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@sprzybylinski.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Urban-political geographer working on homelessness, property, citizenship and justice. Author of The Injustice of Property on UGA Press: https://tinyurl.com/mtx8reap

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โ€œRight to the Disciplineโ€ grants - Antipode Online Call for Proposals, November 2025 Last year we received 169 strong applications with a success rate of 5.9%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipo...

Call for proposals -- Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants -- submit your application by 10 April 2026 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

12.11.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The pendulum swings: mobilizing policies to develop mass homeless encampments in the โ€œprogressiveโ€ city Portland, Oregon sits at the forefront of experimenting with policies for sheltering unhoused people outside of congregate shelter. In 2021, the City Government legalized sanctioned encampments by ...

similar to situation in Portland: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.11.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Goes w/out saying that criminalizing homelessness will not solve the underlying problem of having nowhere to safely live. But, for the city, enforcing the ban will help justify opening more mass shelters like Clinton Triangle, so that they can then justify extending Urban Alchemy a larger contract.

01.11.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In Utah, Trumpโ€™s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Via "law enforcement 'rescue teams,' unhoused people will be "involuntarily taken" for "treatment" at this isolated facility run by management consultants who are in the business of "lives, of humans, of souls." I am surprised that Urban Alchemy has not bid for this contract. tinyurl.com/ycyzuctf

01.11.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Announcing Antipodeโ€™s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

20.10.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Portland. The kind people at @streetroots.bsky.social are hosting me Oct. 15 to talk about The Injustice of Property, a book about homeless encampments in Portland. This event will talk about the book but also celebrate the community that supported its creation. If you are free, please join us.

07.10.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025 This paper addresses the policy mobilities approachโ€™s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...

New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
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23.09.2025 23:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Call for papers for the 2026 @geographers.bsky.social Annual Mtg in SF. The legal geographies specialty group @legalgeography.bsky.social is organizing "Graduate Voices in the Lawscape" and is looking for papers related to law, society, and space. See link for info docs.google.com/document/d/1...

03.09.2025 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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San Francisco and other cities, following a Supreme Court ruling, are arresting more homeless people for living on the streets More than one year after the Supreme Courtโ€™s Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, a geographer who researches homelessness finds that the ruling is leading to more places criminalizing homelessness.

Arresting homeless people for sleeping in public spaces doesn't reduce homelessness, according to a professor who studies the issue. It often leads to worse health and makes it harder to find stable housing. buff.ly/Wceth5F By @sprzybylinski.bsky.social @michiganstateu.bsky.social

17.08.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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San Francisco and other cities, following a Supreme Court ruling, are arresting more homeless people for living on the streets More than one year after the Supreme Courtโ€™s Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, a geographer who researches homelessness finds that the ruling is leading to more places criminalizing homelessness.

Arresting homeless people for sleeping in public spaces doesn't reduce homelessness, according to a professor who studies the issue. It often leads to worse health and makes it harder to find stable housing. buff.ly/Wceth5F By @sprzybylinski.bsky.social @michiganstateu.bsky.social

13.08.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

For a quick read on the effects of Grants Passโ€ฆ

13.08.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Evaluating Justice: Toward A Methodological Framework for Geographic Research Geographers have long addressed the spatial dynamics of injustice, examining how various processes shape inequitable geographies. Despite extensive research by geographers into the causes of injust...

New OA article w @johlsson.bsky.social (& D Mitchell). We argue the concept of justice is more commonly implied than it is theorized in relation to justice scholarship and offer a qualitative approach to guide scholars through assessing and justifying justice-related research. tinyurl.com/3tvjdnvx

15.07.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Publication day! The Injustice of Property is available from the great @ugapress.bsky.social. The book details how property in liberalism constrains common attempts at ending homelessness, despite land use practices of un/precariously housed people rejecting the proprietarian logic of liberalism.

01.07.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The Injustice of Property With the rise of homelessness in many U.S. cities, municipal governments are sanctioning organized encampments as an official strategy for sheltering unhouse...

You can use the QR code to receive a 30% discount, or use code from flyer at link here: www.ugapress.org/978082037364...

01.07.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Publication day! The Injustice of Property is available from the great @ugapress.bsky.social. The book details how property in liberalism constrains common attempts at ending homelessness, despite land use practices of un/precariously housed people rejecting the proprietarian logic of liberalism.

01.07.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Could not recommend enough! Great place to work.

24.06.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
HOLC Area Description for neighborhood D5 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

HOLC Area Description for neighborhood D5 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

HOLC map for Milwaukee, Wisconsin

HOLC map for Milwaukee, Wisconsin

HOLC map for Atlanta, Georgia

HOLC map for Atlanta, Georgia

๐Ÿ“ฃ The last article from my dissertation is out!

In this piece, coauthor Anne Bonds and I dive deep into the contents of HOLCโ€™s Area Description sheets.

๐Ÿ”— www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.06.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The book is more about the experiences of people living in self-managed encampments in PDX, and how their relationships with property (and its owners) affect their ability to become housing stable. It does not touch on demand for accessible housing:)

18.06.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In Multnomah County, homeless deaths are on the rise In Multnomah County, the number of deaths of homeless residents grew from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023.

Hear Street Roots' editor K. Rambo talk with @opb.org about their recent story on Portland's homeless encampment sweeps, copublished by @streetroots.bsky.social / @propublica.org last week. It's hard to ignore the policy choices that contribute to these outcomes.

www.propublica.org/article/port...

18.06.2025 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Very cool, Michael. Thanks for sharing your work with me!

18.06.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

18.06.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

18.06.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This link should take you to the same place as the QR code, same promo code too: ugapress.org/book/9780820...

18.06.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, I hope it won't be. Please let me know what you think!

17.06.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks!

17.06.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Nicole!

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Nice to come back from fieldwork to see this on my doorstep. While official release date is July 1, books are shipping from warehouse if you are interested. Below in the thread is a 30% discount code.

16.06.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 194    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Wow.

06.06.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Daniel!

06.06.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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