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Dr. Tim Thomas

@timthomas.bsky.social
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Interested in liberation research and housing people. Research Director UCBerkeley Urban Displacement Project Director UCB Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social evictionresearch.net

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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to release this new joint study on pandemic #eviction rental assistance. Bottom line, it works! And we should advocate for more rental assistance moving forward!
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Seattle screening of "Evicting the American Dream" followed by a panel discussion - Friday, November 7th at 7pm - 415 Westlake Avenue North
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"Evicting the American Dream" With Panel Discussion
Screening of the newly released documentary "Evicting the American Dream" followed by a panel discussion with the director and more.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New research on emergency rental assistance during the pandemic not only went to neighborhoods and households in need but also had long lasting, positive effects after receiving assistance (e.g., less likely to be displaced). Report coming soon.
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So many businesses rely on US Census Bureau data for decision-making. And the commercial data they buy? It's modeled from Census data. The downstream consequences of this could be dire for our economy. www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...
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Brain drain at Census Bureau has employees warning about the country's statistics
Staff departures and survey cuts are roiling the federal agency in charge of producing census results, job numbers and other key statistics as Trump officials continue to slash the U.S. government.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Come to the first screening (May 7) of "Evicting the American Dream", a powerful documentary on eviction and homelessness in the U.S. I'm honored to be part the project and to be on the panel. See the trailer and more at sunnyvalepres.com/pda-film/ Let me know if you want to host a screening.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My first thought after watching this is I need to make a space to hide people in my home... Reminds me of the books I read about hiding Jews during WWII.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
If the Trump administration makes cuts to HUD, it would be “outright wrong,” Steve Berg, CPO, National Alliance to End Homelessness. “And we know what the result of that is going to be. It’s going to be more people living on the street, more people dying on the street.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/u...
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The death of 2 homeless children in frigid Detroit raises questions about a flawed system in peril | CNN
The tragedy has the city reevaluating how it connects homeless families with shelters amid fears federal support for people in or on the precipice of homelessness could wane as the Trump administratio...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/02/2025
Apparently, the University of Washington School of Medicine has frozen all non-clinical hiring in response to the Trump/Musk administration attacks on science and science funding. Destroying healthcare to own the libs.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Some Tenants Could Get Only One Day’s Eviction Notice, Under Federal Bill www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/r...
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Some Tenants Could Get Only One Day’s Eviction Notice, Under Federal Bill
Legislation would end tenant protections that were first put in place during the pandemic.
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Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org · 13/02/2025
HUD is struggling to meet even a fraction of the country's need at current funding levels & the Secretary is bragging about the richest man on Earth finding $260 million in mystery savings? This is so far removed from reality.
Screenshot of an X post from Scott Turner (@SecretaryTurner) posted on February 11, 2025, at 5:55 PM:

Text of the post: "Working with @DOGE, we have identified $260 million in savings at @HUDgov.

The American taxpayer is no longer writing a blank check for federal contracts and programs.

Americans voted for reform and we’re delivering it for @POTUS."

Below the text is an embedded image featuring a split-screen news broadcast. On the left, Scott Turner is speaking to the camera. On the right side of the split-screen, is an image of the HUD building .

