Valerie Stahl
valstahl.bsky.social
Valerie Stahl
@valstahl.bsky.social
assistant prof of city planning at SDSU- deeply affordable housing, zoning and land use, participation. Also a mom, wife, friend, cancer survivor, franco-américaine, NYC lover, pretty good cook, excellent eater, glasses enthusiast, and linen wearer.
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Proud to share my recent publication that examines disparities in zoning types and breast cancer incidence across CA w/PH friends Humberto Parada and staff @BCPP. As a young BC survivor, this work is deeply meaningful to me, and is just the beginning of a broader project!
Land use, zoning, and breast cancer incidence in California: an ecological study - Cancer Causes & Control
Background The relationship between land use and zoning and breast cancer (BC) incidence is understudied, despite the potential for the built environment to result in exposure to mammary carcinogens. ...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Reposted by Valerie Stahl
By @alejandrabee.bsky.social

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules
The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Valerie Stahl
In 2016 I started this big paper collage (6x6 ft, all torn/cut by hand) that quickly devolved into a chaotic/grotesque portrait of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States

I stopped working on it in 2021, nearly a year after J6

This🧵is about the ideas, sources, & references that inform it
May 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Valerie Stahl
New from me on scholarship by @cbswope.bsky.social et al.

"As the Trump Administration attempts to eviscerate fair housing...regulations...we need to recognize the persistence and resilience of racial-capitalist exploitation and dispossession, and not view it only as some relic of an earlier era."
What if the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) Redlining Maps Were Not Actually the Root Cause of So Much Modern Health (and Other) Inequality?
Seeking more complete—but still highly racialized—explanations of urban spatial inequities.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Lovely editors! Happy to be part of this issue that has officially hit the presses.
New special issue on on Housing Movements & Racial Capitalism w/ @akirarodriguez.bsky.social & Margit Mayer in @politicsandspace.bsky.social

& cute team editor photo in Berlin '22

Check out 5 great contributions!!👇
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March 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For my 1st ever post, excited to share this article! Looking at folks' last n'hood of residence before entering the shelter system in NYC, we treat homelessness as a housing problem and find (unsurprisingly) evictions as the strongest predictor of displacement. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RIGVG...
Displacement Into New York City’s Shelter System: Exploring the Roles of Neighborhood-Level Housing Dynamics
This study examines the associations between neighborhood-level housing dynamics and displacement rates into the homeless shelter system in New York City (NYC). We analyze a novel dataset obtained ...
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December 4, 2024 at 9:29 PM