Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I hope you'll join me online tomorrow to talk about our opportunities to improve equity in late life housing! 011
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Federal rental assistance helps older adults stay in their homes. #housing 030
Reposted by Samara SchecklerYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/02/2025New research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that mass deportations would likely worsen the housing shortage by decimating the labor force. Immigrants make up >23% of the construction workforce & more in FL, TX. About half are estimated to be undocumented immigrants. www.urban.org/urban-wire/m... 1222660
Reposted by Samara SchecklerPat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie. This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight. 351118548
Reposted by Samara SchecklerPhil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou... 28828481
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Another example of the high costs of crisis care compared to the much more affordable cost to help people remain housed. 030
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Imagine ticketing a person in labor for being unhoused instead of calling for emergency medical care. Where are our helpers? 040
Reposted by Samara SchecklerPatient Advocacy @patientadvocacy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024As people live longer, they are burdened by disease, a new study from the American #Medical Association shows. Americans live w/ diseases for an avg of 12.4 yrs, an increase from 10.9 in 2000. US Women spent on average 2.6 more yrs sick than men. #Medsky #DisabilityRights #ACA #ChronicIllness 182
Reposted by Samara SchecklerProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2024NEW: Maine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them. For those who are evicted from public housing in Maine, experts say the consequence “is almost certainly homelessness.” w/ @bangordailynews.bsky.socialpropub.liMaine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them.For those who are evicted from public housing in Maine, experts say the consequence “is almost certainly homelessness.” 12409162
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024While household demographics are typically categorized according to the characteristics of the householder, half of the 13.5 million multi-race households in the US are categorized as white using this method. 061
Reposted by Samara SchecklerArt Walaszek, MD @walaszek.art · 07/12/2024Daniel Gibbs is a retired neurologist who has #dementia due to #Alzheimer's. He wrote the book, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease." I haven't read his book, but his blog has lots of great information, opinions & experiences. tattooonmybrain.comtattooonmybrain.comA Tattoo On My BrainA neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease 154
Reposted by Samara SchecklerHarvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Want to hear more from our researchers and staff? Here's a JCHS Starter Pack for you to follow! go.bsky.app/FNQvZsq 5218
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 07/12/2024How could anyone who has used health insurance still assume that efficiency and profit taking go hand in hand? 100
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Great example of YIMBY zoning reforms happening in Minneapolis! www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...pewtrusts.orgMinneapolis Land Use Reforms Offer a Blueprint for Housing AffordabilityMinneapolis was once among the cities whose zoning policies prevented sufficient housing construction. In the early 2000s, the city maintained strict requirements related to parking, land use, and bui... 062
Reposted by Samara SchecklerJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024it is funny how much the politicized version of immigration economics discourse is "Immigrants supply labor but do not demand labor, thus lowering wages for Americans. Except in the housing market, where immigrants demand housing without supplying it, thus driving up prices for Americans" 1953383
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Affordable is such a relatively term... 000
Reposted by Samara SchecklerLynne Cotter @lynnemargalit.bsky.social · 22/11/2024NIH funding has an #ROI of over $2 for every one dollar spent. #research has a positive benefit on the #economy! 052
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024More reasons to worry about institutional investors. 020
Reposted by Samara SchecklerFemme Frugality @femmefrugality.com · 19/11/2024The #ENABLEAct preserves ABLE to Work, the Savers Credit & 529 rollovers past 2025. Makes it permanent, in fact. It’s bipartisan. It’s passed the Senate. Learn how to help it pass the House at this link. This is an achievable goal. #disability #personalfinance femmefrugality.com/enable-act/femmefrugality.comThe ENABLE Act | Femme Frugality 042
Reposted by Samara SchecklerCatie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Making parking fully flexible for daycares is something any community can do to make families lives easier right now! More daycare openings with no taxpayer money at all. A win-win. 1/ www.sightline.org/2024/11/19/p...sightline.orgParking Mandates Are Keeping Kids Out of Daycare - Sightline InstituteBut cities can ditch these arbitrary rules and help families out of the daycare desert. 23812
Reposted by Samara SchecklerMargot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Election 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 @annymoliva.bsky.social Chione Flegalhomelessness.ucsf.eduElection 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? | Benioff Homelessness and Housing InitiativeJoin 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... 074
Reposted by Samara SchecklerErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Petition to make "Hi, what are you reading?" the conventional greeting. "How are you doing?" hasn't been appropriate for some time now. Deprecated. 2463848303
Reposted by Samara SchecklerSharon Cornelissen @sjccorn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Starting this list … please respond if you work on US national #housing policy issues too and I will add you! 🙏💙 go.bsky.app/5Xzj7gr 184720
Reposted by Samara SchecklerMargot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I tried to pull together some housing and homelessness folks! I am sure I missed many. Comment to add more! go.bsky.app/JGmu7Nf 175312
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Excited to talk about aging in community! Spoiler - living with low income makes it harder. 010