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Carl Gershenson

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Sociology, Housing, Climate, Philadelphia Director of Eviction Lab at Princeton University

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Review of applications begins October 15!
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We're hiring! Join the Eviction Lab as a Data Engineer and help build powerful, scalable data tools that inform housing research and policy nationwide. Apply now: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2025
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
One of these research specialist positions is a little different than our typical RS posting: We're hiring specifically for a project on homelessness, and we're hoping to find someone familiar with the world of CoCs and HMIS
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Eviction Lab is hiring! Find more information about our latest job openings here: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
Come work with us. We are looking for research specialists and an administrative assistant. More information at tinyurl.com/evictionlab2025
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
When home heating is less affordable, more people die each winter. That's what our analysis found for a period when LIHEAP was in place. Without LIHEAP, the effect would presumably much larger. Ungated copy of the study here: bit.ly/2JrJfxR
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Totally unusable. I also get fake right coded movie news ("Kathleen Kennedy resigns from LucasFilm!") and whatever the hell crap this is
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
After engaging with a lot of NFL content over the last month (Go Birds!), my FB feed has become infested with Fake NFL News. Obviously no agenda here other than to farm clicks, but what a terrible sign for our information environment.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
On Broad St right now
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
What should I read on homelessness in the UK?
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I'm watching an elementary school spelling bee. A kindergartner asked to spell "eagle" launched straight into the Eagles chant and almost lost it by saying the "s"
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"The order, issued on Friday, would stop landlords from evicting a tenant for violating a term of their lease that would otherwise prohibit them from sheltering others." www.kcra.com/article/news...
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Gov. Newsom order protects tenants housing Los Angeles fire survivors from eviction
The order, issued on Friday, would stop landlords from evicting a tenant for violating a term of their lease that would otherwise prohibit them from sheltering others.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I wasn't complaining! I was happy to see so many people using Septa!
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I tried! Every entrance swamped
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"line"
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Line for Septa after the game
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This looks interesting. NJ Governor Phil Murphy is reportedly going to turn his cannon on exclusionary local zoning laws in his last year in office. A statement is expected as part of his "State of the State" speech this afternoon... www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/01/nj-g...
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To boost affordable housing, Murphy says reform NJ zoning | NJ Spotlight News
NJ governor wants to allow small homes on single-, two-family lots, more housing on vacant land and reduced parking rules for housing near mass transit.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Interactive piece on proportional representation in the NYT today 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
But also thinking about negative effect of rushed moves on a family, there's a world of difference between having one month's notice you need to find a new place (50% YoY hike) and several years notice you need to find a new place (with an anti-gouging law in effect)
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I wish we had better data on this (rent ledgers are very hard to come by). But: 1) anti-gouging laws wouldn't stop the majority of evictions. Just look at the high rate in public housing 2) enough evictions follow an egregious rent hike that anti-gouging laws would help a meaningful number of HHs
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Rooting against Dak Prescott -- feels great. Meanwhile Daniel Jones failed to evoke any emotion me, positive or negative
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Jayden Daniels is so likeable, I hate that I have to root against him for the next 10+ years
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Yeah, it's my favorite along with BotNS. I don't want to spoil anything obviously, but Peace is the work I recommend for friends who are less into genre fiction.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Interesting, I find Peace to be his most accessible (and contender for most beautifully written) novel. Book 1 of Fifth Head is accessible and wonderful as a stand-alone story, but Book 2 really threw me.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I reviewed Brian McCabe and @evarosen.bsky.social 's Sociology of Housing! It "demonstrates how racism and entrenched power have brought us to where we are today: A housing market defined by immense wealth, deep poverty, and persistent inequalities." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives - Carl Gershenson, 2025
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"Nearly 150,000 children experienced homelessness on a single night in 2024, reflecting a 33 percent increase. Children were the age group that experienced the largest increase in homelessness." www.huduser.gov/portal/sites...
huduser.gov
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
If the Trump admin privatizes the GSEs, that will cause mortgage rates and/or insurance costs in high climate risk areas to increase, right? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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The 30-Year Mortgage Wasn’t Designed for Climate Chaos
As house-demolishing weather becomes increasingly common, more Americans will find themselves without a safety net.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We've seen this year how SEPTA's fate hinges on a few votes in the PA assembly. Rapid growth in SEPA before the next redistricting could be the difference between a subway expansion and a death spiral!
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Compare NJ and DE to PA. We need to wait until county level estimates are released to find out if SEPA is keeping up with its neighbors.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Thank you! We couldn't do it without our design partners @jamesminton.bsky.social and team at @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Especially given the quality difference in municipal services
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I enjoyed living in the Boston area and I agree it gets too much hate online. The food scene even had some bright spots esp around seafood. But as a Philadelphian, it broke my heart that I never once ate a good sandwich there
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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 10/12/2024
Philadelphia has a rate of traffic deaths 3x higher than New York City. source: visionzerophl.com/wp-content/u...
In 2020, fatal crashes in Philadelphia spiked. Before
the pandemic, around 90 traffic deaths occurred each
year. In 2020, there were 155. Traffic deaths fell in 2021,
but not to pre-pandemic trends. In 2023, that trend
continued with 123 fatalities. Other cities around the
country experienced a similar increase in fatal crashes.
However, Philadelphia’s per-capita rate of traffic deaths
remains much higher than peer cities like New York and
BostonChart Title: Annual Traffic Deaths per 100,000 Residents

