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Will B. Payne

@willbpayne.bsky.social

212 followers 112 following 66 posts

Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, studying spatial data and urban inequality through location-based services.

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wish I could be there! I know exactly what I’d bring:

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Nothing wrong with me that the Monster Energy canal boat can’t fix…

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Finally, this map, showing Small-Area Fair Market Rent implementation progress by HUD, shows that the spatial arbitrage loophole Section 8 investors targeted (rents set by metro area, higher than local asking, see work of @evarosen.bsky.social etc.) has already been closed in these markets

Map of HUD Metro Areas with Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) Status

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This map shows the results of me taking the advice of one of these finfluencers and repeatedly prompting ChatGPT & Gemini to suggest turnkey low-cost housing markets (investment message boards like BiggerPockets likely in training data), with most markets in the Rust Belt & Deep South

Map of the United States showing turnkey rental markets suggested by ChatGPT and Google Gemini sized by total Housing Choice Vouchers

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A few images; first, this page shows the kind of promotional strategy influencers use to sell training courses & coaching. Almost every post mentions that rents are government-guaranteed (true besides the tenant contribution), and encourages inexperienced investors to participate

Image from “Section 8 Training” website home page talking about how this is a method to “build passive income” with “government guaranteed rent”

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

How Dutch are these breeches, btw?

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

@aresluna.org I present to you… a Horton Gorton (spotted in Vancouver, the land of Tim Horton’s, unrelatedly)

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Piscataway, NJ has a message for the current administration on this gloomy spring day ✊

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Welp, another one bites the dust…

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Denali watch starts now I guess. McKinley never set foot in Alaska and both R senators in Alaska don’t want the name switched back, but he liked tariffs so… 🙃

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I suspected something was up when I posted a one-star review of the so-called “Gulf of America” (the Gulf of Mexico) on Google Maps and it wasn’t showing up for anyone else, but G is now confirming that they’re throttling reviews.

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