Ann Owens

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | Home Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

Stay for new test score data from our sister project, the Educational Opportunity Project and Stanford Education Data Archive!

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The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | Get the Data Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

Researchers: Download data not featured in the map, including an updated version of our longitudinal school-level database with imputed free-lunch values!

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The Segregation Explorer Use our interactive map to explore dimensions of segregation in America

Explore our interactive map, with new download features!
edopportunity.org/segregation/...

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

Give @cicojournal.bsky.social a follow! Check out the fresh look and keep informed about all the exciting urban sociology scholarship we've got coming soon!

"Criminalizing Homelessness..." by Chien, Henwood, and Kuhn leverages impressive data to show that police encounters and homeless sweeps harm unhoused people's physical and mental health

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assisted Housing and Changes in Household Composition - Kristin L. Perkins, 2026 Changes in household composition are detrimental to children’s well-being and outcomes. Unaffordable or unstable housing may lead to changes in household compos...

Great new housing papers:

"Assisted Housing and Changes in Household Composition" by Kristin Perkins shows that receiving federal or state housing assistance stabilizes families

doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Yesterday I told Gemini that it was wrong and I could never trust it again. It agreed.

Housing folks! Submit to APPAM! I am co-chairing the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area (obv the best one). Submit by 4/22!

#housingsky #econsky #socsky #policysky

Can’t protest? Here are other ways to get involved in LA There are lots of other ways to make a difference during Los Angeles ICE raids. “We need you, the people, to stand with immigrants.”

Can’t protest? Here are other ways to get involved in LA

There are lots of other ways to make a difference during Los Angeles ICE raids. “We need you, the people, to stand with immigrants.”

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I had to remind myself to shake off my feelings of futility and helplessness. If you need that reminder:

Call 5calls.org

Donate www.standwithminnesota.com

Find your local mutual aid and immigration defense networks. I support @chirla-org.bsky.social and mutualaidla.org

Naomi Osaka in white hat and umbrella and turquoise jellyfish outfit

Man in downtown LA with white umbrella and turquoise outfit

Who wore it best?

(L): Naomi Osaka, 2026 Australian Open
(R): Man on the street, 2026 Downtown LA

I participated in a couple calls about actually adding this....

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program relies onhousing developers to build affordable housing units. Developersconsider financial feasibility and programmatic regulations whenplanning projects, and one central project feature is the affordabil-ity of units. Decisions around unit affordability directly shape hous-ing supply and, in turn, affect where low-income tenants live. Inthis article, I analyze LIHTC projects in California and show that,among projects funded from 2011 to 2023, only a small share(15%) of units was affordable to extremely low-income (ELI) house-holds. In contrast, ELI households comprised the majority of LIHTCtenants. The share of units affordable to ELI households increasedover time due in part to program regulations, financial feasibility,and state priorities around housing formerly homeless individuals,though there was still a substantial mismatch between units’affordability and tenants’ incomes during this period. Units afford-able to ELI households are slightly less likely to be in the highestsocioeconomic status (SES) communities, though mismatchbetween affordability and tenant income is similar across neigh-borhood types. Developer decision-making around income target-ing, tenant type, and project location shapes affordable housingsupply, and I conclude by noting the importance of assessing theintersections of these factors for future policymaking

New in @houspoldebate.bsky.social
- CA's affordable housing is not affordable to lowest-income tenants, who comprise most tenants
- Units built in higher SES areas have a range of affordability levels, promising for integration goals

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#housingsky #socsky

The Impact of Residential Mobility on Segregation in California This report analyzes how residential mobility contributes to enduring patterns of residential segregation and unequal access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods.

People move often, and in theory, freely. But segregation persists. New research finds that residential mobility in CA largely maintains unequal access to high-opportunity neighborhoods, even though individual movers may buck the trends.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/the...

📢 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)

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/

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

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

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/

Submissions due FRIDAY! Send us your work!

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

📣 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...

📊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

Congrats!!! Gorgeous cover!!!

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

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...

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☺️

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

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"

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 .

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

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.