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[Kate @LeifScience]

I put together some data on LA City Council Members' handling of encampments and housing policy. The data show council members differ sharply in sweeps, arrests, and housing-based solutions. Some are following the science; others are not.

Check it out! https://t.co/2HQFouJr5K

[Kate @LeifScience]

@dgsomucla press release here: https://t.co/qKWsA5gu4y

[Kate @LeifScience]

New article in @AMJPublicHealth led by @NCSP_UCLA fellow @CecileYaks! We find that 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit reduced energy insecurity (difficulty paying utility bills) among US families. Open Access link here: https://t.co/UtHxiMteyD

[Kathryn Foti @fotikat]

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.

[Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) @JUAurban]

NEW #Article: Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning by Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, @MagdaMaaoui & @SophiaWedeen
https://t.co/ryiRfDdELt
#Rent #housing #segregation #UrbanEquality

[Kate @LeifScience]

@gabegabeyeah 🎉🎉🎉

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

AFTER THE LA FIRES:
RENT-GOUGING IN THE WAKE OF DISASTER

Read the report: https://t.co/46GK2Eo0FU

[David Wagner @radiowagner]

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: https://t.co/qshBGw0GZ7

[David Wagner @radiowagner]

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.

[David Wagner @radiowagner]

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."

[L.A. Tenants Union @LATenantsUnion]

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.

@bad_tenant has started a doc of the listings:
https://t.co/nI0txuwkEa

Contributions welcome!

[Kate @LeifScience]

@LATenantsUnion is tracking price gouging here

[L.A. Tenants Union @LATenantsUnion]

@LeifScience Add it to https://t.co/qR6eJVzsLn !

[Kate @LeifScience]

@LATenantsUnion

[Kate @LeifScience]

Beware of price gouging, LosAngeles! The rental house next door to me (which has been on the market and sitting vacant since August) just tried to increase the asking rent by over 50% ! Report bad actors at https://t.co/syYH354VLC

[Kate @LeifScience]

More info on CA’s price gouging ban here: https://t.co/6YLrNLpRHm

[Carlos Oronce, MD, PhD @cioronce]

🚨 New in @JAMANetworkOpen, co-led by myself and @TrishaSantosMD, examining #AsianAmerican representation in medicine!
https://t.co/gN5ZAsz6qt

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While the group is often seen as overrepresented, our disaggregated analysis reveals stark disparities for Southeast Asians.

[Kate @LeifScience]

@ChildTrends @MEF_Associates @JHPedsResearch @UCLAMCH @dgsomucla @JHPedsResearch
@JHUNursing

[Kate @LeifScience]

New Research Brief out with @YiyuCh @Gabrielpinab and @ElianaPerrin on the role of Pandemic Emergency Rental Assistance in addressing material hardships among low-income renter families with children. Work funded by @RWJF @HEResearch! https://t.co/7oTMLX1DC4