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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 Actions You Can Take to Support UC Values:

✍️ Sign: UCLA Faculty Association letter: tinyurl.com/ucstandup

🏳️‍⚧️ Sign: Save Gender-Affirming Care at UCLA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📬 Write: UC President Milliken & the Regents: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...

(h/t @jesscraven101.bsky.social)

UC Stand Up

Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup Click here for news updates

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Aug 18

The NDSC team also put out a dashboard on affordable housing production with data that is hard to get and rarely seen
la.myneighborhooddata.org/measure-a/

Measure A – Neighborhood Data for Social Change

la.myneighborhooddata.org

Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Aug 18

And new findings on declines in LA's homeownership rate, especially among middle-income folks.

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Aug 18

They are providing some of the most comprehensive data on how LA is... behind on its housing production goals

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Aug 18

My friends at USC Lusk Neighborhood Data for Social Change just launched #SOLACHAN, the first (and now annual) comprehensive look at LA's housing and neighborhoods

la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/

SOLACHAN 2025 Home – Neighborhood Data for Social Change

la.myneighborhooddata.org

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jul 30

Submissions due FRIDAY! Send us your work!

Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲

Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box

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Emily Parker @emilyparker.bsky.social · Jul 29

📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.

doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019

Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl

doi.org

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jul 24

📊Anyone have examples or resources for RA training? i.e., teaching students data cleaning, descriptive tables, annotated bibliographies, anything really.📈

I remember seeing some great examples and saving links in a location so secure I cannot find it, so help appreciated!

#socsky #academicsky

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jul 18

Congrats!!! Gorgeous cover!!!

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jul 17

2 weeks left to submit! We welcome abstracts from many disciplines and methodologies!

Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲

Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Jul 16

AERA is sharing this statement issued by former NCES commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr on the “devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.” Read it here: www.aera.net/Portals/38/P...

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jul 1

Reminder that submissions for our LIHTC program special issue are due on August 1st, 31 days from now! We hope to be reading your abstract soon☺️

Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲

Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 11

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines

"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

Hot pink chairs and benches stacked up in a protest with protesters hiding behind them as law enforcement fires upon the barricades with rubber bullets and tear gas

RIOS
rios.imagines
RIOS rios.imagines Images of the bright pink Civic
furniture line that we designed for@grandpark_la "The Park for Everyone," being used by LA
protesters stopped us in our tracks. These pieces were designed to move, adapt,
welcome, connect - and now protect. We stand in solidarity with our city during moments of civic expression in support of unjust treatment, and we are reminded of why we design: for our community, diversity, and a sense
of belonging.
Photo by: David Ryder-AFP/Getty Images

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jun 10

In the past two days I've received professional emails addressed to Mrs Owen's, Dr. Ownes, and Ana. All good alias possibilities.

a woman with red hair is standing in front of a car .

ALT: a woman with red hair is standing in front of a car .

media.tenor.com

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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · Jun 9

An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jun 3

Delighted to be in the company of the lovely Dr. Murphy!!! Congrats, Demetrius @dmmurphy.bsky.social

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉I'm delighted to be joining the @ucla.edu Sociology department on July 1. Very excited to join their brilliant faculty and students in the city I love💙💛

Grateful to my USC Sociology family who raised me from a baby AP. Even more grateful to continue lifelong friendships made there 🙏

#socsky

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jun 3

We'd love your submissions!

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · Jun 3

Exciting things ahead working with my friend Brian McCabe! @ordinarysquares.bsky.social

American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Jun 2

Congratulations to the new editors of the ASA journal City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social: Brian J. McCabe, Georgetown University, and Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social @usc.edu! Their 3-year term begins January 1, 2026.

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲

Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box

upenn.app.box.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 26

"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."

I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?

Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...

buff.ly

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 21

⭐10 days away from No Zoom June!⭐

MY RULES:
1. I will not Zoom
2. I'm still working
3. I'm still on email (slower responses)
4. I'll do up to two phone meetings a week (and I'll walk and talk)
5. I'll meet in person

Join me!

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 16

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Brown v Board decision. Revisit videos and presentations from our conference, "The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70"

edopportunity.org/segregation/...

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70

Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

edopportunity.org

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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · May 16

On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown - Erica Frankenberg, Caprial Farrington, Elizabeth H. DeBray,...

Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of...

journals.sagepub.com

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 16

Currently reading Michelle Adams's fantastic The Containment, and insights from the debates in the 1960s and 1970s are all too prescient for today

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

The Containment

“Splendid . . . Adams’s book explores class as well as race, with a richness and sophistication that recall J. Anthony Lukas’s 1985 masterpiece, Common...

us.macmillan.com

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