Tony Damiano
@tonydamiano.bsky.social
B+ dad and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Marquette too
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Tony Damiano
@tonydamiano.bsky.social
· Nov 19
New Research Thread🧵:
We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/
We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/
We problematize poor communities of color but not affluent white ones part 1000
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We problematize poor communities of color but not affluent white ones part 1000
Our three year old Maya is very into Christmas so here is a thread of the funny things she has been saying:
(Maya sitting at table with crayons)
Mom: Maya what are you doing?
Maya: Writing a letter to Santa
Mom: 🥹 Awww what are you asknig him for?
Maya: Pee pee and poo poo
Mom: 😑
(Maya sitting at table with crayons)
Mom: Maya what are you doing?
Maya: Writing a letter to Santa
Mom: 🥹 Awww what are you asknig him for?
Maya: Pee pee and poo poo
Mom: 😑
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our three year old Maya is very into Christmas so here is a thread of the funny things she has been saying:
(Maya sitting at table with crayons)
Mom: Maya what are you doing?
Maya: Writing a letter to Santa
Mom: 🥹 Awww what are you asknig him for?
Maya: Pee pee and poo poo
Mom: 😑
(Maya sitting at table with crayons)
Mom: Maya what are you doing?
Maya: Writing a letter to Santa
Mom: 🥹 Awww what are you asknig him for?
Maya: Pee pee and poo poo
Mom: 😑
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Tax base fragmentation matters. Local governance in the US is highly fragmented: property tax revenues are collected—and critical services are provided—by ~90k independent jurisdictions, and centralized (redistributive) fiscal transfers are much lower than in other federal systems. See:
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tax base fragmentation matters. Local governance in the US is highly fragmented: property tax revenues are collected—and critical services are provided—by ~90k independent jurisdictions, and centralized (redistributive) fiscal transfers are much lower than in other federal systems. See:
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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Across race and place, Minnesota manufactured homeowners have worked hard for our homes. Now private equity firms are buying up parks, raising lot rents, and threatening our stability. 📈
📣 Catalina and her Brandondale neighbors have a message for Senator Julia Coleman: “We need your help.”
📣 Catalina and her Brandondale neighbors have a message for Senator Julia Coleman: “We need your help.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Across race and place, Minnesota manufactured homeowners have worked hard for our homes. Now private equity firms are buying up parks, raising lot rents, and threatening our stability. 📈
📣 Catalina and her Brandondale neighbors have a message for Senator Julia Coleman: “We need your help.”
📣 Catalina and her Brandondale neighbors have a message for Senator Julia Coleman: “We need your help.”
Jives with previous research on Minneapolis, but much larger effects www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Jives with previous research on Minneapolis, but much larger effects www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I still run into this in the housing world with my work, a lot more often than you might think!
significant chunks of the profession are still visible in their disdain and displeasure in that he made (re)distributive effects a major component in a lot of contemporary policy analysis lol. the years of outright denialism and attempts to slander him was pretty surreal.
You can think whatever you want of Thomas Piketty but it is objectively very funny how before he came along inequality was a subject of debate only for tweedy old economists wearing bowties
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I still run into this in the housing world with my work, a lot more often than you might think!
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significant chunks of the profession are still visible in their disdain and displeasure in that he made (re)distributive effects a major component in a lot of contemporary policy analysis lol. the years of outright denialism and attempts to slander him was pretty surreal.
You can think whatever you want of Thomas Piketty but it is objectively very funny how before he came along inequality was a subject of debate only for tweedy old economists wearing bowties
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
significant chunks of the profession are still visible in their disdain and displeasure in that he made (re)distributive effects a major component in a lot of contemporary policy analysis lol. the years of outright denialism and attempts to slander him was pretty surreal.
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Our run D is just bad
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Our run D is just bad
Informal Audubon Park pre-game survey:
5 parents wearing Packers gear
0 parents wearing Vikings gear
1 elected official wearing Twins gear
5 parents wearing Packers gear
0 parents wearing Vikings gear
1 elected official wearing Twins gear
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Informal Audubon Park pre-game survey:
5 parents wearing Packers gear
0 parents wearing Vikings gear
1 elected official wearing Twins gear
5 parents wearing Packers gear
0 parents wearing Vikings gear
1 elected official wearing Twins gear
A+ baby wearing weather
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A+ baby wearing weather
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killing half a million people and counting through the abrupt dismantling of USAID will do that, yeah
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
killing half a million people and counting through the abrupt dismantling of USAID will do that, yeah
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ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.
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Workin on my Spanish this fine morning in Lima.
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Workin on my Spanish this fine morning in Lima.
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
Are there any local fresh hop beers out yet? Just got some Celebration
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Are there any local fresh hop beers out yet? Just got some Celebration
Didn't the president threaten execution for his political opponents yesterday and this is what house democrats are voting "yes" on?
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Didn't the president threaten execution for his political opponents yesterday and this is what house democrats are voting "yes" on?
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This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.
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Federal officials on Thursday disclosed that a raid earlier in the week on a paper distribution company in St. Paul was an immigration operation that resulted in 14 arrests.
ICE says raid at St. Paul company was immigration operation that netted numerous arrests
Protesters converged and clashed with federal agents while a search warrant was being executed.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Low and behold my map didn't draw properly! Here is the correct version. My appologies the post has been updated as well.
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Low and behold my map didn't draw properly! Here is the correct version. My appologies the post has been updated as well.
Finally finished my blog post on the Minneapolis Mayoral Election and demographics. I posted it to an old medium account that I forgot I had. Let me know what you think. Here's what I found 🧵 medium.com/@damia025/pr...
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Finally finished my blog post on the Minneapolis Mayoral Election and demographics. I posted it to an old medium account that I forgot I had. Let me know what you think. Here's what I found 🧵 medium.com/@damia025/pr...