Ann Owens
@annowens.bsky.social
Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy. See the Segregation Explorer for data and visualization: http://edopportunity.org/segregation
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Ann Owens
@annowens.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Segregation Explorer
Use our interactive map to explore dimensions of segregation in America
edopportunity.org
Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991.
edopportunity.org/segregation
edopportunity.org/segregation
📢 Actions You Can Take to Support UC Values:
✍️ Sign: UCLA Faculty Association letter: tinyurl.com/ucstandup
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(h/t @jesscraven101.bsky.social)
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📬 Write: UC President Milliken & the Regents: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
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UC Stand Up
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Click here for news updates
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September 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📢 Actions You Can Take to Support UC Values:
✍️ Sign: UCLA Faculty Association letter: tinyurl.com/ucstandup
🏳️⚧️ Sign: Save Gender-Affirming Care at UCLA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📬 Write: UC President Milliken & the Regents: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
(h/t @jesscraven101.bsky.social)
✍️ Sign: UCLA Faculty Association letter: tinyurl.com/ucstandup
🏳️⚧️ Sign: Save Gender-Affirming Care at UCLA: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📬 Write: UC President Milliken & the Regents: actionnetwork.org/letters/hold...
(h/t @jesscraven101.bsky.social)
My friends at USC Lusk Neighborhood Data for Social Change just launched #SOLACHAN, the first (and now annual) comprehensive look at LA's housing and neighborhoods
la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/
la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/
SOLACHAN 2025 Home – Neighborhood Data for Social Change
la.myneighborhooddata.org
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My friends at USC Lusk Neighborhood Data for Social Change just launched #SOLACHAN, the first (and now annual) comprehensive look at LA's housing and neighborhoods
la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/
la.myneighborhooddata.org/solachan-home/
Submissions due FRIDAY! Send us your work!
The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box
upenn.app.box.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Submissions due FRIDAY! Send us your work!
Reposted by Ann Owens
📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019
Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
📊Anyone have examples or resources for RA training? i.e., teaching students data cleaning, descriptive tables, annotated bibliographies, anything really.📈
I remember seeing some great examples and saving links in a location so secure I cannot find it, so help appreciated!
#socsky #academicsky
I remember seeing some great examples and saving links in a location so secure I cannot find it, so help appreciated!
#socsky #academicsky
July 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📊Anyone have examples or resources for RA training? i.e., teaching students data cleaning, descriptive tables, annotated bibliographies, anything really.📈
I remember seeing some great examples and saving links in a location so secure I cannot find it, so help appreciated!
#socsky #academicsky
I remember seeing some great examples and saving links in a location so secure I cannot find it, so help appreciated!
#socsky #academicsky
2 weeks left to submit! We welcome abstracts from many disciplines and methodologies!
The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box
upenn.app.box.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
2 weeks left to submit! We welcome abstracts from many disciplines and methodologies!
Reposted by Ann Owens
AERA is sharing this statement issued by former NCES commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr on the “devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.” Read it here: www.aera.net/Portals/38/P...
July 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
AERA is sharing this statement issued by former NCES commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr on the “devastating shutdown and decimation of a critical national institution.” Read it here: www.aera.net/Portals/38/P...
Reposted by Ann Owens
Reminder that submissions for our LIHTC program special issue are due on August 1st, 31 days from now! We hope to be reading your abstract soon☺️
The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box
upenn.app.box.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reminder that submissions for our LIHTC program special issue are due on August 1st, 31 days from now! We hope to be reading your abstract soon☺️
Reposted by Ann Owens
Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines
"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines
"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
In the past two days I've received professional emails addressed to Mrs Owen's, Dr. Ownes, and Ana. All good alias possibilities.
a woman with red hair is standing in front of a car .
ALT: a woman with red hair is standing in front of a car .
media.tenor.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In the past two days I've received professional emails addressed to Mrs Owen's, Dr. Ownes, and Ana. All good alias possibilities.
Reposted by Ann Owens
An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
🎉I'm delighted to be joining the @ucla.edu Sociology department on July 1. Very excited to join their brilliant faculty and students in the city I love💙💛
Grateful to my USC Sociology family who raised me from a baby AP. Even more grateful to continue lifelong friendships made there 🙏
#socsky
Grateful to my USC Sociology family who raised me from a baby AP. Even more grateful to continue lifelong friendships made there 🙏
#socsky
June 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Exciting things ahead working with my friend Brian McCabe! @ordinarysquares.bsky.social
Congratulations to the new editors of the ASA journal City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social: Brian J. McCabe, Georgetown University, and Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social @usc.edu! Their 3-year term begins January 1, 2026.
June 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Exciting things ahead working with my friend Brian McCabe! @ordinarysquares.bsky.social
The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
HPD_LIHTC40_Call.pdf | Powered by Box
upenn.app.box.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲
Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...