At the bottom of the image, a news banner displays: "REAL AMERICA'S VOICE
SCOTT TURNER
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
THE CHARLIE KIRK SHOW”
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Tax cuts for the wealthy don’t pay for themselves. House Republicans want to take food away from people to pay for them.
A bar graph showing that the House Republican plan would take food assistance from people to pay to tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
List of data rescue efforts docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Data Rescue Efforts
Data Rescue 2025 Efforts and More Updated 2025-02-06 These suggestions come from various sources, including IASSIST, RDAP, Data Curation Network, BlueSky, LinkedIn, and others. A librarian at a unive...
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Data heros. Harvard law just released an archive of data.gov! lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The path forward requires vigilance, solidarity, and proactive defense of democratic institutions. As history shows, silence in the face of incremental authoritarianism only enables its growth.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Stay in the know. He’s going after Lutheran services now.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
For researchers/anyone needing data that’s getting wiped from gov websites, check out archive.org. For example here’s public health data recently deleted from the CDC archive.org/details/2025... I also anticipate census disruptions eventually. Check out nhgis.org for that. Keep up the work!
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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
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Landscapes of Population Health @landscapeslab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So the hiring freeze rescinded my upcoming grant with the VA. Also impacted several other things. So I might be out of a job after my current grant runs out. I wouldn’t be surprised if this raises unemployment by several points soon. Both thru direct and indirect effects of the freeze.
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump is directing ICE agents to enter schools and snatch kids at bus stops
A notice from Worcester Public Schools Transportation Department. It reads: A recent notification has gone out regarding ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents potentially being at bus stops. If you are aware of any agents being at a stop, DO NOT let any student off the bus and contact the transportation office immediately.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
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Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I pray this helps some of you today. We have a duty to Dr. King whose life was taken because he dared demand that this country face itself, to demonstrate that his work & sacrifice was not in vain. Let’s do it together. Please share. And subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.
With delicious anticipation, we imagined it.
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
2024 saw an 18% increase in homelessness, largest increase in recorded history. Read the 2024 HUD Congressional Report on Homelessness here: www.hud.gov/press/press_... apnews.com/article/home...
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US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people
Federal officials say the United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of mig...
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Kathryn Sabbeth @ksabbeth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Really glad to know about this piece! We must continue to question the "efficiency" of eviction courts. lpeproject.org/blog/who-say...
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Who Says Evictions Should Be Efficient?
Eviction courts are ruthlessly efficient, with the average trial lasting less than two minutes. Yet this speed comes at the expense of tenants' due process and other rights…
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
3. That this has downstream consequences. Replicating recent published work with OpenAI LMs, we show that we would reach very different conclusions if relied on different LMs by the same company...
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Love hearing about my old stomping grounds bringing some truth.
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CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Why does flouride in water matter? CSDE affiliate Dr. Chi weighs in www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org/public-healt...
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Trump’s health pick wants to remove fluoride from our water. Does science back this effort?
What would happen if fluoride were removed from drinking water? Scientists weigh in
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
While in the middle of a housing crisis, software co's are pushing rents higher. Recent analysis by the White House is showing how price gouging software has increased the cost of rent. For example, 68% of landlords in Atalanta were charging $181 more a month. www.axios.com/2024/12/17/r...
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Landlords use pricing software that adds billions to rental costs, White House says
The report puts hard numbers to accusations that have piled up against RealPage, which makes the software that landlords use.
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Testimony on the state of #eviction in #Washington State (40 mins in) tvw.org/video/senate...
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Senate Housing - TVW
Work Session: Housing cost and impact on supply and stability. Right to counsel.
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Evictions around Washington soar to record high levels • Washington State Standard
Washington is on track to have more eviction filings this year than any other. Nine counties hit new high marks, and seven others are close.
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Video of testimony is 40 mins in tvw.org/video/senate...
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Senate Housing - TVW
Work Session: Housing cost and impact on supply and stability. Right to counsel.
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#RightToCounsel has had amazing success with 81% of tenants represented secured permanent housing, 56% remaining in the same home! These programs work! civilrighttocounsel.org/wp-content/u...
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@timthomas.bsky.social will be testifying at the #WA State Senate Committee on Housing Tomorrow to discuss disturbing #eviction trends in the state. 2024 will see the highest filing counts in the state's recorded history. However... datawrapper.dwcdn.net/RfnOz/3/ evictionresearch.net/washington/
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Washington State 20 Year Eviction Filing Trends
2004 to 2024
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
60 new CA housing bills were signed into law and will start Jan 1, 2025. Read Berkeley's Terner Center post about these new laws. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/califor...
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California Housing Laws That Go into Effect in 2025 - Terner Center
Earlier this fall, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed over 60 housing-related bills into law, most of which will become effective January 1, 2025. These new laws will shape housing outcomes in ma...
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
#Evictions are far above historical average in #WashingtonState. New data shows King, Spokane, and Clark Counties saw the highest 12-month count in recorded history. This increase follows gradual lifting of pandemic protections in July 2023 (e.g., #EPRAP & the Eviction Resolution Pilot Program.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Terner Center at Berkeley is looking for 3 postdocs. Great place to work on housing, climate, policy, and homelessness. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04357
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Postdoctoral Employee - Affordable Housing, Land Use & Climate Policy - Terner Center for Housing Innovation
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Cabin writing retreat in the middle of nowhere. Who’s in?
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Please tell me I'm not the only one who misinterpreted the ambiguous federal "Award Information" only to find out you're working with 80% less than you first thought.
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
#ASA2024 - I am organizing the General Session on Mathematical Sociology. If your work is in the area of Math Soc, Data Science, etc you should consider sending your ASA paper here! www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Harvey IL city police just boarded evictees inside their home. This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in a while. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcxmrfj/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
It's probably been done, but...
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The Eviction Research Network @evictionresearch.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
#California #evictions are much higher in larger counties than they were before the pandemic. We'll have a state profile using these data up soon. calmatters.org/housing/home...
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Our Eviction Research Network team has a new Oregon state profile up.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
I wanna make one of these for rent.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Using #datascience for #socialgood! Here's a story about a displacement study we did in #SLC, now informing laws. www.sltrib.com/news/2023/10...
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Where has all the housing gone? SLC leaders are rolling out a plan to help curb gentrification.
Salt Lake City to hold its first major hearing on its sweeping anti-gentrification plan, Thriving in Place.
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Dr. Tim Thomas @timthomas.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
40% of renters felt pressured to leave while 1 in 10 were forced out www.huduser.gov/portal/pdred...
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Pressure to Move and Forced Moves Among U.S. Renter Households: Findings From New Questions in the H...
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