology—at Georgetown on April 23, 2027. Call for submissions: tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ How does the racial composition of everyday mobility patterns impact non-White arrest rates? New paper by @vachuska.bsky.social answers this question with unique smartphone tracking data from New York City. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Group Threat and the Policing of Mobility: Neighborhood Visiting Patterns and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates - Karl Vachuska, 2026
Research on group threat has identified the racial composition of neighborhoods as significant for understanding spatial variation in racial bias and discrimina...
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is part of the "LIHTC at 40" special issue @houspoldebate.bsky.social Two more great articles from the issue now online: Kuai on LIHTC's impacts on segregation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Fitzpatrick et al on LIHTC's impacts on housing prices www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Does Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Investment Reduce Poverty Concentration and Racial Segregation? Examining Long-Term Effects Accounting for Neighborhood Trajectories
This paper examines how affordable housing enabled by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program affects neighborhood poverty exposure and racial composition over time. It addresses two rese...
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New in @houspoldebate.bsky.social with Carolina Reid and Quinn Underriner @ternerhousing.bsky.social! We show how neighborhoods and schools change around LIHTC development, adding complexity to how we think about access to opportunity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am from Chicago. Why do I sound like a Valley Girl? 🤔 Report here: www.brownspromise.org/statesofsegr... For all your segregation tracking needs: edopportunity.org/segregation
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State Segregation Ranking — Brown's Promise
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Segregation academies ought to be a thing of the past, but they could experience a resurgence—paid for with taxpayer dollars—under the new federal private school voucher scheme" Important new report from @halleypotter.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...
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A New Federal Voucher Program Poised to Ramp Up School Segregation
In rural Northampton, North Carolina, a private Christian school called Northeast Academy is 99 percent White in a county that’s 40 percent White. It
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ Do immigrant neighborhoods face the same eviction rates as non-immigrant neighborhoods? New paper by Leung, Louis, Rangel, and Desmond at the link below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The second book to round out our debut City Books section is Yuki Kato's Gardens of Hope!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I love our new City Books feature! So excited to read all these great new books. If you have a new book in urban sociology and want to be featured, reach out to citycombooks@gmail.com
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of our first City Books is @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social's The Death and Life of Gentrification, which considers the changing meaning of gentrification and the implications of its use to describe a variety of urban processes.
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In 1979, incarcerated men in NY analyzed the link between neighborhoods and incarceration, finding that 75% of NY prisoners came from 7 neighborhoods in New York City. In a new paper, Jessica Simes, Ronald Day, and Louisa Holaday take a new look at the geography of incarceration. bit.ly/4v5bjJt
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Which states have the most segregated schools — and why does it matter? New report coming Monday, June 22! Join us at noon ET to break down the numbers and what state policymakers can do about it. Register here: bit.ly/statesofsegr... @brownspromise.bsky.social x Segregation Tracking Project
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy June 1st! ☀️ First up in our June issue is Jamie Lew's new article on how refugee families facing housing exploitation build alliances with other marginalized tenants, resisting housing inequality and expanding agency through grassroots interracial collaboration. Read more at the link below.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/06/2026
NEW: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate. w/ @opb.org
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A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford
The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
⚠️ Our June issue is now live! ⚠️ In addition to a great set of articles, editors @annowens.bsky.social and @ordinarysquares.bsky.social introduce the new cover and the new City Books section, in which we highlight new books in urban sociology. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New in @cicojournal.bsky.social
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Metro Los Angeles @metrolosangeles.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
D Line Ext opens 12:30pm Friday! Free rides 4am Fri May 8 thru 3am Mon May 11 on Metro 🚇🚍🚲🚐 Celebrate with us 12:30pm-4pm Fri👇🏽
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New in CiCo: Using the 2020 George Floyd protests as a case study, Evan Ferstl finds that walkability is associated with higher protest frequency—both citywide and at the census tract level. A timely reminder about how the built environment can shape political action! See more at the link below.
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Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States - Evan Ferstl, 2026
Social movement scholarship on the emergence of protest has limited engagement with urban scholarship on the spatial production of social relations. Spatial cha...
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New in CiCo: Do college roommate assignments shape where we choose to live later in life? Matt Vogel, Samantha Friedman, and Stefan Ivanov find that students assigned a roommate of a different race or ethnicity are more than twice as likely to choose a diverse dorm room the following year!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#FromtheArchives Twenty years ago, CiCo readers were exploring power in cities through a series of papers in the March 2006 issue. These papers wrestle with how power functions in cities, who benefits most from it, and how we should study it. Revisit this fascinating issue at the link below.
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City & Community - Volume 5, Number 1
Table of contents for City & Community, 5, 1
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#FromtheArchives 10 years ago, CiCo published a special issue on residential segregation, asking authors to consider the role of segregation then and in the future. These essays, exploring racial stratification, opportunity, and urban transformation, are still highly relevant. Revisit here:
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The final Associate Editor to introduce is Orly Clerge! Her work on race, migration, and cities makes her a great addition to the editorial team. She is also the author of The New Noir, an exploration of the making of Black diasporic suburbs. Welcome, Orly—we're thrilled to have you on the team!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The third Associate Editor we'd like to welcome is @jeremylevine.bsky.social! Jeremy's previous work on development established him as a leading voice on the role of nonprofits in urban governance, and his newer work looks at inequality in victim compensation law. We're thrilled to have him!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Jessica Simes (jtsimes.bsky.social) is joining CiCo as an Associate Editor! Her work examines how the carceral system shapes inequality and health. Her award-winning book, Punishing Places, uses spatial analysis to show how incarceration impacts communities. We’re honored to have her on the team!
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Over the next few days, we'll introduce our four new Associate Editors. First up: @philipgarboden.bsky.social, who studies supply-side housing market actors and policy. His work on landlords has shaped how we understand their role in housing markets and communities. We're lucky to have him!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Delighted to be sharing work via the @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social Housing Lecture Series on May 7! Details and RSVP: lewis.ucla.edu/event/people-and-place-in-californias-lihtc-program/
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Submissions for #2026APPAM close on WEDNESDAY! I would love to see your work submitted to the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area. (Yes, it continues to bug me that the conference theme is "50 States..." and the logo only shows 48, but submit anyway!)
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Very excited to share new work on Thursday!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We love a good sociological analysis of transit and infrastructure here at @cicojournal.bsky.social - we'd be delighted to review your paper! Follow the journal to keep up on our journey! (Yes, there is a subway in LA...) #CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky
City & Community journal waiting for the train on a platform in Los Angeles
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Working on an article prompting us to rethink our understanding of urban art and culture? We want to see it @cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is looking fab in DTLA #CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We'd love to review your article on sociological analyses of urban politics for @cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is at LA City Hall. Where are you enjoying our new issue? #CiCointheCity
The journal City & Community with its gorgeous new cover in front of LA's City Hall, a tall white building
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Have a new book of interest to urban sociologists? Fill out the form below for consideration for @cicojournal.bsky.social new City Books feature!
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New look!💅
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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
With our March 2026 issue, we can officially welcome @annowens.bsky.social and Brian J. McCabe as the new editors of City & Community! They are excited to continue publishing the impactful research that the journal is known for. Their editorial introduction highlights the exciting changes to come.
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Editorial Introduction - Brian J. McCabe, Ann Owens, 2026
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