Ann Owens
@annowens.bsky.social
Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy. See the Segregation Explorer for data and visualization: http://edopportunity.org/segregation
And new findings on declines in LA's homeownership rate, especially among middle-income folks.
August 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And new findings on declines in LA's homeownership rate, especially among middle-income folks.
They are providing some of the most comprehensive data on how LA is... behind on its housing production goals
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
They are providing some of the most comprehensive data on how LA is... behind on its housing production goals
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!
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).
I got food poisoning the day before my diss defense. As I set up, he asked me a classic Sandy question: deceptively simple but threatening to undermine the whole study. I looked at him queasily and he said, "Let's talk about it next week." 😂 Here's us celebrating (and we did talk about it) 3/
February 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I got food poisoning the day before my diss defense. As I set up, he asked me a classic Sandy question: deceptively simple but threatening to undermine the whole study. I looked at him queasily and he said, "Let's talk about it next week." 😂 Here's us celebrating (and we did talk about it) 3/
I was lucky enough to have Sandy as my PhD advisor. Here is what I wrote about him in my dissertation acknowledgments. 2/
February 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I was lucky enough to have Sandy as my PhD advisor. Here is what I wrote about him in my dissertation acknowledgments. 2/
Scenes from today's croissant crawl. I love LA
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January 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Scenes from today's croissant crawl. I love LA
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States are incentivizing #LIHTC in high opportunity areas. These incentives work, as we show in recent work, but what is high opportunity? Here's the distribution of state opportunity areas by state poverty quintile. Lots of variation
doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Just some of the things I'm pondering!
doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Just some of the things I'm pondering!
December 16, 2024 at 4:19 PM
States are incentivizing #LIHTC in high opportunity areas. These incentives work, as we show in recent work, but what is high opportunity? Here's the distribution of state opportunity areas by state poverty quintile. Lots of variation
doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Just some of the things I'm pondering!
doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Just some of the things I'm pondering!
Meanwhile, most CA #LIHTC households are ELI while only about 20% of units produced in the last ~15 years are targeted to ELI households
#housing #socsky #sociology
#housing #socsky #sociology
December 16, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Meanwhile, most CA #LIHTC households are ELI while only about 20% of units produced in the last ~15 years are targeted to ELI households
#housing #socsky #sociology
#housing #socsky #sociology
Largest share of #LIHTC units produced in CA is for households earning 50-80% Area Median Income (though share for extremely low-income (<30% AMI) has grown)
#housing #socsky #sociology
#housing #socsky #sociology
December 16, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Largest share of #LIHTC units produced in CA is for households earning 50-80% Area Median Income (though share for extremely low-income (<30% AMI) has grown)
#housing #socsky #sociology
#housing #socsky #sociology
Looking forward to reading this (rather than the 2,050 page proposal!) to understand how 56% of growth will occur in "high opportunity" areas (blue, right) while single-family zoned areas (pink, left) are largely untouched
November 16, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Looking forward to reading this (rather than the 2,050 page proposal!) to understand how 56% of growth will occur in "high opportunity" areas (blue, right) while single-family zoned areas (pink, left) are largely untouched