A change for me: after ~8 years at I'm now at to lead an initiative helping cities develop & evaluate equitable housing policy. So grateful for my time at Urban & excited for the Housing Solutions Lab official launch in June!
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Martha Galvez
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Executive Director, the NYU Housing Solutions Lab . Research on housing & access to opportunity. Views are my own.
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New from : Study finds that public housing residents experience higher levels of air pollution
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Black women & women of color have historically had disproportionately less access to family planning resources— this is a great loss but not a new one.
Go to lizzolovesyou.com to donate, sign the Bans Off My Body petition and sign up to volunteer and take action.
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Blue cities in purple states could, ahem, build more housing
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The left trusted our institutions. The right took them over.
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The left failed. The right planned.
Passionate about helping cities advance evidence-based housing policies that center racial equity, increase access to opportunity, and promote residents' health and well-being?
Come join our team!
We're hiring a Data and Research Analyst.
Apply today!
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This sums up the importance & lack of meaningful fair housing enforcement: "the burden of enforcement generally falls to the individual. You have to know your housing rights to seek redress, and you need the wherewithal to take action." Testing, information & enforcement matter.
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LGBTQ Americans finally won Fair Housing Act protections. Here’s how they’re working. (via @voxdotcom / @rmc031) vox.com/23046516/trans
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Missed our event on Legal Frameworks for Addressing Racial Disparities in Housing? Take a look at the event recap just posted on Lab Notes:
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While many heralded Minneapolis's 2018 move to essentially ban single-family zoning, the change hasn't spurred a flood of new units.
But that's also because it was just one of a package of reforms in the city's 2040 comprehensive plan.
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New guest post on Lab Notes from our partners ! Read about how community health data 📈can inform a local housing strategy. #healthandhousing 👇
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Join us on Thursday for a #FairHousingMonth discussion of law, housing, and racial disparities. bit.ly/legalframeworks
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MacKenzie Scott's $436M gift to Habitat for Humanity and new housing construction technologies will not alone solve the U.S. housing crisis, housing experts explain
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Three weeks left for cities to apply for a spot in our second peer cities network.
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Apply for the Housing Solutions Lab’s Peer Cities Network by Feb 25 if you are a policy official or stakeholder from a small or midsize U.S. city and are interested in resources, technical assistance, and peer learning to advance race and health equity
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In a new post at Lab Notes, Ruben Anguiano lays out the next steps for places to address past planning harms, building on the lessons of our Reckoning with Segregation event →
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Infuriating. We need to get these nominees on the job.
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Today every R on the Senate Banking & Housing committee voted against confirming President Biden’s highly qualified nominees to lead critical components of HUD’s work - an egregious and deeply harmful example of how polarized Congress has become. 
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Come work with us! We need a research associate and a data analyst to help build and lead our housing research with cities. Happy to answer questions about our work and these positions!
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We’re hiring
!! We are looking for someone to join our @local_housing team as a Housing Solutions Lab Research Associate! If you are interested in applying for the position, click the link below or share it with a friend!
furmancenter.org/about/jobs#lab
!! We are looking for someone to join our @local_housing team as a Housing Solutions Lab Research Associate! If you are interested in applying for the position, click the link below or share it with a friend!
furmancenter.org/about/jobs#lab7
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This is such good news for 75 Philly youth exiting foster care but so many more need safe, stable housing.
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“It is much harder to start a job, career, or perform well in school when you don’t have a safe, stable place to sleep at night. I am... excited about the lives that will change,” said @PhilaHsgAuthPHA president & CEO Kelvin Jeremiah.
Via @Philasunnews
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The studies keep getting bigger and the bottom line keeps staying the same.
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In a new @nberpubs study of rental applications across the U.S., landlords were more likely to respond to White-sounding names (60% response rate), versus names associated with African American (54%) and Hispanic (57%) identities.
Via @itskelseybutler ow.ly/1k4250GZMcn
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Por favor, únase a nosotros apoyando nuestro PTO en la recaudación de fondos para esfuerzos vs. COVID para un aprendizaje más seguro; comestibles y actividades de bienestar mental para los estudiantes y solicitudes de maestros para los artículos de mejora del aula. ¡Gracias!
