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Fascinating new study in JAMA Pediatrics finds a NYC right-to-counsel program that reduced evictions was *also* associated with a reduction in preterm births and infants born at low weights (h/t Theresa Gaffney in STAT Morning Rounds newsletter) jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

🧵Across the country, housing was on the ballot in this election: National Low Income Housing Coalition's @ourhomesvotes campaign tracked 100+ housing & homelessness ballot measures! Let's celebrate these victories for housing justice, and congratulate the organizers who made them possible.

So great to celebrate Cecile Yama, MD’s nomination for the UCLA Graduate School Chancellor’s Award! NCSP at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA_GIMHSR

🚨 New in JAMA Network Open, co-led by myself and Trisha Santos, MD, MS, examining #AsianAmerican representation in medicine! jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… 🧵 1/9 While the group is often seen as overrepresented, our disaggregated analysis reveals stark disparities for Southeast Asians.

Landlords are raising rental listing prices by more than 50% to profit from the fires. Penal Code 396 prohibits price-gouging during a state of emergency. chelsea has started a doc of the listings: bit.ly/price-gouging-… Contributions welcome!

A furnished Bel Air home went on Zillow today for $29,500 / month. A few months ago, it was asking $15,900. I called up the agent. She said she told her client to re-list the home after this week's L.A. fires. "People are desperate," she said. "You can probably get good money."

Homes in L.A. were still smoldering when Zillow rents started to spike. Volunteer rent gouging sleuths quickly started tracking the data. They found 1,343 listings that appear to have broken the law. My LAist story is the first to report on their findings.

Collectively, these listings appear to have sought to illegally overcharge tenants by $92.4 million / year. Likely rent gouging wasn't limited to mansions in the hills. Many listings were in Koreatown and South L.A. Get more details in the full story: laist.com/news/housing-h…

AFTER THE LA FIRES: RENT-GOUGING IN THE WAKE OF DISASTER Read the report: rentbrigade.org/report

NEW #Article: Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning by Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Magda Maaoui, PhD & Sophia Wedeen buff.ly/3CS8TIm #Rent #housing #segregation #UrbanEquality

Pleased to share our paper published today in Hypertension. Using data from the Jackson Heart Study and a computer simulation, we found maintaining normal BP over the lifecourse could add up to 4.5 years of life and 6 years of healthy life.