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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ngl I'm starting to get pretty annoyed by press conferences and headlines touting a bill that has so many loopholes as to be completely meaningless when it comes to reining in corporate landlords

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Really excited to share my latest paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social on mapping (a more expansive understanding of) absentee housing ownership in Atlanta! 🗺️🏘️📌 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This line from the NYT piece about college radio is deeply ironic to me in particular, as one of my recurring nightmares involves being mortified at forgetting how the radio equipment works and leaving extensive amounts of dead air time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

Screenshot of New York Times article that reads "For the people who make it run, the random and sprawling appeal of having to fill hours of airtime is the draw. In an era of polish, perfection, and increasing corporate consolidation, these student stations can feature seconds or even minutes of “dead air.” But when it’s working, between each set of unusual and handpicked songs, an actual human being with knowledge and heart will explain why they care — and why you should too. The results can be deep, surprising, incredibly human, and wildly satisfying."

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?

Screenshot of a disclosure from an Atlanta Civic Circle story about extended stay hotels, which reads "Reporting tools included, DALL-E for illustrations, DataWrapper for graphs, and ChatGPT for research and readability. Have questions or comments about this series or have ideas for another ACC Explores? Send us an email, info@atlantaciviccircle.org."

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

very upsetting when your wife, who studies environmental conservation, refuses to study prairie dog habitat conservation even though this organization has the cutest logo in the entire world

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I don't care what people have to say about SGA, because I say CAYUTS. #BBN

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If you're a candidate for local elected office - especially in Atlanta - wearing these boots is a major 🚩🚩🚩

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Whatever the potentially valid reason may be, the symbolism here is... something.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

New research out from friends at @pestakeholder.bsky.social shows that private equity firms own 10% of all apartment units across the United States, and upwards of 20% of all apartments here in Georgia, the highest share of any state pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...

Choropleth map showing the percentage of apartment units owned by private equity by state across the United States. Georgia is highlighted showing that 22.8% of apartment units are owned by private equity firms

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Not sure if I've got any friends in Pittsburgh who don't already know about this, but I'll be giving a talk at Pitt this Friday, 4/11 at 10:30am on my research into the geographies of absentee housing ownership in Atlanta. Come thru if you can!

Poster for the Roscoe Robinson Seminar Series on Equity in Local and Urban Policy at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This tidbit about the connections between different segments of the housing market through their shared private equity owners is a pretty apt example of the kind of stuff we're actually up against, and what having an appropriate lens helps one to see and understand

Screenshot of article text reading: "These hotels prey on people’s desperation, and they’re enormously profitable. The same Wall Street investors and private equity firms buying up vast swaths of America’s rental housing stock are also buying up these hotels. In 2021, Blackstone and Starwood Capital Group purchased Extended Stay America for several billion dollars. The same private equity firms pushing people out of their rental housing are also cornering the market on the very places the evicted are forced to go when they lose their stable housing—and profiting off of that."

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Couldn't have said it better than @brian-goldstone.bsky.social in this new interview... www.thenation.com/article/cult... Some of my dearest friends & family live in California, but if your analysis of housing starts and stops there, I'm really not interested in anything you have to say

Screenshot of article text reading "Having said that, for all that makes the city unique, I would argue that Atlanta is more representative of what cities across the country are experiencing than the places where housing and homelessness stories tend to be covered—cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Those places aren’t necessarily aberrations but more extreme versions of what cities like Atlanta are on their way to becoming. The lack of tenant protections in Georgia is actually the norm in much of the country. Widespread displacement and the wholesale remaking of former working-class neighborhoods is occurring everywhere, not just in Atlanta but in cities like Austin and Charlotte, Nashville and Seattle. It’s happening throughout the US."

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We're only "halfway through Day 1" and I'm already up to eight emails and one text message.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Advisor and advisee not beating the "they dress the same" allegations at #AAG2025

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Like with everything in the world, there's a geography to Girl Scout Cookies...

