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Samara Scheckler

@samarascheckler.bsky.social
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Housing and long-term care researcher at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, urban hiker, fiction and poetry reader, parent to two wild and woolies, cat video watcher

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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I hope you'll join me online tomorrow to talk about our opportunities to improve equity in late life housing!
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Federal rental assistance helps older adults stay in their homes. #housing
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/02/2025
New 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...
Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force and exacerbate the housing shortage nationwide.

More than 30% of construction workers were born outside the US in California, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.
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Pat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie. This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The 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...
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Another example of the high costs of crisis care compared to the much more affordable cost to help people remain housed.
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Imagine ticketing a person in labor for being unhoused instead of calling for emergency medical care. Where are our helpers?
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Patient Advocacy @patientadvocacy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
As 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 ⁠
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2024
NEW: 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.social
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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.”
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
While 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.
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Art Walaszek, MD @walaszek.art · 07/12/2024
Daniel 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.com
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A Tattoo On My Brain
A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Want to hear more from our researchers and staff? Here's a JCHS Starter Pack for you to follow! go.bsky.app/FNQvZsq
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How could anyone who has used health insurance still assume that efficiency and profit taking go hand in hand?
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great example of YIMBY zoning reforms happening in Minneapolis! www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...
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Minneapolis Land Use Reforms Offer a Blueprint for Housing Affordability
Minneapolis 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...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
it 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"
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Affordable is such a relatively term...
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Lynne Cotter @lynnemargalit.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
NIH funding has an #ROI of over $2 for every one dollar spent. #research has a positive benefit on the #economy!
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
More reasons to worry about institutional investors.
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Femme Frugality @femmefrugality.com · 19/11/2024
The #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/
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The ENABLE Act | Femme Frugality
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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Making 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...
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Parking Mandates Are Keeping Kids Out of Daycare - Sightline Institute
But cities can ditch these arbitrary rules and help families out of the daycare desert.
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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 @annymoliva.bsky.social Chione Flegal
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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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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Petition to make "Hi, what are you reading?" the conventional greeting. "How are you doing?" hasn't been appropriate for some time now. Deprecated.
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Sharon Cornelissen @sjccorn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Starting this list … please respond if you work on US national #housing policy issues too and I will add you! 🙏💙 go.bsky.app/5Xzj7gr
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I tried to pull together some housing and homelessness folks! I am sure I missed many. Comment to add more! go.bsky.app/JGmu7Nf
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Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Excited to talk about aging in community! Spoiler - living with low income makes it harder.
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