This chart shows the number of traffic deaths per 100,000 residents in six major U.S. cities. The cities are listed vertically, with the number of deaths per 100,000 residents shown to the right of each city name. The numbers are represented by horizontal bars, with the length of each bar proportional to the number of deaths.

Data:

Philadelphia: 8.03 deaths per 100,000 residents (yellow bar)
New York City: 2.72 deaths per 100,000 residents (black bar)
Boston: 5.78 deaths per 100,000 residents (black bar)
Washington D.C.: 6.3 deaths per 100,000 residents (black bar)
Chicago: 6.63 deaths per 100,000 residents (black bar)
Los Angeles: 7.82 deaths per 100,000 residents (black bar)
Additional Information:

The bars are arranged in descending order of traffic deaths, with Philadelphia having the highest rate and New York City having the lowest.
The chart does not include data for all U.S. cities.
It is important to note that this data represents traffic deaths per 100,000 residents, not the total number of traffic deaths.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
here's how the upshot visualized our data www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/u...
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
There's a property on my block with the owner listed as an LLC -- and it gets a homestead exemption. One regex search could net the city hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'm the only very online resident of my block, and also the only one who put Second Trash out.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Nice to see some DoE Loan Programs Office money in Pennsylvania for long-duration batteries www.utilitydive.com/news/eos-ene...
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Eos Energy lands $304M DOE loan for battery plant expansion
The long-duration battery company says it has a $589 million, 2.3-GWh order backlog and $14.2 billion, 59-GWh commercial pipeline.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Woah 🤯
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If someone who didn't have a Bloomberg subscription and knew nothing about South African governance asked you if this ruling would be binding, what would you say?
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Backlash to EU wildlife laws and NGOs was another theme in this movie bsky.app/profile/lara...
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
According to Joe's newsletter, a lot of elected officials didn't know they had homeless children in their district!
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
thanks to Joe Willard for putting this map together
A map showing the counties where 46,714 children experienced homelessness in 2023
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
They're advertising heat pump water heaters on the Eagles game WIP broadcast. No stopping this transition
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
And there we have it, folks. Saudi Arabia, Russia & Kuwait successfully block plastic production curbs. “If we address plastic pollution, there should be no problem with producing plastics,” said Saudi delegate. “The problem is pollution itself, not plastics.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/c...
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Nations Fail to Reach an Agreement on Plastic Pollution
Talks on the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic pollution will continue in coming months, delegates said.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is the movie, currently on Hulu. It was really good. And I hate how relevant it was to the current state of the US www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/m...
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‘R.M.N.’ Review: A Bleak Diagnosis for Romania (Published 2023)
The director Cristian Mungiu, a powerhouse of the Romanian New Wave, examines a village’s explosive reaction to a bakery hiring some foreign workers.
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Others have. There might be some other examples out there too www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A Perfect Storm? Disasters and Evictions
Stable housing is a fundamental platform for individual and collective well-being, and research indicates that a significant disruptive effect of severe environmental disasters is residential displ...
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
More here, this time Hawaii: www.civilbeat.org/2024/11/maui...
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FEMA’s Plan For Maui Wildfire Survivors Lacked Safeguards For Residents
FEMA’s Plan for Maui Wildfire Survivors Lacked Safeguards for Residents
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
A real estate observation: Zillow pretty consistently has Point Breeze valuations at 10-20% below peak. Grad Hospital properties are holding steady.
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? Join us @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social for a webinar on Wednesday Dec 11 at noon PT homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/ele... With: Marc Dones, Chione Flegal @annymoliva.bsky.social homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/ele...
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Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Join the UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative for a webinar to explore the implications of the 2024 election for homelessness on the West Coast and beyond. Margot Kushel, MD, will moderate a...
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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Me watching a movie about ethnic antagonisms in Transylvania
Confused woman looking at complex math equations meme
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