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…

Does FEMA need the #staffordact amended to respond to #extremeheat? Great coverage by NPR’s alejandra borunda Why doesn't FEMA consider extreme heat a disaster? npr.org/2024/06/18/nx-…

Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out in American Association of Geographers, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with Jason Jurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 📃📃📃📃📃📃📃📃

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.

📍Our paper 'The Ground Rent Machine' is out in American Association of Geographers! 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 Dillon Mahmoudi my dear friend + colleague.

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/energy-industr…

California could generate 13 GW and save 63 billion gallons of water if it covered all its canals; that's enough water for 2 million people & 50 thousand irrigated acres.

'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/cli…

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-rele…

This Perspective article by Vanessa Huxter discusses how ultrafast spectroscopy can be used to answer fundamental questions about the mechanisms of organic photoredox spectroscopy Read here ➡ go.acs.org/ayC

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 American Association of Geographers in Detroit, March 2025. CFP below. Abstracts by October 20. docs.google.com/document/d/1E1…

Health humanities job in comp lit at UCLA! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09937

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/mob…

Please join us next week for our early career keynote lecture featuring Devika Narayan and Jamie Peck Wednesday 3/26, 10.10AM - 11.30AM EST

Pls share: Faculty Position at UBC Geography: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportunit… Closing date for applications, July 21.

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