#housing #data #research #HPD
Reposted by Ann Owens
"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."
I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"Should we do something? It feels like we should do something. Hopefully, I’ll feel more like I can dedicate the brain space to that just as soon as I finish my work, which is tuning this glockenspiel."
⭐10 days away from No Zoom June!⭐
MY RULES:
1. I will not Zoom
2. I'm still working
3. I'm still on email (slower responses)
4. I'll do up to two phone meetings a week (and I'll walk and talk)
5. I'll meet in person
Join me!
MY RULES:
1. I will not Zoom
2. I'm still working
3. I'm still on email (slower responses)
4. I'll do up to two phone meetings a week (and I'll walk and talk)
5. I'll meet in person
Join me!
May 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
⭐10 days away from No Zoom June!⭐
MY RULES:
1. I will not Zoom
2. I'm still working
3. I'm still on email (slower responses)
4. I'll do up to two phone meetings a week (and I'll walk and talk)
5. I'll meet in person
Join me!
MY RULES:
1. I will not Zoom
2. I'm still working
3. I'm still on email (slower responses)
4. I'll do up to two phone meetings a week (and I'll walk and talk)
5. I'll meet in person
Join me!
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Brown v Board decision. Revisit videos and presentations from our conference, "The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70"
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70
Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.
edopportunity.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Brown v Board decision. Revisit videos and presentations from our conference, "The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v Board of Education at 70"
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
Reposted by Ann Owens
On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown - Erica Frankenberg, Caprial Farrington, Elizabeth H. DeBray,...
Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of...
journals.sagepub.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
On this day before the 71st anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education decision that declared school segregation inherently unequal, sharing a new publication written for the 70th anniversary examining why integration is eroding (open access): 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In 2022, Louisiana ranked 20th on White-Black school seg among states. Seg today is absolutely due in part to gov action: how school district and catchment lines are drawn, how housing is subsidized, zoned, and sited.
See the data: edopportunity.org/segregation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
See the data: edopportunity.org/segregation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In 2022, Louisiana ranked 20th on White-Black school seg among states. Seg today is absolutely due in part to gov action: how school district and catchment lines are drawn, how housing is subsidized, zoned, and sited.
See the data: edopportunity.org/segregation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
See the data: edopportunity.org/segregation
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
"Louisiana 'got its act together decades ago'”
🤔
Per the Segregation Explorer: in 2022, White-Black school seg was .43 - White student share in a White kid's school was .43 higher than in a Black kid's school.
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
apnews.com/article/scho...
🤔
Per the Segregation Explorer: in 2022, White-Black school seg was .43 - White student share in a White kid's school was .43 higher than in a Black kid's school.
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
apnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Louisiana 'got its act together decades ago'”
🤔
Per the Segregation Explorer: in 2022, White-Black school seg was .43 - White student share in a White kid's school was .43 higher than in a Black kid's school.
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
apnews.com/article/scho...
🤔
Per the Segregation Explorer: in 2022, White-Black school seg was .43 - White student share in a White kid's school was .43 higher than in a Black kid's school.
edopportunity.org/segregation/...
apnews.com/article/scho...
I'll be presenting work-very-much-in-progress on trends in residential and school segregation at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social #SCANCOR on Monday morning at 10 AM. I hear there are pastries!
April 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'll be presenting work-very-much-in-progress on trends in residential and school segregation at @stanfordeducation.bsky.social #SCANCOR on Monday morning at 10 AM. I hear there are pastries!
Reposted by Ann Owens
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
J/K, everything's fine!
(Can I send my therapy bill to the federal government?)
(Can I send my therapy bill to the federal government?)
March 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
J/K, everything's fine!
(Can I send my therapy bill to the federal government?)
(Can I send my therapy bill to the federal government?)
Welp.
(Curious that this came from an nsf.gov email address referencing the Standard Application Process at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, which we've never gone through for our data. There is apparently no NCES staff to send the bad news email).
(Curious that this came from an nsf.gov email address referencing the Standard Application Process at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, which we've never gone through for our data. There is apparently no NCES staff to send the bad news email).
March 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Welp.
(Curious that this came from an nsf.gov email address referencing the Standard Application Process at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, which we've never gone through for our data. There is apparently no NCES staff to send the bad news email).
(Curious that this came from an nsf.gov email address referencing the Standard Application Process at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, which we've never gone through for our data. There is apparently no NCES staff to send the bad news email).
In these dark times, it's comforting to know that reviewer 2 can still be a complete menace: "So the findings are weak and depend on the specification, but papers have been published with less."
a man wearing a watch is covering his mouth with his hand
Alt: Miss Jay wearing a watch is covering his mouth with his hand
media.tenor.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In these dark times, it's comforting to know that reviewer 2 can still be a complete menace: "So the findings are weak and depend on the specification, but papers have been published with less."