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Leah Robinson
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PhD Student @ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
#housing & #health, and also #dogs
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
projects.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some more good content for this Monday afternoon
April 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Super excited to share our new paper on national Tenant Right to Counsel policies, out today in @houspoldebate.bsky.social! Grateful to have worked with such an amazing team on this project.
New Study 🔔:

More than 7M Americans face eviction each year. But if they go to court, most do it alone, without a lawyer.

Our researchers studied the initiatives that are trying to change this reality, known as Right to Counsel programs or RTC.

evictionlab.org/disrupting-t...
Disrupting the Eviction System: Tenant Right to Counsel
As a growing number of jurisdictions consider adopting RTC—and as researchers seek to analyze the effects of such programs—it is critical to understand their challenges and the keys to their success. ...
evictionlab.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This seems like a good first Bluesky post. Go O’s!
April 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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🧵New Article
Congratulations to @leah-robinson.bsky.social on a phenomenal paper on disparities in restraint use and chemical sedation by #housing status in the ED
Honored to coauthor with this rising star 💫 and Ambrose Wong @yale-em.bsky.social

#EMedsky #Medsky #HealthEquity #homelessness 1/
Disparities in use of physical restraint and chemical sedation in the emergency department by patient housing status
Background A growing body of research has found there to be disproportionate physical restraint and chemical sedation use for historically marginalized populations in the emergency department (ED). Th...
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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