Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social PhD student doing urban econ and industrial organization at Duke. Former highest paid cashier in the Midwest; former RA at Eviction Lab; Macalester College. Not a real bus driver
Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social Sidewalk enthusiast and adopted Midwesterner (formerly Twin Cities, Chicago). I write and research about housing and cities. PhD student at UW-Madison.
https://pencillingout.substack.com/
https://zakyudhishthu.github.io/
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social tenant and climate research and such with @cplusc.bsky.social
Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social Witch. Strategist. Political scientist. Former union organizer. Current academic. I write fiction, poetry, and political commentary. Dog content as a bonus.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Karl's Girlfriend @nomoreevictions.bsky.social Dog mom. Rock Climber. Legal Aid Lawyer. Making landlords cry since 2018.
Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com I make music and podcasts. Host of Strong Songs 🎶, Triple Click 👾, and Definitely Fiction 📚
strongsongspodcast.com
tripleclickpodcast.com
definitelyfiction.com
KirksNotes.com
Profile pic: Kevin Jardin
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
Kate Howell @drkatehowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof; Director @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social; posting about cities, housing, public spaces...and all the other stuff I'm excited about.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social Independent journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
mollie bryant @molliebryant.bsky.social I cover housing & criminal justice for nonprofit news site StreetlightNews.org in OKC. Previously: Oklahoma Watch, JXN Clarion Ledger & Amarillo Globe News. bryant@streetlightnews.org and molliebryant.70 on signal
New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of New York Attorney General Letitia James' Office
Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social Home of USA Disappeared Tracker (https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map) and ICE Flights Tracker. To submit a person anonymously: https://tips.hushline.app/to/DisappearedTracker
Rae Baker @cityisthelimit.bsky.social Assistant professor, critical urban geographer, housing justice, anti-racism and decoloniality, critical criminalization and AI policy and surveillance studies.
AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social Law prof, mom of 4, & very concerned citizen.
My scholarship centers on housing, consumer finance, and property law.
Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social Covering housing, development, climate, etc. for @thecityreporter.nyc
Question or story idea? smaldonado@thecityreporter.nyc | @smaldo.11 on Signal
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Tommy Bobo @iamtommybobo.bsky.social I make art with actual smoke and mirrors.
Abdullahi Halakhe @qulshtm.bsky.social #MshambaMtaani Forever Mazrui, Mamdani, and Wenger and Wengerite. An eternal Sakunian Shifta at heart.
Eric Katz @ericjkatzny.bsky.social New Yorker. Policy enthusiast. Purveyor of dad jokes. Speaking for no one but me. @ ericjkatz on the Bird one.
The NYS Tenant Bloc @tenantbloc.bsky.social Tenants are half the state. We keep New York running. If we unite, we can win beautiful, safe, affordable homes for all. Sister org to Housing Justice for All.
VOCAL-NY (Voices of Community Activists and Leaders) @vocal-ny.bsky.social G'roots organizing for healthy & just communities. HIV, drug policy, incarceration & homelessness.
Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
Citizens Housing and Planning Council @chpcny.bsky.social Nonprofit research and education organization focused on innovative policy for NYC’s housing and neighborhoods. Since 1937. https://chpcny.org
Joanna Laine @jlaine.bsky.social
Jason Wu 🍉🍊🍓 @criticalrace.bsky.social 🍉🍊🍓 📝 @truthout.org + Teen Vogue
etc
Based out of NYC, all views my own
Peter F. Martin @peterfmartin.bsky.social Legal/political/etc. Organizing w/ @nycdsa.bsky.social.
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Peter Senzamici @psenza.bsky.social Manhattan Civil Courts reporter @nypost // Litigious? Get in touch psenzamici@nypost.com // Past work with Daily News, THE CITY, Patch & more!
H. Jacob Carlson @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Kean University, Social Housing Development Authority, "Housing is a Social Good" (2026)-@UChicagoPress
https://www.hjacobcarlson.com/
Ryan Hickey @ryanryan-hi.bsky.social Bakes things. Wants more social housing. Tweets and opinions my own. RTs ≠ endorsements.
Kelly Doran, MD, MHS @kellymdoran.bsky.social Emergency physician & researcher. Health x Housing Lab Co-Director. Tweets my own / not my employer’s. RT ≠ endorse.
Jotwell @jotwell.bsky.social The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). Homepage at https://jotwell.com
Anna Bailey (she/her) @annakbailey.bsky.social Homelessness, housing, and health policy at CBPP. MSW/JD. Kansan. Thoughts/posts are my own.
