Erin Gaede
@eringaede.bsky.social
Sociology PhD candidate at UW-Madison researching housing, health, poverty, social movements, and rural communities.
Housing Matters, Santa Cruz County’s largest #homelessness nonprofit, plans to close its day services, including public showers, bathrooms and a mailroom that served more than 1,700 people last year. My latest op-ed warns that this will push the growing working poor even closer to crisis.
OPINION: The planned closure of Housing Matters’ day services – including public showers, bathrooms and mail access — is being framed as affecting only people experiencing homelessness, but it will also hit Santa Cruz’s working poor who rely on these essentials, writes housing scholar Erin Gaede.
Closing Housing Matters’ day services won’t hurt just the unhoused — it will push the working poor closer to crisis
The planned closure of Housing Matters’ day services – including public showers, bathrooms and mail access — is being framed as affecting only people experiencing homelessness, but it will also hit…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Housing Matters, Santa Cruz County’s largest #homelessness nonprofit, plans to close its day services, including public showers, bathrooms and a mailroom that served more than 1,700 people last year. My latest op-ed warns that this will push the growing working poor even closer to crisis.
Homelessness initiatives operate in an ecosystem built to respond more often than to prevent. Any shift in its order can cause a systematic short-circuit, especially in rural areas with already scarce resources.
When DOGE cut $2.3 million from a Kansas state agency, it hit rural communities hard. Housing providers already stretched thin closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts, bracing for what’s next.
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Vulnerable Kansans already struggled to find housing. Federal funding cuts will make it even harder.
When DOGE cut $2.3 million from a Kansas state agency, it hit rural communities hard. Housing providers already stretched thin closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts, bracing for…
www.kmuw.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Homelessness initiatives operate in an ecosystem built to respond more often than to prevent. Any shift in its order can cause a systematic short-circuit, especially in rural areas with already scarce resources.
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Congratulations to Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS)! @socialsciencesinst.bsky.social
Erin Gaede receives Dissertation Grant and Graduate Student Paper Award
Erin Gaede received a 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS). This award recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the social sciences. She also w...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Congratulations to Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS)! @socialsciencesinst.bsky.social
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Research about housing and health by Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social made an appearance in The Badger Herald.
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UW report links housing stress to worsening health in Wisconsin
Housing financial stress has been rising among Wisconsin residents, and it is tied to an increase in negative health outcomes, according to a report from the University of Wisconsin-Extension. The re...
badgerherald.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Research about housing and health by Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social made an appearance in The Badger Herald.
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Our latest in @dailyyonder.bsky.social on the relationship between #housing costs & community well-being.
Research: Rising Housing Costs Hinder Community Well-Being | The Daily Yonder
As housing costs continue to rise nationwide, particularly in the post Covid-19 period, the number of people experiencing housing financial stress,
dailyyonder.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Our latest in @dailyyonder.bsky.social on the relationship between #housing costs & community well-being.
This week’s defunding of #NPR and PBS raises concerns about equity, as #rural areas—already underserved in media access—stand to be disproportionately affected.
Rural PBS stations could bear brunt of public media cuts. Just ask those in Kansas
Congress is weighing legislation that enacts a series of cuts to already approved funding, including $1.1 billion for public media.
www.usatoday.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The Unaffordable Care Act
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
www.npr.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Unaffordable Care Act
Thousands of Wisconsinites already face #housing insecurity.
Now, cuts to Medicaid, housing programs, and food assistance could push them into homelessness @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/07/wisc...
Now, cuts to Medicaid, housing programs, and food assistance could push them into homelessness @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/07/wisc...
‘We can’t do it all by ourselves’: As rural homelessness grows in Wisconsin, Republicans balk at boosting support
Homeless service providers rally together as federal funding cuts loom and the governor’s $24 million proposal gets cut.
wisconsinwatch.org
July 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thousands of Wisconsinites already face #housing insecurity.
Now, cuts to Medicaid, housing programs, and food assistance could push them into homelessness @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/07/wisc...
Now, cuts to Medicaid, housing programs, and food assistance could push them into homelessness @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/07/wisc...
Thanks @urbanmilwaukee.com for highlighting our research on the vital connection between #housing affordability and health outcomes.
Rising Housing Costs Forcing Some to Delay Medical Care
Rising Housing Costs Forcing Some to Delay Medical Care
UW report finds some in Wisconsin can't afford both housing and health care.
urbanmilwaukee.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thanks @urbanmilwaukee.com for highlighting our research on the vital connection between #housing affordability and health outcomes.
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The budget reconciliation bill expands the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) but guts Medicaid and SNAP. Is that really a win for housing, asks @shelterforce.bsky.social.
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Trump's Big Ugly Bill Is a Loss for Housing
The tax bill includes big increases in housing funding. But its other provisions are so harmful that the affordable housing field should not be celebrating.
shelterforce.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The budget reconciliation bill expands the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) but guts Medicaid and SNAP. Is that really a win for housing, asks @shelterforce.bsky.social.
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Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that’s been in your family for generations.
At any moment, another heir could sell their share, triggering a court-ordered sale that could force you off the land. Scholars explain “heirs’ property’” and its challenges:
At any moment, another heir could sell their share, triggering a court-ordered sale that could force you off the land. Scholars explain “heirs’ property’” and its challenges:
Family homesteads with tangled titles are contributing to rural America’s housing crisis
Across the US, heirs’ property laws hamstring families that want to build housing or leverage their land for loans. One Alabama project shows how policy reform and savvy design can build a way…
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June 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that’s been in your family for generations.
