Geographer @SGDE_UArizona, wanderer of financial borderscapes, and manufactured housing. Views my own. Retweets and follows not 🟰 endorsements.

Joined April 2015
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7 Nov 2023
Excited to share my recent article, “Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing,” with coauthors Margaret Wilder, @kgmm21, @lemccann_ua, and @softsubversions in Energy Research & Social Science . sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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17 Sep 2025
A lot of post-Helene Google Street View imagery has filtered in over the past few months. I'm slowly piecing together some pre/post storm comparisons 🧵 📍 Bat Cave, NC
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Please join us next week for our early career keynote lecture featuring @Devika__narayan and @outtaKimbo Wednesday 3/26, 10.10AM - 11.30AM EST
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There are 1.2 million mobile homes - factory built houses from before 1976 - still in the housing supply. These homes are vital affordable housing, but often at extreme risk to climate hazards. What can policymakers do? New from our team at Urban: urban.org/urban-wire/mobile-…
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Health humanities job in comp lit at UCLA! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0993…

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Researching digital financial practices, fintech use, or financial life on social media? @FieldsDesiree and I are organising a session on 'Platform(ed) Financial Subjectivity' at @theAAG in Detroit, March 2025. CFP below. Abstracts by October 20. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Today the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced regulations— the first of their kind— to condition federal financing on tenant protections. Effective Feb 2025, FHFA will require 30 day notice before a rent hike or lease term expirations. fhfa.gov/news/news-release/f…

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25 Jun 2024
'When temperatures reach that threshold, insurance payments are triggered.' So many possible applications for this sort of small scale heat insurance. Who's doing work in this space? nytimes.com/2024/06/25/clima…
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Anyone want to come work with me? I promise that we will plot the takedown of the fossil fuel industry, scheme up visions of an equitable energy system, and make lots of terrible power puns together... 👀💡 climateandcommunity.org/ener…

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In the colonial archives, I've seen stories of heat-related illnesses & death during the Hajj. But I've never read of anything this bad. This is a travesty wrought by climate change. Every aspect of our world-including religious practices-will be forcibly transformed by the heat.
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📍Our paper 'The Ground Rent Machine' is out in @theAAG! Using critical quant, we illustrate the uneven and racialized geog of ground rent in Baltimore (roughly 1 in 3 homes), shaping the geog of segregation and housing inequality. Grateful to @dillonm my dear friend colleague.
Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out in @theAAG, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with @JasonJurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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19 Jun 2024
I am bookmarking half my feed today! So much amazing work coming out right now on property, race, climate finance, housing, insurance, heat, other climate hazards...my fall seminar syllabus is getting a tad 📃📃📃📃📃📃📃📃
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Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out in @theAAG, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with @JasonJurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has unveiled a new manufactured home community loan product that will provide an FHA-insured financing option for the purchase, refinance, and revitalization of manufactured home communities. Read more: mhinsider.com/hud-new-mh-com…
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12 Jun 2024
We know from @CJGabbe and @gregspierce that subsidized housing is disproportionately located in the hottest census tracts. But what are conditions like inside subsidized units? How do they compare w conditions inside other housing types serving heat vulnerable people?
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12 Jun 2024
I'm working with @elis_otto and three undergraduate #HeatMappers to find out this summer. Here we are on the roof of Tucson House, the largest public housing complex in S Arizona @SW_IFL @TucsonHCD
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12 Jun 2024
Also, what an amazing view of the Oracle Test Bed @SW_IFL
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