The financialization of housing in Mexico has promoted widespread community organizing in demand of better financing and housing conditions, as well as public and private accountability, writes UC Irvine UCI Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy Assistant Professor Alejandra Reyes. tinyurl.com/Mexihome

Assistant Professor Alejandra Reyes of @ucirvine's UCI Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy co-authors a study of social movements challenging global finance's move into the housing sectors of Mexico and Brazil. tinyurl.com/ARinSage

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youtube.com/watch?v=3LI1Nr… - "Appealing for Local Control & Spatial Inequality," a Zube Lecture Presented by Alejandra Reyes, PhD

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Watch as urban planning & public policy Assistant Professor Alejandra Reyes of UC Irvine presents the Zube Lecture “Appealing for Local Control & Spatial Inequality:” youtube.com/watch?v=3LI1Nr…

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

Appealing for Local Control and Spatial Inequality: Reforming Governance and Development Rationalities in Southern California (open access!) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

☎️ Calling doctoral students, post docs, and early career lecturers/profs ☎️ The 6th Summer Institute in Urban Studies is open for applications! This year it will be held in Belgium in July kuleuven.be/lusi/news-and-…

The 2024 GPEIG business meeting is the largest in the history of GPEIG. All award winners and the new selected GPEIG co-chair are announced. Congratulations to all award winners and Susmita Rishi @susmitarishi threads.net!

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/research/…

The UC Irvine School of UCI Social Ecology hosts a Master of Public Policy information session 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, on Zoom. Attendees will learn about the application process as well as job opportunities for those with MPP degrees. Registration link: bit.ly/ucimppinfo

La Sublime Inteligencia Japonesa. —– Hilo de cosas alucinantes de Japón: 🇯🇵 1. Los inodoros japoneses suelen tener un lavabo en la parte superior, lo que permite lavarse las manos con agua que se reutiliza para la descarga, ahorrando así millones de litros de agua al año.

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.

LA isn’t playing around… There’s a spreadsheet of landlords price-gouging rent during the LA Fires docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Mexico's mass housing: An underexplored locus of informality (open access). This paper discusses an array of irregular and informal practices related to the construction and inhabitation of mass housing built throughout Mexico... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Power Struggle Over Housing in Southern California open.substack.com/pub/journalper…