Carl Gershenson

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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

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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

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

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.

On Broad St right now

What should I read on homelessness in the UK?

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"

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.

"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...

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

I tried! Every entrance swamped

"line"

Line for Septa after the game

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.

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...

Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

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

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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/...

"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...

The 30-Year Mortgage Wasn’t Designed for Climate Chaos As house-demolishing weather becomes increasingly common, more Americans will find themselves without a safety net.

If the Trump admin privatizes the GSEs, that will cause mortgage rates and/or insurance costs in high climate risk areas to increase, right?

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

We've seen this year how SEPTA's fate hinges on a few votes in the PA assembly. Rapid growth in SEPA before the next redistricting could be the difference between a subway expansion and a death spiral!

Compare NJ and DE to PA. We need to wait until county level estimates are released to find out if SEPA is keeping up with its neighbors.

Thank you! We couldn't do it without our design partners @jamesminton.bsky.social and team at @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social

Especially given the quality difference in municipal services