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Pleased to share our paper published today in Hypertension. Using data from the Jackson Heart Study and a computer simulation, we found maintaining normal BP over the lifecourse could add up to 4.5 years of life and 6 years of healthy life.
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NEW #Article: Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning by Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, @MagdaMaaoui & @SophiaWedeen buff.ly/3CS8TIm #Rent #housing #segregation #UrbanEquality
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AFTER THE LA FIRES: RENT-GOUGING IN THE WAKE OF DISASTER Read the report: rentbrigade.org/report
THE REPORT: RENT GOUGING IN THE WAKE OF DISASTER We looked at every Zillow listing in LA County from January 7 to the 18th. Here's what we found.

ALT THE REPORT: RENT GOUGING IN THE WAKE OF DISASTER We looked at every Zillow listing in LA County from January 7 to the 18th. Here's what we found.

Landlords and agents are illegally overcharging renters by $7.7 million per month.

ALT Landlords and agents are illegally overcharging renters by $7.7 million per month.

On average, 120 new rent-gouged listings were identified per day between January 7 and January 18.

ALT On average, 120 new rent-gouged listings were identified per day between January 7 and January 18.

People's City Council - Los Angeles@PplsCityCouncil28 Jan 2025
LOOTING IN LOS ANGELES 'The Rent Brigade' found from Jan 7-18, a total of 1,343 listings on Zillow appear to have violated the state’s price gouging ban. Those listings appear to have collectively sought to overcharge tenants $92 mil/year. @LATenantsUnion laist.com/news/housing-homel…

How widespread is post-fire rent gouging? These volunteer sleuths analyzed the data

Here’s what “The Rent Brigade” found after combing through 1,343 Zillow posts that appear to have broken California’s ban on post-fire price gouging.

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Collectively, these listings appear to have sought to illegally overcharge tenants by $92.4 million / year. Likely rent gouging wasn't limited to mansions in the hills. Many listings were in Koreatown and South L.A. Get more details in the full story: laist.com/news/housing-homel…

How widespread is post-fire rent gouging? These volunteer sleuths analyzed the data

Here’s what “The Rent Brigade” found after combing through 1,343 Zillow posts that appear to have broken California’s ban on post-fire price gouging.

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Homes in L.A. were still smoldering when Zillow rents started to spike. Volunteer rent gouging sleuths quickly started tracking the data. They found 1,343 listings that appear to have broken the law. My @LAist story is the first to report on their findings.
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A furnished Bel Air home went on Zillow today for $29,500 / month. A few months ago, it was asking $15,900. I called up the agent. She said she told her client to re-list the home after this week's L.A. fires. "People are desperate," she said. "You can probably get good money."
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Landlords are raising rental listing prices by more than 50% to profit from the fires. Penal Code 396 prohibits price-gouging during a state of emergency. @bad_tenant has started a doc of the listings: bit.ly/price-gouging-vulture… Contributions welcome!

Tracking Rental Price Gouging in LA

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🚨 New in @JAMANetworkOpen, co-led by myself and @TrishaSantosMD, examining #AsianAmerican representation in medicine! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… 🧵 1/9 While the group is often seen as overrepresented, our disaggregated analysis reveals stark disparities for Southeast Asians.

Asian American Representation in Medicine by Career Stage and Residency Specialty

This cross-sectional study assesses representation by Asian race and disaggregated subgroups in the US allopathic medical school workforce using data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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🧵Across the country, housing was on the ballot in this election: @NLIHC's @ourhomesvotes campaign tracked 100+ housing & homelessness ballot measures! Let's celebrate these victories for housing justice, and congratulate the organizers who made them possible.
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The implementation of right-to-counsel for low-income tenants in New York, New York, was associated with a 0.96–percentage point reduction in adverse birth outcomes among infants born to Medicaid-insured parents. ja.ma/3AdKoUR
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Thrilled to share our new study published at @socscimed exploring welfare stigma and food insecurity among SNAP participants: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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JUST IN: #RightToCounsel for evictions could prevent 600 preterm & adverse birth outcomes yearly—in NY alone.
A screenshot of a research article from JAMA Pediatrics titled "Tenant Right-to-Counsel and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York, New York." The article is authored by Kathryn M. Leifheit, PhD, MSPH, Katherine L. Chen, MD, PhD, Nathaniel W. Anderson, PhD, and others. It is published online on October 28, 2024

