Steven Schmidt
@stevenschmidt.bsky.social
Assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. I study families, housing, and health. (Mostly) qualitative researcher: Tell me more about that! https://stevenschmidt.info/
New paper out this week in Nature! We construct the first national dataset of FHA and VA lending and show that Black households were largely excluded from these federally subsidized mortgages. Important context for studying the roots of modern segregation and racial wealth gap.
"The focus on housing affordability, however, ignores the issue of housing quality. These are not two separate issues, but rather, two sides of the same coin... [low-income famlies] rent or buy homes that are so deteriorated, that they have become “affordable.” progressive.org/op-eds/the-h...
The Housing Crisis You’re Not Hearing About
Availability and quality are two sides of the same coin.
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⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ Do immigrant neighborhoods face the same eviction rates as non-immigrant neighborhoods? New paper by Leung, Louis, Rangel, and Desmond at the link below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our latest paper from the Jail & Family Life Study, "One More Thing on My Mental List," is now online at @socprobsjournal.bsky.social (with Kristin Turney, Ashley Torres, Isha Bhallamudi, and Amy Gong Liu)! 🧵
Our latest paper from the Jail & Family Life Study, "One More Thing on My Mental List," is now online at @socprobsjournal.bsky.social (with Kristin Turney, Ashley Torres, Isha Bhallamudi, and Amy Gong Liu)! 🧵
Anxious children, anxious parents… Is it also because today we are pressured to overinvest financially and emotionally into our children? I really enjoyed a podcast conversation with pediatrician Dr. Ted Plimpton, one of his first with a sociologist. #parenting #anxiety #pressure
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo agoListen: Overinvested author @ninabandelj.bsky.social speaks with Edward Plimpton, host of Your Anxious Child, about “intensive parenting” and parental burnout:
Our 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 report, out today, reveals 22.7 million cost-burdened renters, record-low mobility, and home sales at 30-year lows as Americans struggle with affordability. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
⚠️ Our June issue is now live! ⚠️ In addition to a great set of articles, editors @annowens.bsky.social and @ordinarysquares.bsky.social introduce the new cover and the new City Books section, in which we highlight new books in urban sociology. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
My book is on her way into the world! I am proud and grateful. It is about how immigrant women's carework – in families, schools, and communities – weaves together the protections of sanctuary. Pre-orders are available now. If you know someone who might be interested, please share!
Holding On to Home by Sarah Bruhn - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Three Decades Since Kathy Edin's Making Ends Meet - two special issues from Russell Sage! @ffcws.bsky.social
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 12 (1)
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Are you, like me, calling your Members of Congress tonight to ask that they push for reinstatement of the National Science Board? Need an easy, informative script to follow? @standupforscience.net has one for you in their Open Letter at www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...
NASEM Open Letter to Congress demanding the restoration of the NSB — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
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#FromtheArchives 10 years ago, CiCo published a special issue on residential segregation, asking authors to consider the role of segregation then and in the future. These essays, exploring racial stratification, opportunity, and urban transformation, are still highly relevant. Revisit here:
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Rise and grind! Those carefully hedged paragraphs are not going to write themselves
Submissions for #2026APPAM close on WEDNESDAY! I would love to see your work submitted to the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area. (Yes, it continues to bug me that the conference theme is "50 States..." and the logo only shows 48, but submit anyway!)
APPAM @appam.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt's time to submit your abstract for #2026APPAM! Learn more: https://ow.ly/apx450Y8UK6
Massachusetts has an underused tool for social housing: local redevelopment authorities. A new paper argues for improved funding and capacity, a clearer mandate, and stronger coordination with housing authorities. Read the paper & join us tomorrow (April 14): www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/new-man...
A New Mandate: Redevelopment Authorities and Social Housing in Massachusetts
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🚨URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! Write to your House Representative and Senators TODAY to share your concerns and urge them to act ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente... #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE
Stop the Administration’s Dismantling of NSF’s SBE Directorate Now!
A consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is…
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Really enjoyed this excellent new residential mobility paper on "opportunity finds." We assume that families move through active housing searches. But many families find homes without actively searching, with consequences for residential inequality. Check it out! academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
When the house finds you: unanticipated opportunities in the housing “search”
ABSTRACT. Prior research on residential selection generally assumes households find housing by actively searching for it. This assumption has led scholars
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ASA member Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social traces how the concept of gentrification has evolved to express widespread ambivalence about economic inequality and unease with various forms of social change. @princetonupress.bsky.social
The Death and Life of Gentrification
A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own
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Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...
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We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process. We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Up-front costs (security deposits, fees, etc.) can be a significant strain on renters but a growing number of state and municipal governments have passed legislation intended to reduce up-front costs and regulate when they can be charged. @aherm.bsky.social www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/curbing...
Curbing Fees: How States and Cities are Addressing Up-Front Rental Costs
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We love a good sociological analysis of transit and infrastructure here at @cicojournal.bsky.social - we'd be delighted to review your paper! Follow the journal to keep up on our journey! (Yes, there is a subway in LA...) #CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky
The ">30% income" definition of "cost-burdened" distorts the qualitatively & quantitatively different level of harm to very low-income folk from unaffordable housing. While more middle-income folks are cost-burdened now, very low-income folks are being left with increasingly impossible $ to live on.
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6mo agoA stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
I am incredibly honored that the Death and Life of Gentrification is reviewed in the February 9 issue of the New Yorker. My great thanks to them for their engagement with the book.
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 6mo agoCheck out this @newyorker.com Briefly Noted column for a review of @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social’s The Death and Life of Gentrification:
If you’re a US citizen looking to move abroad because of fear, now you know why immigration happens.