@timthomas

Research Director @UCBDisplacement. Dir. @EvictionNet. Urban sociologist, demographer, & data scientist. Tweets are my own. (he/him)

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#Eviction are far above historical average in #WashingtonState. King, Spokane, and Clark saw the highest 12-month count in recorded history. Increase follows lifting pandemic protections in July 2023 (e.g., EPRAP & the #Eviction Resolution Pilot Program. evictionresearch.net/washing…
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Come work with us! Deadline is tomorrow, April 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jkb…

Eviction-CSS Postdoc Job Description.pdf

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Tim Thomas@timthomas23 Mar 2023
We're hiring a PhD postdoc at Berkeley for #eviction Research and Computational Social Science Training. 2/3rds research and 1/3rd teaching social science grads #MachineLearning #NLP #Statistics #postdocjobs #Sociology @AcademicJobs DM me for details
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More details about this postdoc position here drive.google.com/file/d/1jkb…

Eviction-CSS Postdoc Job Description.pdf

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Tim Thomas@timthomas23 Mar 2023
We're hiring a PhD postdoc at Berkeley for #eviction Research and Computational Social Science Training. 2/3rds research and 1/3rd teaching social science grads #MachineLearning #NLP #Statistics #postdocjobs #Sociology @AcademicJobs DM me for details
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We're hiring a PhD postdoc at Berkeley for #eviction Research and Computational Social Science Training. 2/3rds research and 1/3rd teaching social science grads #MachineLearning #NLP #Statistics #postdocjobs #Sociology @AcademicJobs DM me for details
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Excited to be leading this new $2.2 million capacity -- and data! -- building initiative funded by @RWJF! Please apply to work with us -- for free!
School of Cities@UofTCities2 Mar 2023
Today, SofC & @UCBerkeley are co-launching the Equitable Development Data Insight Training Initiative, which will provide free data analysis and storytelling training to organizations and local governments working towards urban equity. Find out more: to.equitabledev.org/SocTWpos…
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Stopping continual medicaid will likely exacerbate the #eviction cliff we're starting to see in the data if health costs increase while qualified recipients can't get their paperwork in time. npr.org/sections/health-shot…

6.8 million expected to lose Medicaid when paperwork hurdles return

Since early in the pandemic, people on Medicaid have been able to stay enrolled without reapplying. That will change in April and millions of eligible people will lose the coverage.

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If you’re interested in working with evictions data and on housing justice there are TWO new research positions at Portland State! Senior research associate: jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/40… And Research associate specializing mixed methods for evaluation: jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/40…
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Evictions are piling up across the U.S. as Covid-era protections end and rents climb nbcnews.com/politics/politic… via @nbcnews

Evictions are piling up across the U.S. as Covid-era protections end and rents climb

Eviction filings have been increasing since the spring in many places and the problem is expected to get worse in the coming months as federal rental assistance runs out.

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2 great research faculty job postings for quant and qual researchers at @Portland_State University working on #eviction in Oregon. Please pass around!! @EvictedInOregon #racialjustice #policy #DataScience dm me for ??s evictedinoregon.com/hiring
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DSS or QSS? That is the question (answered in this tweet). Both are introductory books to quantitative methods in the social sciences written by Kosuke Imai @Harvard (alone or with co-authors). Which one is a better fit for you or for your class? A quick 🧵...
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Want to see for yourself? You can read the first chapter of DSS for free here: press.princeton.edu/books/pa… And you can read the first chapter of QSS for free here: press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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Side by side comparison of the Area Depravation Index by the folks at UW and the Neighborhood Deprivation Index I created using the sfdep package. My code here: rpubs.com/codargarza/952910 Similarities: border communities have high levels of depravation.
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🎉🎉 The 2021 1-year American Community Survey microdata are out today! 🎉🎉 Use them *right now* in #rstats tidycensus with the `get_pums()` function and the arguments `survey = "acs1"` and `year = 2021` I'll have full 2021 PUMS support (e.g. variable recoding) up on CRAN soon
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Today we're releasing our #oregon #eviction state profile. This is one of the first comprehensive maps for OR in collaboration with Prof. Lisa Bates & her team at @Portland_State & evictedinoregon.com. See the map at evictionresearch.net/oregon/ #ResearchForSocialGood
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Yet another stunning article from the talented @noah_arroyo : Yes, S.F. could turn empty downtown offices into housing. Here’s what it would take sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e… via @sfchronicle

Yes, S.F. could turn empty downtown offices into housing. Here’s what it would take

If creating housing from office space is such a good idea, then why hasn’t it happened...

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Bedstuy lost 22K black residents while it gained 30K white residents. Chinatowns built nearly 100 years ago across the nation are being decimated. In NYC, Latinx residents are most likely to be threatened with eviction. As promised,🧵on racialized displacement in NYC
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The legacy of redlining is seen today in #eviction patterns. Our website allows you to overlay 1930's redline zones with eviction rates. In #Indianapolis, many tracts w/ the highest rates of eviction today were rated as "D - Hazardous" or "C - Definitely Declining" in the '30s.
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In #Delaware, #Indiana & #Minnesota, we found 3 things: #eviction filing rates dropped with the CARESAct and local/state/federal moratoria; Black and “Other” renters face the highest eviction rates; eviction rates are now returning to and rising above their pre-pandemic levels.
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Indiana historical average 2020 to 2022

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Minnesota eviction rates during the pandemic

ALT Minnesota eviction rates during the pandemic

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