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Gabe Schwartz

@gabeschwartz.bsky.social
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Social epidemiologist studying eviction, segregation, policing, & health. He/him. Always learning how to care for plants & people 🏳️‍🌈 🐋🌱

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 13/03/2026
Between 39–51% of American Indian/Alaska Native peoples live on or within 10 miles of reservations, but 73% of deaths from police violence in this group occurred on or near reservations. The authors call for a public health response to these deaths. In PNAS: ow.ly/ziOi50YtsP8
Location of each police violence death against an Indigenous person recorded by the Mapping Police Violence project from 2013 through 2024 (red dots), showing American Indian/Alaska Native reservations (outlined in green) and a 10-mile buffer zone around each reservation (grey). 
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UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Making people move every day, threatening them with arrest, all of those things make (homelessness) worse and not better," said Margot Kushel MD. “By the time there are shelter beds or treatment centers, you’ve lost cooperation from the people you want to help.” ow.ly/hHPq50YKJ9o
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...
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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Housing activists have fought for years to repeal or reform the harmful law, but the real estate industry has used its vast political connections to stop any change. As a result, California continues to lose affordable housing units year after year, with no way of getting them back.”
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The Real Estate Industry Continues to Use the Ellis Act to Destroy Affordable Housing in California
The real estate industry continues to use the Ellis Act to destroy affordable apartments in California, impacting hard-working tenants.
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“From 2001 to 2024, renter incomes rose by 9 percent in real terms while rents rose by 30 percent.” Via: @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
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Six Takeaways from America’s Rental Housing 2026
Our latest report America’s Rental Housing 2026, out today (livestream at 4pm ET), highlights rental market trends and the immense affordability challenges that renters face. At the end of last year,…
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📣 Police violence against Native peoples is among the highest of any group in the US. Yet little quantitative research studies it. In @pnas.org, we ask: are Native people living on American Indian reservations more likely to be killed by police? Short answer: yes, starkly. #episky 🧪 1/
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Renters with Renters United living in horrific conditions are tearing the house down at this hearing to pass the #SafeHealthyHomesAct #SHHA in #Philadelphia city council ✊🏼
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NLIHC @nlihc.org · 27/01/2026
"The Department of Housing and Urban Development is telling landlords receiving federal aid to prove the citizenship and eligibility of nearly 200,000 tenants." www.bisnow.com/national/news/multif…
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HUD Gives Landlords 30 Days To Prove Nearly 200,000 Tenants Are U.S. Citizens
An internal audit uncovered nearly 200,000 tenants without legal immigrant status along with more than 20,000 deceased tenants, HUD said.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This reminds me of how people often have a faulty sense of the dynamic between belief and action, viewing only that action stems from belief --- when, far more often, belief stems from action.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...
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When Volatile Work Schedules Meet SNAP Work Requirements
New policies put low income workers in jeopardy of losing vital supports
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
$98 billion in planned AI data center development was derailed in a single quarter last year by community organizing and pushback, more than all disruptions tracked since 2023. www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
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Data Center Watch Report Q2 2025 UPDATE — Data Center Watch
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
📣 Proud of our new paper revealing that 2 in 5 renters in cancer treatment can't pay their housing or utility bills, along with 1 in 9 homeowners. Cancer patients need housing supports and a healthcare system that doesn't impoverish families fighting life-threatening chronic illness. #episky 🧪
Picture of the title and abstract of the paper. The title is, "Housing Insecurity and Threats of Utility Shut-Offs Among Cancer Survivors in the United States, BRFSS 2022–2023". The abstract reads, "Background: The financial burden of cancer treatment can increase the risk of housing insecurity for patients undergoing treatment and survivors. Objective: To evaluate the burden of housing and utility insecurity among cancer survivors compared to individuals without a cancer history, examine outcome differences by housing tenure (renters vs. homeowners) and treatment status (active vs. post-treatment), and identify predictors of housing insecurity. Methods: We analyzed data from 14 states that completed the Social Determinants and Cancer Survivorship modules of the 2022and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), yielding 5499 respondents with a previous cancer diagnosis (excluding skin cancers) and 61,883 respondents without a cancer diagnosis. We estimated prevalences and fit logistic regressions. Key Results: Cancer history was associated with greater odds of housing (AOR 1.43, 95% CI: 1.18–1.74) and utility (AOR 1.36,95% CI: 1.09–1.69) insecurity, but this varied by treatment timing and housing tenure. Patients currently undergoing treatment were more likely to report housing and utility insecurity (AOR 1.96, 95% CI: 1.28–3.01 and AOR 1.67, 95% CI: 1.06–2.61, respectively) than individuals without a history of cancer. Such insecurity was elevated even after treatment for renters, but not for homeowners. In absolute terms, 34.7% of renters with a cancer history reported housing insecurity, compared to 7.1% of their homeowner counterparts.Conclusions: Cancer diagnosis and treatment can contribute to housing and utility insecurity during and after treatment. Addressing this through targeted interventions within both healthcare systems and social policy may mitigate hardship and improve well-being"
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Philip Palermo @palermo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
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Tim Miller: Well, it's a progressive outlet, so there are a couple of people wearing masks.