Map showing the source of Girl Scout Cookies across the continental United States

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So the dipshit libertarian economists are still out here calculating rates of institutional ownership based on inconsistent denominators and claiming it's definitive proof that corporate landlords aren't a problem 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"First, the trend of large financial firms buying homes is overstated. The number of US homes owned by private equity firms is about 500,000 — or less than 1% of the 145 million-plus housing units in the US. Looking at institutional investors more broadly, the five largest own about 2% of the housing stock, a noticeable but still not huge proportion. As for the flow of homes entering the market, investors are buying about 16%."

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy holidays from everyone’s two favorite Kentucky-born geographers! 🎄🎅

Taylor crouching next to Ellen Churchill Semple's grave

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

this is one reality TV show I haven't watched, but I can always appreciate some more GSU reality TV excellence

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pepperoni is all checked in and ready for SEDAAG! #PhDog

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Last one until next year. See you soon, old friend.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

One of a couple ironic things about this signage on GSU's campus is that the only thing preventing people from enjoying the campus greenway has been the as-yet-unfinished construction on a full half of it (pictured in background) that has been ongoing since the Fall semester 🙄

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

And with three of the most anti-climactic, emotionally detached sentences ever written... YA BOY'S GOT TENURE! 🥳🎉 (Not that it means a whole lot in the state of Georgia anymore)

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

mmhmmmmmm 💰💰💰 www.cobbcounty.org/water/engine...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Gonna guess that there's a pretty good chance this is the first time books by David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre and Cedric Robinson have appeared in the background of an Atlanta local TV news interview The whole thing is here, in case you're interested: www.wsbtv.com/news/local/3...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Given that ShotSpotter may be the only policing technology that Atlanta *doesn't* employ, let's take a quick look at how Louisville shapes up when comparing their distribution to the city's racial geographies... 🧐🤔😑 via www.wired.com/story/shotsp...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

What's going on with the Kansas-Oklahoma border that the value of a half-court shot fluctuates by 1000%?

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Excited to share my new paper with @ericseymour.bsky.social out now in the Annals of the AAG, where we demonstrate the importance of untangling corporate landlord networks for accurately measuring the extent + spatial concentration of their holdings 📝🔗👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #geosky

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Anyone know a student looking for a fully-funded ($25k/year + tuition waiver) master's degree focused on community-based environmental research? Tell them to apply to the CSAW program here at Georgia State! For more info on applying, see: geosciences.gsu.edu/csaw/applica... #geosky

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Why is my university's fundraising office sending me a automated birthday video... *checks notes* ... six months, three weeks and two days before my next birthday?

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

your boy not only got the pull quote treatment from the AJC, but he also got described as a "housing expert" www.ajc.com/news/georgia...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Honestly, shout out to the @nytimes.com staffer who got to caption this picture. 10/10 no notes

Picture of a person eating a slice of cheese pizza, with the caption "Cheese delivery system"

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Guys we're going to do a race science on Pepperoni

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

I could not be more excited to share this new paper co-authored with my former MS student Carys Behnke on the changing geographies of residential rooftop solar in Atlanta and their connections with ongoing processes of gentrification Check it out! 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I 1000% plan on framing this portrait of my dog, drawn by my four year-old niece just now

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

The wife is currently earning big time points in my family group chat by sharing this picture...

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Today marks three years with this crazy little dog. She's cost us an arm and a leg this year and is constantly shitting in the bed, but somehow we keep loving her even more every day. 🍕🐕 #PepperoniMeansFamily #PeppyGang

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

How am I supposed to get any work done when I've got this sweet little dog ear in my way? 😭

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

If you've not already seen it over on the other site, I'm excited to share my new paper - written with @ericseymour.bsky.social, Steve Sherman & Josh Akers - which provides some new foundational evidence to debates around corporate-owned single-family rentals www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Happy Halloween from Pepperoni and family! 🎃👻

Picture of a couple and their dog dressed up as characters from Beetlejuice

Picture of a dog dressed up as Beetlejuice

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Apologies for the humblebrag, but... It's pretty cool to have this particular paper hit this milestone, given that it was based on a dissertation project that fell apart and was published in a special issue that initially rejected my abstract submission.

Screenshot of Google Scholar showing the paper "The 'actually existing smart city'" with 1000 citations

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Came across this archival gem in the 1968 Georgia State yearbook... seems like I've been doing geography wrong all these years without picking up a smoking habit! #geosky