At any moment, another heir could sell their share, triggering a court-ordered sale that could force you off the land. Scholars explain “heirs’ property’” and its challenges:
At any moment, another heir could sell their share, triggering a court-ordered sale that could force you off the land. Scholars explain “heirs’ property’” and its challenges:
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Rising housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care, according to a new report from Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social of the Rural Livability Project.
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Rising housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care, new report says
The report examined how rising housing costs intersect with health care. It found older homeowners were more likely than renters to prioritize paying housing expenses over medical care.
www.wpr.org
June 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Rising housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care, according to a new report from Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social of the Rural Livability Project.
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📢 📖 New research report from the Rural Livability Project, covered by Wisconsin Public Radio! In this report, Tessa Conroy, Steven Deller, and I find that rising #housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care.
Read more here 👇
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Read more here 👇
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Rising housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care, new report says
The report examined how rising housing costs intersect with health care. It found older homeowners were more likely than renters to prioritize paying housing expenses over medical care.
www.wpr.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 📖 New research report from the Rural Livability Project, covered by Wisconsin Public Radio! In this report, Tessa Conroy, Steven Deller, and I find that rising #housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care.
Read more here 👇
www.wpr.org/news/rising-...
Read more here 👇
www.wpr.org/news/rising-...
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Medicaid cuts don’t just hurt the low-income. As @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and I write, cutting Medicaid drives up hospitals’ uncompensated care, putting them at risk of closure & increasing by 20-40 mi the distance to rural hospitals. Hurts privately insured too. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most
Trump’s budget will actively harm the health and incomes of rural communities and Republican voters, well beyond those who themselves are enrolled in Medicaid.
thehill.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Medicaid cuts don’t just hurt the low-income. As @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and I write, cutting Medicaid drives up hospitals’ uncompensated care, putting them at risk of closure & increasing by 20-40 mi the distance to rural hospitals. Hurts privately insured too. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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When I was pregnant with my first, I lived in a county that didn't have a hospital with labor & delivery. Well, labor progressed so fast, I ended up giving birth at home rather than risk the ~40 minute drive to the hospital where my OB was. I was lucky. Other moms won't be if these cuts go through.
Republicans' budget scheme is a death sentence for rural hospitals and maternal care.
Cutting Medicaid will devastate already-strained healthcare systems, leaving pregnant women and new moms without access to life-saving care.
Does that make America great?
#DontMessWithMedicaid
Cutting Medicaid will devastate already-strained healthcare systems, leaving pregnant women and new moms without access to life-saving care.
Does that make America great?
#DontMessWithMedicaid
May 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When I was pregnant with my first, I lived in a county that didn't have a hospital with labor & delivery. Well, labor progressed so fast, I ended up giving birth at home rather than risk the ~40 minute drive to the hospital where my OB was. I was lucky. Other moms won't be if these cuts go through.
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Congress will decide. But housing aid takes a major hit in the White House budget request. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
Trump budget would slash rental aid by 40% -- and let states fill the gap if they want
The proposal would cut off rental subsidies after two years for able-bodied adults. Advocates warn if enacted, the White House plan would tip many low-income renters over the edge into homelessness.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Congress will decide. But housing aid takes a major hit in the White House budget request. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
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Battling over transgender rights, the Trump administration is moving swiftly and strategically to undo, uproot and remake federal housing policy with HUD retreating from long-established fair-housing protections for gender identity.
In battle against transgender rights, Trump targets HUD’s housing policies
In the months since President Donald Trump took back the White House and installed a loyalist to lead the federal housing department, HUD Secretary Scott Turner and his team have moved swiftly to undo, uproot and remake the agency’s decades of work and priorities.
bit.ly
May 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Battling over transgender rights, the Trump administration is moving swiftly and strategically to undo, uproot and remake federal housing policy with HUD retreating from long-established fair-housing protections for gender identity.
Around 22 million Americans live in manufactured homes, the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the US. But this is rapidly changing as private equity-backed companies are increasingly buying these communities, often outbidding residents, as reported by @shelterforce.bsky.social
Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing
Manufactured housing has long been an affordable housing option in the U.S., but affordability is disappearing rapidly. How did we get here?
shelterforce.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Around 22 million Americans live in manufactured homes, the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the US. But this is rapidly changing as private equity-backed companies are increasingly buying these communities, often outbidding residents, as reported by @shelterforce.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, the de facto head of the US government has declared that he's going to save our society from the "fundamental weakness" of empathy.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Meanwhile, the de facto head of the US government has declared that he's going to save our society from the "fundamental weakness" of empathy.
Rural communities will be hit particularly hard by cuts to SNAP. #Rural Americans experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity and nonmetro areas have higher participation rates in SNAP @newrepublic.com
GOP Budget Cuts Stand to Deal Tremendous Damage to Rural Economies
As congressional Republicans mull slashing federal spending, a key nutrition program is on the chopping block—and everyone on our food supply chains could take a hit.
newrepublic.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Rural communities will be hit particularly hard by cuts to SNAP. #Rural Americans experience disproportionately high rates of food insecurity and nonmetro areas have higher participation rates in SNAP @newrepublic.com
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Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Congratulations!
September 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Congratulations!