Sean Angst

Postdoctoral Researcher @ USC Equity Research Institute

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

If Ezra’s complaint is just that environmental review takes a long time, then — much like with zoning and permitting review at the local level — the real problem he should seek to solve is the understaffing and underfunding of government agencies. That’s the primary reason those things take such a long time.

[Alex Press @alexnpress]

they should be paid the same as any other firefighter https://t.co/CPLG5qFKFC

[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!

[Maggie Angst @MaggieAngst]

Exclusive: Within 13 months, four clients and one staff member fatally overdosed at facilities run by San Francisco's largest addiction treatment provider.

Their deaths are among several signs that HealthRight’s programs are not working as designed.
https://t.co/KWYMRbMHbD

[Minnie @saintdutchess]

Photographs taken by Mohammed Salem and Klaus Thymann showing the rise of parkour in Gaza’s Al-Shati and Khan Younis refugee camps.

[Maggie Angst @MaggieAngst]

Jessica didn’t know she was pregnant. But unexpectedly giving birth wasn't enough to loosen fentanyl's grip.

w/ @Cat_Ho and @gabriellelurie

https://t.co/WeiVFZ0CVS

[Pratt Center @prattcenter]

Our new research shows that home flippers target NYC's neighborhoods of color & scarce affordable homes, driving prices up and residents out. Building on the work of groups like @enycoalition, we examine policies to curb this speculation.

Full report: https://t.co/J1LxVYU2Q2
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[Sam Sacks @SamSacks]

It’s frustrating cuz many of us were in real time in 2022 talking about how letting these programs lapse will be a disaster for Biden, but liberals and progressives just kept droning on about how he’s the best president of their life and we don’t know how to take a W.

[The Bad Side @_thebadside]

“the time was ripe for a new maneuver. In fact, a frontal confrontation: a way to exploit the campus setting’s peculiar combustibility.

The rallies gave way, suddenly, to the seizure—and defense—of space.”

Our latest pamphlet, on the encampments:
https://t.co/M4ls648vgO

[Cave Canem @cavecanempoets]

Happy 90th birthday to poet, playwright, teacher, and activist Sonia Sanchez. Sanchez was one of our very first Retreat Faculty—just one of the many ways she paved the way for young Black poets in the world.

🎥 from her Legacy Conversation with Lucille Clifton, 2001

[John Mark Newman @johnmarknewman]

Imagine the look on the DOJ attorney's face who searched the document production for "price fixing" -- just on the off chance it popped -- and found this, from the RealPage antitrust complaint:

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

In Atlanta, where Cortland Mgmt is based, rents have increased **56%** since 2016, when algorithmic price fixing tools took hold.

Supply and demand do not explain inflated rental prices. Rental housing cartels do, and @JusticeATR is cracking down on these criminal conspiracies.

[Jovanna Rosen @JovannaRosen]

New @JUAurban paper with @angstondeck @sdegregorio @GaryDeanPainter on rental affordability. We use survey data to show pervasive impacts, which force long-term consumption cutbacks, reshape work and housing arrangements, and obscure precarity. https://t.co/gTmFLcIurn

[Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) @JUAurban]

NEW: How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles. https://t.co/wvaemWHJQn @RoutledgeGPU @JRE_UAA @UAAnews @DrBHanlon
@angstondeck @JovannaRosen @sdegregorio @GaryDeanPainter
#rent #affordability #housing #LosAngeles #UrbanStudies

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

CALL TO ACTION: The rent is too damn high. Eviction rates are higher than they were before the pandemic. And The real estate industry has too much power over our lives and our homes. Here’s the good news: You can do something to help! 1/n 🧵

[Ben Harrell 🌐 @elben]

Can’t stop thinking about this story. A *QUARTER* of all CT State troopers wrote tens of thousands of fake tickets to fake white people, likely to hide over-policing of minorities. Both the number of tickets and the share of troopers is ASTOUNDING.

https://t.co/9bLlqEjoX5

[Ann Owens @AnnOwens_]

The avg cost of building a single LIHTC unit in CA was ~ $500k from 2016-19 (per Terner Center; higher now). That covers $500 monthly payments for 1000 months, or 83 years. We need a social safety net to prevent homelessness, AND we need increase supply to make housing affordable

[UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative @ucsfbhhi]

Here’s what people said would have prevented their homelessness:

• 70%: Additional $300-$500/mo.
• 82%: One-time $5000-$10,000
• 90%: Housing Choice Voucher

🔗 https://t.co/6WadT9efrP #CAHomelessnessStudy #CASPEH

[Alissa Walker @awalkerinLA]

Hi, LAUSD mom here, convening folks to solve these problems is a great idea.

But drivers killing kids walking to school is not in any way similar to the other problems here. Traffic fatalities are preventable with infrastructure that the mayor could begin installing *tomorrow*

[Jack Ross @m0thercity]

They also say the housing department is not enforcing the city’s Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance. As of September, the city had not referred any of the thousands of complaints it received for prosecution. https://t.co/GhkJlFiYo0