Samara Scheckler

I hope you'll join me online tomorrow to talk about our opportunities to improve equity in late life housing!

Federal rental assistance helps older adults stay in their homes. #housing

Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force and exacerbate the housing shortage nationwide. More than 30% of construction workers were born outside the US in California, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.

New research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that mass deportations would likely worsen the housing shortage by decimating the labor force.

Immigrants make up >23% of the construction workforce & more in FL, TX. About half are estimated to be undocumented immigrants. www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...

You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie.

This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.

The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

Another example of the high costs of crisis care compared to the much more affordable cost to help people remain housed.

Imagine ticketing a person in labor for being unhoused instead of calling for emergency medical care. Where are our helpers?

As people live longer, they are burdened by disease, a new study from the American #Medical Association shows.⁠
⁠Americans live w/ diseases for an avg of 12.4 yrs, an increase from 10.9 in 2000. US Women spent on average 2.6 more yrs sick than men.⁠ #Medsky #DisabilityRights #ACA #ChronicIllness
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Maine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them. For those who are evicted from public housing in Maine, experts say the consequence “is almost certainly homelessness.”

NEW: Maine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them.

For those who are evicted from public housing in Maine, experts say the consequence “is almost certainly homelessness.” w/ @bangordailynews.bsky.social

While household demographics are typically categorized according to the characteristics of the householder, half of the 13.5 million multi-race households in the US are categorized as white using this method.

A Tattoo On My Brain A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease

Daniel Gibbs is a retired neurologist who has #dementia due to #Alzheimer's.

He wrote the book, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease."

I haven't read his book, but his blog has lots of great information, opinions & experiences.

tattooonmybrain.com

Want to hear more from our researchers and staff? Here's a JCHS Starter Pack for you to follow!

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How could anyone who has used health insurance still assume that efficiency and profit taking go hand in hand?

Great example of YIMBY zoning reforms happening in Minneapolis! www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

it is funny how much the politicized version of immigration economics discourse is "Immigrants supply labor but do not demand labor, thus lowering wages for Americans. Except in the housing market, where immigrants demand housing without supplying it, thus driving up prices for Americans"

Affordable is such a relatively term...

NIH funding has an #ROI of over $2 for every one dollar spent. #research has a positive benefit on the #economy!

More reasons to worry about institutional investors.

The #ENABLEAct preserves ABLE to Work, the Savers Credit & 529 rollovers past 2025. Makes it permanent, in fact.

It’s bipartisan. It’s passed the Senate. Learn how to help it pass the House at this link. This is an achievable goal.

#disability #personalfinance

femmefrugality.com/enable-act/

Parking Mandates Are Keeping Kids Out of Daycare - Sightline Institute But cities can ditch these arbitrary rules and help families out of the daycare desert.

Making parking fully flexible for daycares is something any community can do to make families lives easier right now! More daycare openings with no taxpayer money at all. A win-win. 1/

www.sightline.org/2024/11/19/p...

Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Join the UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative for a webinar to explore the implications of the 2024 election for homelessness on the West Coast and beyond. Margot Kushel, MD, will moderate a...

Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? Join us @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social for a webinar on Wednesday Dec 11 at noon PT
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/ele...
With: Marc Dones
@annymoliva.bsky.social
Chione Flegal

Can't wait to get my copy!

Petition to make "Hi, what are you reading?" the conventional greeting.

"How are you doing?" hasn't been appropriate for some time now. Deprecated.

Starting this list … please respond if you work on US national #housing policy issues too and I will add you! 🙏💙 go.bsky.app/5Xzj7gr

I tried to pull together some housing and homelessness folks! I am sure I missed many. Comment to add more!

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Thanks for building this, Sharon!

Excited to talk about aging in community! Spoiler - living with low income makes it harder.