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This piece uses the Orange Mound neighborhood in Memphis as an example to describe the historical struggles of being a Black homeowner in America and the inequities that continue to persist between White and Black homeowners.
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We are so close. My kids got the 1st shot, with no tears and no side effects (ice cream helped). While we wait for the 2nd shot there have been two more rounds of quarantines and cases at their school.
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Get your kids vaccinated - 32 % jump in cases in kids in just 2 weeks. nytimes.com/2021/11/23/us/
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This left me sad and angry. Sad that the buying frenzy story it tells is so broken, and angry that an important piece—what happens to neighborhoods, and to the residents who can’t keep up—is mostly left out.
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I'm still somehow publishing at urban from beyond the veil.
We found some concerning land use policy trends: local governments are relying on market mechanisms (like inclusionary zoning) more and more, instead of affirmatively financing affordable housing. (Thread)
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In new @urbaninstitute research with @LydiaLoDC2 & @patrickspauster, we investigate changing ways that US cities are supporting affordable housing, between 2003-2019.
Localities are increasingly using market-reliant tools rather than self-funded efforts: urban.org/research/publi
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I love which takes the time to get to the root of this important history.
How A History Of Racial Discrimination Created ‘Islands of Disadvantage’ In Northern Virginia
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DC vaccination pop-up clinic at Marie Reed in AdMo with PTO happening now with spots still available.
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We're more than half way through our first Housing Solutions Workshop, and the team has been such a phenomenal partner. It is so inspiring to hear how city leaders are working improve housing equity and affordability.
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"The biggest benefit is the ability to confer with similar communities...I’m a huge proponent of crowd-sourced solutions, and, in this case, I think the opportunity to connect with other cities can help make our planning even better."
via @huntsvillecity
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“This housing surge shows that when our community partners come together toward a common goal, we can quickly lift people out of homelessness and connect them with housing,” said
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Our Director of Law and Policy Sophie House spoke with recently about the measure and how it stacks up to other rent regulation policies nationwide:
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Such an inspiring discussion! So many thanks to , 's , Boulder's Clay Fong, Louisville's Emily Liu & ' Andrea Brennan for sharing how they are confronting housing inequality and structural racism in their cities.
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Thanks to our amazing panelists and moderator! For those who missed it, event video coming soon. Stay updated on that and future events at localhousingsolutions.org/sign-up
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My research with Rachel Fyall cited in article on eviction crisis.
Formal evictions are rising, but many more tenants have already been illegally evicted over the past year by landlords.
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Starting now!
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Happening now! Our panel discussion on the impact of historic planning decisions on housing inequalities. Register and join below:
nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regist
Many thanks to Dr. María Marquez from for joining an info session for families about the covid vaccine for children. Fielding questions and sharing knowledge about vaccine safety was so important to our school community. Muchísimas gracias!
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The Lab's 1st blog post! Black homeownership rates are declining in small/midsize cities. In some places declines obscure some positive trends, but in others they reflect losses in Black residents and wealth. Policy implications are different. Thanks Carl Hedman & Sophie House!
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Introducing our new blog Housing Solutions Lab Notes! Read our first post on Black homeownership trends in small and midsize cities → ow.ly/3OyK50GFkN92
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"12.5% of appraisals in majority-Black census tracts came in below the contract price of the houses they assessed compared to 7.4% of appraisals in white tracts. For appraisals in majority-Latino tracts, 15.4% were valued lower than the contract price."
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Other stat: a 4th, 3rd & pk class quarantined. My 9yo was exposed but notice was delayed so she was in class and activities for days, clueless. She’s fine & we test often, but kids, teachers & staff are not ok. twitter.com/codybnorton/st
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A new opportunity for leaders from cities of 50-500k population to learn about equitable housing policy and work on comprehensive housing strategies with a team of housing policy experts. Apply by 9/10.
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Enjoy reading our content, but looking for more support in shaping your local housing strategy?
Apply to this 4-week intensive Housing Solutions Workshop.
>> localhousingsolutions.org/lab/workshop
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Calling all leaders in small and midsize cities and counties (50-500K pop). Join , , and the Lincoln Institute for a workshop to develop your comprehensive housing strategy
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