Prentiss Dantzler
@docdantzler.bsky.social
Housing Policy | Race Relations | Community Development | Reparative Justice
Associate Professor - Sociology
University of Toronto
www.drdantzler.com
Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab
School of Cities
www.housingjusticelab.org
Associate Professor - Sociology
University of Toronto
www.drdantzler.com
Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab
School of Cities
www.housingjusticelab.org
Methods without theory is madness…
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Methods without theory is madness…
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This is the least dismal my Bluesky timeline has been in 10 months so thank you baseball!
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is the least dismal my Bluesky timeline has been in 10 months so thank you baseball!
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September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...
September 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...
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Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk."
@docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data
@docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data
![Screenshot of the article entitled "Visibile Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto's Unequal Eviction Burden." The authors names are listed and an intro paragraph is below saying, "In Toronto who gets evicted isn't random - it follows the city's racial and economic divides. Canada's data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk." A photo is featured of a City of Toronto notice of development sign that has been written upon by community members with statements including "Capitalism is a death cult" and "Free TCH [Toronto Community Housing] for All."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyz7vmpaazxqgsz2gduhn3n6/bafkreicrbw3x24pfdyssyhenkbrautfeftsze72xvxztjun2ozwc55yy5q@jpeg)
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk."
@docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data
@docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data
Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social…
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Great new piece by my @metropolitiques.bsky.social colleague @docdantzler.bsky.social Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction (...) - Metropolitics url:https://metropolitics.org/Visible-Minorities-Visible-Risk-Toronto-s-Unequal-Eviction-Burden.html
September 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social…
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I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.
In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed
'Just Kill 'Em': Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People
"Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade made a jaw-dropping remark while discussing homelessness and mental health.
www.huffpost.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.
“Reframing the story expands the possibilities of collective action.”
- Willow S. Lung-Aman
(The Right to Suburbia, 2024)
- Willow S. Lung-Aman
(The Right to Suburbia, 2024)
September 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“Reframing the story expands the possibilities of collective action.”
- Willow S. Lung-Aman
(The Right to Suburbia, 2024)
- Willow S. Lung-Aman
(The Right to Suburbia, 2024)
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🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda"
✍️ Özatağan et al.
🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.
📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep
✍️ Özatağan et al.
🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.
📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep
September 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda"
✍️ Özatağan et al.
🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.
📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep
✍️ Özatağan et al.
🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions.
📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep
Let this year be a year of dreaming…dreaming of what’s next and what could be…
Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…
Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…
September 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Let this year be a year of dreaming…dreaming of what’s next and what could be…
Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…
Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…
The U.S. is a young empire but arrogant. It basks in its riches while barely acknowledging people starving, living on the street, literally freezing today…
We don’t have to live this way…
We don’t have to live this way…
September 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The U.S. is a young empire but arrogant. It basks in its riches while barely acknowledging people starving, living on the street, literally freezing today…
We don’t have to live this way…
We don’t have to live this way…
Many scholars often invoke the concept of a “slow death” to denote the many ways of everyday death dealing throws our way. But what would a “virtuous death” be? What would it mean to die admirably?
I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…
I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Many scholars often invoke the concept of a “slow death” to denote the many ways of everyday death dealing throws our way. But what would a “virtuous death” be? What would it mean to die admirably?
I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…
I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…
I used to have imposter syndrome earlier on in my career but being anxious about time in and of itself - probably from the pandemic and the homegoing of friends and family - makes u question your actions today if tomorrow was never to come…
September 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I used to have imposter syndrome earlier on in my career but being anxious about time in and of itself - probably from the pandemic and the homegoing of friends and family - makes u question your actions today if tomorrow was never to come…
I think I finally have a decent book idea that allows me to do all the things I want to do. It’s an ambitious project but I’ve been fortunate to engage so many inspiring people over the last decade.
Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…
Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…
September 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I think I finally have a decent book idea that allows me to do all the things I want to do. It’s an ambitious project but I’ve been fortunate to engage so many inspiring people over the last decade.
Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…
Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…
I learned how to be productive. I learned how to be an academic. And I tried and continue to try to do this the way I want to.
I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work…
I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.
I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work…
I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I learned how to be productive. I learned how to be an academic. And I tried and continue to try to do this the way I want to.
I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work…
I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.
I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work…
I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.
Flexible from January to April. Open to ideas for relatively inexpensive places to visit.
While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…
While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…
Well, since my landlord is raising the rent again, it looks like I’m about to be a “nomad” for the rest of my sabbatical this year once I finish up these last few projects by the end of November…
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Flexible from January to April. Open to ideas for relatively inexpensive places to visit.
While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…
While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…
Well, since my landlord is raising the rent again, it looks like I’m about to be a “nomad” for the rest of my sabbatical this year once I finish up these last few projects by the end of November…
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
September 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Well, since my landlord is raising the rent again, it looks like I’m about to be a “nomad” for the rest of my sabbatical this year once I finish up these last few projects by the end of November…
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
Planning to just sit and think for a bit…
Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏
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The group of Afrikaners in the US call themselves "Amerikaners."
August 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The group of Afrikaners in the US call themselves "Amerikaners."
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In other, less self-oriented cultures, and in other times, love was seen as something closer to self-abnegation than to self-comfort. It was seen as a force so powerful that it could overcome our natural selfishness,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
“In other, less self-oriented cultures, and in other times, love was seen as something closer to self-abnegation than to self-comfort. It was seen as a force so powerful that it could overcome our natural selfishness,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
Opinion | The Wrong Definition of Love
The goal of love is to enhance the life of another, not feel good about ourselves.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In other, less self-oriented cultures, and in other times, love was seen as something closer to self-abnegation than to self-comfort. It was seen as a force so powerful that it could overcome our natural selfishness,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
“In other, less self-oriented cultures, and in other times, love was seen as something closer to self-abnegation than to self-comfort. It was seen as a force so powerful that it could overcome our natural selfishness,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
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There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?
AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns.
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AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon
The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.
www.aaup.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?
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🏆 Grad Students & Early Career Scholars: apply for the Emerging Scholar Award by 10/17/25 urbanaffairsassociation.org/awards/alma-...
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🏆 Grad Students & Early Career Scholars: apply for the Emerging Scholar Award by 10/17/25 urbanaffairsassociation.org/awards/alma-...
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The Bundling Assets lab, funded by CMHC & co-run w/ SHS Inc, looks at how nonmarket actors can collaborate to loan equity, develop sites & share management while maintaining org. autonomy. Join us for the launch of the 1st report, based on lessons from 3 practices us06web.zoom.us/webi...
August 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Bundling Assets lab, funded by CMHC & co-run w/ SHS Inc, looks at how nonmarket actors can collaborate to loan equity, develop sites & share management while maintaining org. autonomy. Join us for the launch of the 1st report, based on lessons from 3 practices us06web.zoom.us/webi...