Jon Stewart: Oh, there's always two. And you always say, "Oh, are you sick?" 

And they go, "Uh, I don't want to talk about it."
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
On #DavidRemnick. The @newyorker.com has some great science writers. But there is an affinity high-up for COVID contrarianism: Jessica Winter's piece on school closures, Dan Immerwahr's ode to "In COVID's Wake," & the best of 2025 for that book. 1/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/12/2025
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
1-the one extended period where this ratio <2 (still >1 tho) *and* rates were low in absolute terms was post-peak pandemic in the Biden era (2022-4). 2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/12/2025
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 19/11/2025
Black families spend more of their income on energy bills than the average U.S. household – a gap tied to older housing, rental barriers and the legacy of redlining.
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Black families pay more to keep their houses warm than average American families
More than 12 million US households keep their homes either too cold or too hot, sacrificing comfort because they can’t afford to pay their energy bills.
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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Our latest study @jamahealthforum.com shows the harms of work requirements for safety net programs. Women who were subject to harsher requirements and who received less cash assistance from TANF were less likely to breastfeed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu 1/
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“A lot of families are going to have to determine if they’re going to feed their kids today or pay the rent tomorrow.” Via: @nbcdfw.com www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/d... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+
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Could the SNAP freeze lead to a rise in evictions?
Discover how the SNAP freeze could lead to increased evictions among families struggling to pay rent.
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New study finds more generous state safety net policies w/ fewer administrative barriers are linked to better birth outcomes, esp for marginalized groups. Very relevant finding in current policy environment! doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @gabeschwartz.bsky.social @npwf.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/10/2025
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
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US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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The California Policy Lab @capolicylab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
More than 330,000 low-income college students in California use #CalFresh to help pay for their groceries. But they may not receive their benefits in November because of the government shutdown. capolicylab.org/news/analysi... #CaLeg
Infograph has a "We accept EBT" sign.  And text above it reads: "330,000 low-income college students use CalFresh to help pay for their groceries. But, because of the government shutdown, these college students may not receive their November CalFresh benefits."
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“There are now more students who are homeless in [New York City] than the entire Dallas public school system.” citylimits.org/nycs-record-... By @citylimitsnews.bsky.social’s @patrickspauster.com and Jeanmarie Evelly #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
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NYC’s Record-High Student Homelessness Numbers, by Neighborhood and Shelter Type
The number of homeless children attending New York City public schools increased again in 2024-2025—rising for the fifth consecutive school year, and surpassing 150,000 for the first time. Some…
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farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
bsky.app/profile/hong... credit card debt has exploded since 2021 or so - everyone is ringing sht up on the Plastic
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/10/2025
The kids are not alright. Longitudinal research shows that rates of mental health distress among LGBTQ+ youth have increased since 2023, that they're less able to access mental health care, and that nearly 1/4 have been threatened with conversion therapy. www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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LGBTQ+ youth's mental health struggles are getting worse, according to a new survey
A new survey from the Trevor Project found that between 2023 and 2025, LGBTQ+ youth reported an increase in anxiety, depression and suicide ideation.
