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Steven Schmidt
@stevenschmidt.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. I study families, housing, and health. Qualitative researcher: Tell me more about that!

https://stevenschmidt.info/
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leahegose.bsky.social
Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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rahimk.bsky.social
The fascist history of today’s anti-immigrant housing policy:

theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...

In the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith became known as the country’s “most infamous American fascist,” campaigning for president on the America First ticket and advancing a Christian Nationalist platform.
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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contexts.org
One thing Doug Massey knows? Social inequality is firmly grounded in geographic inequality. 📍

Check out his new essay for @contexts.org ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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elizabethdavis.bsky.social
It’s their safety shakedown school
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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mckenziefunk.com
The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
Screenshot of the article by Nicole Foy of ProPublica: "When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched. About two dozen Americans have said they were held for more than a day without being able to phone lawyers or loved ones."
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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vanhookjenny.bsky.social
In a new Demography article with @marasheftel.bsky.social we document the aging of the undocumented immigrant population. Half of undocumented Asians and one in five undocumented Mexicans are 50 or older, and now entering older adulthood without a safety net.
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
The Growth and Diversity of Older Undocumented Immigrants in the United States | Demography | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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rdnayak.bsky.social
Fantastic report by the SHIFT Project team + @profsheenalives.bsky.social and @juliesulabor.bsky.social
Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers - The Shift Project
Read the Full Article Amazon has revolutionized shopping and challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail. But at the heart of this logistics […]
shift.hks.harvard.edu
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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asanews.bsky.social
ASA member Vanessa Delgado @vanessadelgado.bsky.social (Washington State University) was interviewed about higher education pathways for students living in the U.S. without legal authorization & the ways the administration is affecting their options. @us.theconversation.com
A fragmented legal system and threat of deportation are pushing higher education out of reach for many undocumented students
While some students living in the US without legal authorization can apply for private scholarships or state-based financial aid, a growing number of states are changing the rules.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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ksmock.bsky.social
my paper with my colleague and friend Victoria Tran is finally out!
uaanews.bsky.social Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · Oct 6
NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Between the city and the people: The pitfalls and potential of hyper-local governance of the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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hopeharvey.bsky.social
New article with @kelleyfong.bsky.social in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/socp...
When the house finds you: unanticipated opportunities in the housing “search”
ABSTRACT. Prior research on residential selection generally assumes households find housing by actively searching for it. This assumption has led scholars
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
stevenschmidt.bsky.social
I’m excited to be on this panel in a couple weeks. Come join us as we chat about housing quality in the US!
irpwisc.bsky.social Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · Sep 10
📣 Join us for an upcoming 9/30 webinar on "Understanding the Cost of Housing Quality on Families and Communities" with panelists @stevenschmidt.bsky.social, Erik Hembre, and Christine Ekenga. Register today:
www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/und...
Understanding the Cost of Housing Quality on Families and Communities
Research | Training | Policy | Practice
www.irp.wisc.edu
September 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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annowens.bsky.social
📢 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)
UC Stand Up
Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup Click here for news updates
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September 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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gretchentg.bsky.social
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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novumsimulacrum.com
The Community and Urban Sociology Section's summer newsletter is online. The newsletter features two city spotlight pieces on Chicago, along with a list of section sessions. See you there!

comurb.org/wp-conten...
August 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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kbrickell.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

🏹 Please spread the word!
July 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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niskanencenter.bsky.social
New report by @zparolin.bsky.social: Housing costs, especially in high-cost states like California, are a massive driver of poverty.

A few of Zach's key findings ⬇️ 🧵
July 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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harvard-jchs.bsky.social
A full 65% of working-age renters can’t cover non-housing costs after monthly housing payments. @patrickcsisson.bsky.social @bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Renters Face Storm of Rising Costs
A building boom has helped slow rent increases. But affordable apartments remain scarce, and higher energy costs and cuts to housing aid further cloud the forecast.
www.bloomberg.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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rahimk.bsky.social
It's publication day for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, available in paper & free .epub! It traces a century of struggle over Los Angeles' periphery, culminating in the use of policing to expel and repress Black tenants. Here's a look at its chapters:
June 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨

Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:

Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate

LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...

Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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asanews.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 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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harvard-jchs.bsky.social
With housing costs far above the national average and increasingly severe wildfires fueled by climate change, California faces the difficult task of meeting both affordability and insurability objectives. Our @stevekoller.bsky.social asks: what brought us here?

www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/califor...
California’s Homeowners Insurance Market is a National Bellwether
With rebuilding efforts underway in Los Angeles following January’s devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, the scale of damages and recovery needs i
www.jchs.harvard.edu
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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danielaurbinaj.bsky.social
New paper with Daria Tisch ‪(@dariatisch.bsky.social‬) on fairness perceptions of housework divisions using a multi-factorial experiment in the U.S., now out in one of my favorite journals––Gender and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0891...
Perceived Fairness of Couples’ Division of Housework: Evidence From a Multi-Factorial Experiment in the United States - Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch, 2025
Although the ratio of women’s to men’s housework hours has declined, women still spend more time than men doing household tasks in most high-income contexts. Th...
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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mirandalubbers.bsky.social
My new paper doi.org/10.1093/esr/... explains that personal networks expose us to different degrees to economic distress, which shapes public opinion (here, institutional trust). Yet institutional trust research has largely overlooked networks. #sociology #netsky
The role of social networks in institutional trust during economic downturns
Abstract. Citizens’ trust in institutions is crucial for the proper functioning of societies. While national economic performance is a key predictor of ins
doi.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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danlarremore.bsky.social
Report from @science.org:

• NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced.

• Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9.

• Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn)

www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM