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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

We're hiring! Join the Eviction Lab as a Data Engineer and help build powerful, scalable data tools that inform housing research and policy nationwide. Apply now: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2025

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Apr 22

One of these research specialist positions is a little different than our typical RS posting: We're hiring specifically for a project on homelessness, and we're hoping to find someone familiar with the world of CoCs and HMIS

Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Eviction Lab is hiring!

Find more information about our latest job openings here: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2...
#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

Come work with us. We are looking for research specialists and an administrative assistant. More information at tinyurl.com/evictionlab2025

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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Eviction Lab is hiring!

Find more information about our latest job openings here: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2...
#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Apr 1

When home heating is less affordable, more people die each winter. That's what our analysis found for a period when LIHEAP was in place. Without LIHEAP, the effect would presumably much larger.

Ungated copy of the study here: bit.ly/2JrJfxR

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Feb 18

Totally unusable. I also get fake right coded movie news ("Kathleen Kennedy resigns from LucasFilm!") and whatever the hell crap this is

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Feb 18

After engaging with a lot of NFL content over the last month (Go Birds!), my FB feed has become infested with Fake NFL News. Obviously no agenda here other than to farm clicks, but what a terrible sign for our information environment.

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Feb 14

On Broad St right now

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Feb 3

What should I read on homelessness in the UK?

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 24

I'm watching an elementary school spelling bee. A kindergartner asked to spell "eagle" launched straight into the Eagles chant and almost lost it by saying the "s"

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 22

"The order, issued on Friday, would stop landlords from evicting a tenant for violating a term of their lease that would otherwise prohibit them from sheltering others."

www.kcra.com/article/news...

Gov. Newsom order protects tenants housing Los Angeles fire survivors from eviction

The order, issued on Friday, would stop landlords from evicting a tenant for violating a term of their lease that would otherwise prohibit them from sheltering others.

www.kcra.com

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 20

I wasn't complaining! I was happy to see so many people using Septa!

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 20

I tried! Every entrance swamped

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 20

"line"

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 20

Line for Septa after the game

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · Jan 14

This looks interesting. NJ Governor Phil Murphy is reportedly going to turn his cannon on exclusionary local zoning laws in his last year in office. A statement is expected as part of his "State of the State" speech this afternoon... www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/01/nj-g...

To boost affordable housing, Murphy says reform NJ zoning | NJ Spotlight News

NJ governor wants to allow small homes on single-, two-family lots, more housing on vacant land and reduced parking rules for housing near mass transit.

www.njspotlightnews.org

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Jan 14

Interactive piece on proportional representation in the NYT today 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem

Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 13

But also thinking about negative effect of rushed moves on a family, there's a world of difference between having one month's notice you need to find a new place (50% YoY hike) and several years notice you need to find a new place (with an anti-gouging law in effect)

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 13

I wish we had better data on this (rent ledgers are very hard to come by). But:

1) anti-gouging laws wouldn't stop the majority of evictions. Just look at the high rate in public housing

2) enough evictions follow an egregious rent hike that anti-gouging laws would help a meaningful number of HHs

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 13

Rooting against Dak Prescott -- feels great. Meanwhile Daniel Jones failed to evoke any emotion me, positive or negative

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 13

Jayden Daniels is so likeable, I hate that I have to root against him for the next 10+ years

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 6

Yeah, it's my favorite along with BotNS. I don't want to spoil anything obviously, but Peace is the work I recommend for friends who are less into genre fiction.

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 6

Interesting, I find Peace to be his most accessible (and contender for most beautifully written) novel. Book 1 of Fifth Head is accessible and wonderful as a stand-alone story, but Book 2 really threw me.

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Jan 5

I reviewed Brian McCabe and @evarosen.bsky.social 's Sociology of Housing! It "demonstrates how racism and entrenched power have brought us to where we are today: A housing market defined by immense wealth, deep poverty, and persistent inequalities."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives - Carl Gershenson, 2025

journals.sagepub.com

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Dec 27

"Nearly 150,000 children experienced homelessness on a single night in 2024, reflecting a 33 percent increase. Children were the age group that experienced the largest increase in homelessness."

www.huduser.gov/portal/sites...

www.huduser.gov

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Carl Gershenson @cgershenson.bsky.social · Dec 23