Congratulations to my brilliant friend and colleague, Katie Meehan, on securing a €2 milllion ERC grant to advance #plumbingpoverty work! I'm grateful to play a small role in telling this important geographic story.

Redlining 2023: between 2017-2020, City National avoided underwriting mortgages in majority Black and Latino neighborhoods in LA County. Other banks received six times the number of mortgage applications that City National received in these neighborhoods. apnews.com/article/city-n…

Ever wondered what I think about the challenges facing the future of geographical thought and praxis? Check out my new piece in Dialogues in Human Geography to learn why I think we need to do a better job at embracing fuzziness, esp. in critical quant/GIS research 🔗👉 doi.org/10.1177/204382…

Well, there it is. Official announcement that we won't have a PUMS for the 2020 decennial census. Instead, the Bureau will release privacy-protected microdata instead.

The deeply disturbing decline in U.S. life expectancy continues: 78.8 in 2019 to 76.1 in 2021. What's not highlighted here are the unsettling disparities in life expectancy by race/ethnicity 👇 The need for transformational policymaking is now.

Join us for a panel discussion on racist housing covenants in Tucson, on 4/28 at 12PM Arizona time! Registration link below 👇

Friday! Join our Housing Dept. for this important conversation 🏠

This is a great step forward for data👇

Join us next Friday, Aug. 25 as we present our interactive web-based map highlighting the geography of racist Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CCRs) in Tucson that were enacted between 1912-1968. Funded by the 2022 Mellon Borderlands grant funding from University of Arizona Libraries.

University of Arizona researchers have mapped more than 200 Tucson subdivisions with racist housing restrictions in their founding documents. tucson.com/news/local/sub…

NEW: The Census Bureau is proposing to test asking people age 15 and older questions about their sexual orientation and gender identity through the American Community Survey next year to help with civil rights and equal employment enforcement hansilowang.com/post/728891016…

📍Our paper 'The Ground Rent Machine' is out in American Association of Geographers! Using critical quant, we illustrate the uneven and racialized geog of ground rent in Baltimore (roughly 1 in 3 homes), shaping the geog of segregation and housing inequality. Grateful to Dillon Mahmoudi my dear friend + colleague.

'This is break glass in case of emergency stuff': Analysts alarmed by threats to US data gathering apnews.com/article/data-c…

🗞️NEW LAW in AZ takes down barriers for those wanting to redact racist language from their CC&Rs👍 See the research Jason Jurjevich and his team had for Arizona Daily Star in the link below with a link to Mapping Racist Covenant's site in the comments 🔗🔗 tucson.com/news/local/ari…

Excited to see this out in Digital Geography & Society! Fun and insightful to examine mundane file formats through the mode of production. This paper looks at the histories of GeoJSON and the Esri Shapefile. doi.org/10.1016/j.digg…

Tech firms shape cities to generate data for their digital products, creating a feedback loop: they invest in urban property & design spaces that capture and reinforce consumer preferences. New open-access paper w/ Anthony Levenda & Alicia Sabatino sciencedirect.com/science/articl…