Samara Scheckler
@samarascheckler.bsky.social
Housing and long-term care researcher at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, urban hiker, fiction and poetry reader, parent to two wild and woolies, cat video watcher
I hope you'll join me online tomorrow to talk about our opportunities to improve equity in late life housing!
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies@harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhat does it mean to age in place & who has the option to do so? In an @mitagelab.bsky.social event on Feb 27, our @samarascheckler.bsky.social will discuss the barriers that limit options, who is at risk for encountering them, and policies to expand options for all older adults. shorturl.at/UOAp1
Federal rental assistance helps older adults stay in their homes. #housing
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies@harvard-jchs.bsky.social · last yr.For older adults, housing is their greatest expense. In 2021, over half of older renter households (56% or over four million households) were cost burdened, and more than 4 in 10 older renters had less than $1,000 in cash savings. @justiceinaging.org justiceinaging.org/the-importan...
New research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that mass deportations would likely worsen the housing shortage by decimating the labor force. Immigrants make up >23% of the construction workforce & more in FL, TX. About half are estimated to be undocumented immigrants. www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...
You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie. This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.
The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...
Another example of the high costs of crisis care compared to the much more affordable cost to help people remain housed.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2y agoIn Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
Imagine ticketing a person in labor for being unhoused instead of calling for emergency medical care. Where are our helpers?
Margot Kushel MD@mkushel.bsky.social · 2y agoA police officer cited a homeless woman for "camping" as she was in active labor. In some ways, the logical end result of policies that criminalize sleeping--for people who have no other place to go. @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social & I are quoted @sylviaruthg.bsky.social www.lpm.org/news/2024-12...
As people live longer, they are burdened by disease, a new study from the American #Medical Association shows. Americans live w/ diseases for an avg of 12.4 yrs, an increase from 10.9 in 2000. US Women spent on average 2.6 more yrs sick than men. #Medsky #DisabilityRights #ACA #ChronicIllness
NEW: Maine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them. For those who are evicted from public housing in Maine, experts say the consequence “is almost certainly homelessness.” w/ @bangordailynews.bsky.social
Maine Public Housing Tenants Face Eviction at High Rates. A New Program to Keep Renters Housed Excludes Them.
For those who are evicted from public housing in Maine, experts say the consequence “is almost certainly homelessness.”
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While household demographics are typically categorized according to the characteristics of the householder, half of the 13.5 million multi-race households in the US are categorized as white using this method.
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies@harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 2y agoThe standard way of categorizing US households may not fully capture the racial/ethnic diversity that exists. A new paper uses the race/ethnicity of all adults to explore the characteristics of 13.5 million multi-race households. www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/identif...
Daniel Gibbs is a retired neurologist who has #dementia due to #Alzheimer's. He wrote the book, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease." I haven't read his book, but his blog has lots of great information, opinions & experiences. tattooonmybrain.com
A Tattoo On My Brain
A neurologist's personal battle against Alzheimer's disease
tattooonmybrain.com
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How could anyone who has used health insurance still assume that efficiency and profit taking go hand in hand?
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2y agoThe credulous language with which the legacy media is describing an effort by billionaires to loot the federal government. Privatizing prisons makes the more cruel. Privatizing the post office betrays a promise of access made at nation's founding. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/u...
Great example of YIMBY zoning reforms happening in Minneapolis! www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...
Minneapolis Land Use Reforms Offer a Blueprint for Housing Affordability
Minneapolis was once among the cities whose zoning policies prevented sufficient housing construction. In the early 2000s, the city maintained strict requirements related to parking, land use, and bui...
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Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · 2y agoSo proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
it is funny how much the politicized version of immigration economics discourse is "Immigrants supply labor but do not demand labor, thus lowering wages for Americans. Except in the housing market, where immigrants demand housing without supplying it, thus driving up prices for Americans"
Affordable is such a relatively term...
Brendan Duke@brendanvduke.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump’s Treasury pick Scott Bessent’s view is that paying promised Social Security benefits is unaffordable but extending the Trump tax cuts is affordable. The reality is that they cost the same. It’s a question of priorities.
More reasons to worry about institutional investors.
Tony Damiano@tonydamiano.bsky.social · 2y agoNew Research Thread🧵: We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/
The #ENABLEAct preserves ABLE to Work, the Savers Credit & 529 rollovers past 2025. Makes it permanent, in fact. It’s bipartisan. It’s passed the Senate. Learn how to help it pass the House at this link. This is an achievable goal. #disability #personalfinance femmefrugality.com/enable-act/
The ENABLE Act | Femme Frugality
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Making parking fully flexible for daycares is something any community can do to make families lives easier right now! More daycare openings with no taxpayer money at all. A win-win. 1/ www.sightline.org/2024/11/19/p...
Parking Mandates Are Keeping Kids Out of Daycare - Sightline Institute
But cities can ditch these arbitrary rules and help families out of the daycare desert.
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Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? Join us @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social for a webinar on Wednesday Dec 11 at noon PT homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/ele... With: Marc Dones @annymoliva.bsky.social Chione Flegal
Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond? | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Join the UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative for a webinar to explore the implications of the 2024 election for homelessness on the West Coast and beyond. Margot Kushel, MD, will moderate a...
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Petition to make "Hi, what are you reading?" the conventional greeting. "How are you doing?" hasn't been appropriate for some time now. Deprecated.
Starting this list … please respond if you work on US national #housing policy issues too and I will add you! 🙏💙 go.bsky.app/5Xzj7gr
I tried to pull together some housing and homelessness folks! I am sure I missed many. Comment to add more! go.bsky.app/JGmu7Nf
Excited to talk about aging in community! Spoiler - living with low income makes it harder.
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies@harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 2y agoMany older adults want to live independently but can only do so if they have help with bathing, shopping, cooking, etc, and many cannot afford this help, particularly after paying for housing. Join us this Friday, Nov 15 @ 12:15 pm ET. www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/dua...