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
📣 In a new paper using data on >11,000 kids, we find children who are #evicted suffer worse mental health & increased sleep problems... but so do children whose families simply struggle to pay the rent each month, implicating the health of 100,000s of young people in the housing crisis. #episky 🧪
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 17/07/2025
#Philly’s City Council rejected a plan to proactively inspect rentals for health hazards. Even though research shows: relying on tenants to report unsafe housing doesn’t work, and leaves people at risk. By Gabriel L. Schwartz, Drexel University:
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Philly’s City Council turned down a new rental inspection program − studies show that might harm tenants’ health
If housing violations arise, it’s on tenants to defend their rights. It’s a system that may not be effective at preventing poor health.
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Earlier this month, #Philadelphia city council chose not to advance Nicolas O'Rourke's "Right to Repair" bill, which would have created a new rental inspection program. Research suggests that decision may harm tenants' health. My op-ed in The Conversation‬: theconversation.com/phillys-city...
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Philly’s City Council turned down a new rental inspection program − studies show that might harm tenants’ health
If housing violations arise, it’s on tenants to defend their rights. It’s a system that may not be effective at preventing poor health.
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“More than $100 million is set to flow to homelessness prevention programs, including income support for at-risk tenants and eviction defense.” By @latimes’ Andrew Khouri latimes.com/california/s... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
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Los Angeles approves plan to spend nearly $425 million in 'mansion tax' money
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a spending plan for Measure ULA, the so-called mansion tax, directing nearly $425 million into housing and homelessness programs.
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Read closely & you can see the sleight of hand: if unis claim the teaching & research you are *required to do* in order to *get paid* is “academic” and not “work,” the NLRB will let uni admin kick you out of your union & deny you labor protections 🫠 Appalling bs: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Removes 800 Students From Grad Union, Claiming They Are Not Employees | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will remove more than 800 students on research-based stipends from its graduate student union, capitalizing on recent National Labor Relations Board rulings to deal a crushing blow to student ...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly @milbankfund.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In a new Milbank Quarterly guest Opinion, @povertyscholar.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social share public attitudes toward Congress’s proposed Medicaid funding cuts reported in their April 2025 survey.
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Medicaid Cuts Are Undemocratic and Not What the American People Want | Milbank Memorial Fund
Americans from across the political spectrum oppose cuts to Medicaid, believe that the program is effective, and are willing to take steps to defend Medicaid.
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UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Do tenant protection laws improve renters’ health? A new study by BHHI RAP Awardee Dr. Gabriel Schwartz and Lela Chu found little evidence that habitability laws reduce asthma, infections, or hospitalizations. ⬇️⬇️
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
📣 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/
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Breaking coverage @nytimes.com of push to end school desegregation. My team has NIH grant to examine health impacts of exactly this rollback of school desegregation, finding negative impacts on Black kids across their lifespan, & spillover impacts for other kids. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u... 1/
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Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence. This is "crime-free housing" in America. A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda:
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Under ‘Crime-Free Housing’ Laws, Families May Be Evicted for Minor Offenses
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Waivers of SNAP's work requirement are vital because many unemployed workers need more than the 3-month limit to find a new job, especially when the economy is weaker. But even when the unemployment rate is <5%, 1 in 3 unemployed workers need 15 weeks or longer to find work.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Cities won't fund housing—but they *will* fund cops to arrest people for the crime of having nowhere to live.
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San Jose mayor wants new police unit to arrest homeless people - San José Spotlight
More details are emerging about San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's plan to arrest or hospitalize homeless people for refusing offers of shelter — and the city could create a police unit to do so.
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Senator Lydia Edwards @senatorledwards.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Over the course of this week, individuals from across Massachusetts have begun using the new online system to seal past eviction records—and it’s working! If you or someone you know may be eligible, here’s a step-by-step guide to get started:
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Want to wipe an eviction off your record? Here's what to know about the new process in Massachusetts
New rules took effect on May 5 allowing people in Massachusetts to ask a court to wipe past eviction cases off their record after a designated amount of time. State Sen. Lydia Edwards explains the rea...
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Gabe Schwartz @gabeschwartz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please join us tomorrow at the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative to hear from Dr. Diana Hernández about energy insecurity, housing, and health equity! #episky You can RSVP for a Zoom link here: drexel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
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Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
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