ALT A screenshot of a research article from JAMA Pediatrics titled "Tenant Right-to-Counsel and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York, New York." The article is authored by Kathryn M. Leifheit, PhD, MSPH, Katherine L. Chen, MD, PhD, Nathaniel W. Anderson, PhD, and others. It is published online on October 28, 2024

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The recent immigration surge doesn't align with the high growth in rents and home prices but immigrants do help expand the supply of much-needed US homes: immigrants accounted for 34% of those who worked in construction trades in 2023, says @riordanfrost. jchs.harvard.edu/blog/role-r…

The Role of the Recent Immigrant Surge in Housing Costs

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Honored to be a small part on of this team—findings out today demonstrate that population level legal assistance in housing court is associated with fewer negative birth outcomes. Staying in your home = healthier baby. Makes sense to this pregnant mama to be 🤰🏻
Kate@LeifScience28 Oct 2024
Out today in @JAMAPediatrics: We find that implementation of New York City's Right-to-Counsel Program was associated with a significant reduction in adverse birth outcomes (preterm birth, low birthweight) among Medicaid-insured birthing parents. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Tenant Right-to-Counsel and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York, New York

This cohort study examines the associations of zip code–level right-to-counsel access with risk of adverse birth outcomes, including preterm birth and low birth weight, among infants born to Medica...

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A new study led by UCLA researchers has found that the implementation of right-to-counsel for low-income tenants in New York City significantly reduced the risk of adverse birth outcomes. @leifscience @dgsomucla uclahealth.org/news/release/…

New UCLA study links right-to-counsel programs to better birth outcomes

New York City’s right-to-counsel program, which offers free legal representation to low-income tenants facing eviction, significantly reduced the risk of adverse birth outcomes among infants born to...

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The research makes clear that the consequences of a disaster are enduring & often affect renters, who are at a high risk of housing instability for years. housingmatters.urban.org/res…
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Thirty-eight percent of people experiencing homelessness experienced sexual or physical assault violence during their current episode of homelessness, compared with 1% of the US population annually. ja.ma/3YoF4qQ @AnitaHargraveMD @cheyennemgarcia @MKushel
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When we think about health, we may not be thinking about taxes. @JRookMD and I share existing evidence around the expanded child tax credit and health outcomes, and advocate for a more generous, equitable child tax credit @JAMAPeds @NCSP_UCLA @NationalCSP jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

The Child Tax Credit—Tax Policy as Health Policy

This Viewpoint advocates for a more expansive child tax credit by exploring existing research on the credit and health outcomes.

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‼️Our new paper out today shows that infants that graduate from the NICU with social needs (food, housing and transportation insecurity) have ⬆️missed scheduled visits and have ⬆️ rates of hospitalization @RachGreenbergMD : nature.com/articles/s41372-0…

Social needs and healthcare utilization in NICU graduates

Journal of Perinatology - Social needs and healthcare utilization in NICU graduates

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Congratulations to HPM Professor Craig Pollack (@cepollack) for being awarded the @HousPolDebate Journal's 2024 Paper of the Year Award! Read Housing Policy Debate's interview with Craig Pollack to learn more about his award-winning paper: housingpolicyblog.org/paper-…
Housing Policy Debate@HousPolDebate27 Aug 2024
“Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on Healthcare Use by Specific Clinical Conditions and Type of Service”, HPD’s 2024 Paper of the Year! (2/4) doi.org/10.1080/10511482.202…

Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on...

We performed a secondary analysis of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) social experiment to investigate the impact of different types of housing assistance and neighborhood environments on long-term ...

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