Nick Graetz
@ngraetz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Minnesota studying housing, climate, racism, and population health.
Fellow at @cplusc.bsky.social
https://ncgraetz.com/
Fellow at @cplusc.bsky.social
https://ncgraetz.com/
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New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States: Multifamily loan delinquencies are at their highest rate in 10 years, having nearly doubled in the last year alone.
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis.
Check it out!
Check it out!
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🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
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Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality
Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo
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November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute
Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute
climateandcommunity.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
New work with CFA @consumerfed.bsky.social and CCI @cplusc.bsky.social showing insurers charge low credit homeowners twice as much as high credit homeowners for the exact same policy on the exact same house: consumerfed.org/reports/pena...
Penalized · Consumer Federation of America
A typical homeowner with a “low” credit score will pay nearly $2,000 more each year - or almost double the price - for their insurance premiums than their otherwise identical neighbor with a “high” cr...
consumerfed.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New work with CFA @consumerfed.bsky.social and CCI @cplusc.bsky.social showing insurers charge low credit homeowners twice as much as high credit homeowners for the exact same policy on the exact same house: consumerfed.org/reports/pena...
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NEW: Jasmin Belanger believed the deal was simple: pay off what she owed, and her landlord would let her keep her housing.
It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.
With @bangordailynews.bsky.social
It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.
With @bangordailynews.bsky.social
A Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent. Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted.
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never ...
www.propublica.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW: Jasmin Belanger believed the deal was simple: pay off what she owed, and her landlord would let her keep her housing.
It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.
With @bangordailynews.bsky.social
It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.
With @bangordailynews.bsky.social
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Vienna is the global capital of social housing, and is regularly ranked as the world's most livable city.
Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here.
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here.
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
www.npr.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Vienna is the global capital of social housing, and is regularly ranked as the world's most livable city.
Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here.
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here.
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
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Bee's home filled with ash during the wildfires. Holly pays $350/month to heat her studio apt.
Desperate for safety & change, both turned to a trusted source: the tenant union.
The climate crisis hits tenants hardest, but tenants are fighting back. I wrote about it in @shelterforce.bsky.social
Desperate for safety & change, both turned to a trusted source: the tenant union.
The climate crisis hits tenants hardest, but tenants are fighting back. I wrote about it in @shelterforce.bsky.social
The Climate Crisis Hits Tenants Hardest. They're Fighting Back.
From California to North Carolina, tenants are organizing to demand protections from natural disasters.
shelterforce.org
April 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Bee's home filled with ash during the wildfires. Holly pays $350/month to heat her studio apt.
Desperate for safety & change, both turned to a trusted source: the tenant union.
The climate crisis hits tenants hardest, but tenants are fighting back. I wrote about it in @shelterforce.bsky.social
Desperate for safety & change, both turned to a trusted source: the tenant union.
The climate crisis hits tenants hardest, but tenants are fighting back. I wrote about it in @shelterforce.bsky.social
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the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context
March 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context
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We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.
Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute
There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.
climateandcommunity.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.
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This piece by @aldasky.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social is 💯
We need an economy that invests in “affordable green housing, higher wages, cheap clean energy, lower commuting costs and expanded mass transit. States, cities and towns can get the ball rolling.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
We need an economy that invests in “affordable green housing, higher wages, cheap clean energy, lower commuting costs and expanded mass transit. States, cities and towns can get the ball rolling.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
Opinion | Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different. (Gift Article)
Climate issues are fueling the cost-of-living crisis, especially for the poor and working class.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This piece by @aldasky.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social is 💯
We need an economy that invests in “affordable green housing, higher wages, cheap clean energy, lower commuting costs and expanded mass transit. States, cities and towns can get the ball rolling.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
We need an economy that invests in “affordable green housing, higher wages, cheap clean energy, lower commuting costs and expanded mass transit. States, cities and towns can get the ball rolling.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...
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In the next four years, tenant unions will deepen their organizing. They'll win safer homes, fairer leases, and local regulatory policies, all of which can build the blueprint for national change.
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
Look for the Tenant Union
Those caught in the crossfire of corporate landlords and financial engineering need a regulatory agenda to protect them.
prospect.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:27 PM
In the next four years, tenant unions will deepen their organizing. They'll win safer homes, fairer leases, and local regulatory policies, all of which can build the blueprint for national change.
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social
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Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67.
Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career
An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67.
Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In a new JAMA study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we find that mortality rates among renters threatened with eviction more than doubled during the first phase of the pandemic: evictionlab.org/eviction-was...
Eviction was a Deadly Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic
While many groups experienced higher-than-normal rates of death during the pandemic, the excess mortality of renters threatened with eviction was ten times higher than that of the general population.
evictionlab.org
February 20, 2024 at 11:52 PM
In a new JAMA study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we find that mortality rates among renters threatened with eviction more than doubled during the first phase of the pandemic: evictionlab.org/eviction-was...
In a new study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we demonstrate that both rising rents and evictions are associated with increased risk of death: evictionlab.org/rising-rents...
Rising Rents and Evictions Linked to Premature Death
We analyzed millions of records to understand the direct link between rent burden, eviction, and mortality. Our research shows that rising rent costs and evictions have important consequences for the ...
evictionlab.org
December 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM
In a new study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we demonstrate that both rising rents and evictions are associated with increased risk of death: evictionlab.org/rising-rents...
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Eviction cases affect households, but the court cases normally name just one person. Until now, the full impact of these cases remained invisible.
Our latest research shows that 7.6 million people are threatened with eviction every year (a thread following...).
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/u...
Our latest research shows that 7.6 million people are threatened with eviction every year (a thread following...).
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/u...
The Americans Most Threatened by Eviction: Young Children
About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Eviction cases affect households, but the court cases normally name just one person. Until now, the full impact of these cases remained invisible.
Our latest research shows that 7.6 million people are threatened with eviction every year (a thread following...).
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/u...
Our latest research shows that 7.6 million people are threatened with eviction every year (a thread following...).
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/u...