Nick Peters @nickgpeters.bsky.social Always tired. Communications Associate at United Neighborhood Houses.
Alex Hemingway @1alexhemingway.bsky.social Senior Economist @bcpolicy.bsky.social. PhD @UBCPoliSci. Former CCPA-BC. Social, economic & environmental justice. Views are my own. https://bcpolicy.ca/
Kasey Zapatka @kaseyzapatka.bsky.social Postdoc at @UCBerkeley and @UCBDisplacement. Sociologist, urbanist, quant researcher, and housing affordability enthusiast. PhD from @cunygcsociology.
houston climate houser @zoyamiddleton.bsky.social At home in the 🌏 and Houston.
Associate Policy Director for Just Climate Resilience @ucsusa.bsky.social
Friend and board member @weststreetrecovery
Posts/likes are mine alone.
Dave Pringle @davepringus.bsky.social @prrac.bsky.social Alum | @popdemoc.bsky.social Alum | Miami Law | Florida State | He/Him | 🇯🇲🖖🏾🎸🏀🔥🐬⚽️ #YNWA
Sarah Gelbard, PhD (she/her) @sbg-arch.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy Punk planner & Anarchitect | postdoc @ University of Ottawa in housing justice and criminalization | radical and feminist community planning | vox & bass for […]
[bridged from https://urbanists.social/@sbg_arch on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Autonomous Tenants Union Network @tenantpower.bsky.social https://atun-rsia.org/
Stuart Campbell @stu-tx.bsky.social be kind and help others. former union steward. housing law & eviction defense. chief legal officer at Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center
Dani Aiello @aiellodani.bsky.social penn state geography
Leilani Farha @leilanifarha.bsky.social Global Director, The Shift
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing
Co-Host PUSHBACK Talks
International law; human rights; housing; cities; finance
Claudia Aiken @claudiaaiken.bsky.social Housing nerd, classical music lover, mom to the best toddler ever. I'm based at the Housing Solutions Lab at the NYU Furman Center. All opinions my own!
Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social Y23, He/Him | Someone once said I’m naturally anti-dogmatic. Housing is a human right. Currently @thenation.com. Previously @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social and more!
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
zac hale @zachale.bsky.social housing lawyer property skeptic
Fran Quigley @franquigley.bsky.social Podcast and Newsletter: We Can Do Better—Ending Poverty in our Time, https://endpovertynow.substack.com Director, Housing, Health & Human Rights Clinic, Indiana U. McKinney School of Law
Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social Tenant rights, social movements, organizing against authoritarianism.
Assistant Professor @sjsu
https://www.kentoncard.com/
Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
Follow us on other platforms ➡️ https://protdem.org/m/stay-connected
Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer.bsky.social KC Tenants
Tenant Union Federation
rebekah @rebeks.bsky.social housing policy / she/her / pdx / communist / murp student housingauthority.substack.com ~ #orleg
Karen Benjamin @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social Historian at Elmhurst U, UW Madison + UT Austin alum
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal available July 2025 from UNC Press
Sewer Socialism @sewersocialism.bsky.social Whose streets? OUR STREETS!
Like they're literally our streets with our infrastructure.
PhD in Urban Socialism Studies from THE Ohio State University
Maria Amor @mariaamor.bsky.social
@i-m-cassandra.bsky.social @i-m-cassandra.bsky.social
Jonathan Kealing @jkealing.bsky.social journalist, avgeek, dad, traveler, nonprofit executive
David F Brand @davidfbrand.bsky.social I’m a reporter covering housing for @wnyc.org and @gothamist.com | In a previous career, I was a licensed social worker
Arielle Hersh @fucklawns.bsky.social ✨ in it for the social housing ✨ uhab | hunter policy | BK
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
Colin Lorne @colinlorne.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography & Director of OpenSpace Research Centre at the Open University | Usually talking crises and conjunctures | Jazz, soul, rocksteady | All views my own, etc.
Miguel A. Martínez @miguel-martinez.bsky.social Sociologist. On cities, housing and struggles for social justice. From Spain, based in Sweden (Uppsala Univ.). Author of "Squatters in the Capitalist City" (Routledge) and editor of "Research Handbook on Urban Sociology" (EE). www.miguelangelmartinez.net
Jennie Gustafsson @jiegson.bsky.social Bostadsforskare.
Human geographer researching on rental housing, regulation and financialization. Book review ed @housingtheory.bsky.social. Dept. of Urban studies & @iurmalmo.bsky.social, MAU.
https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=x-t1hugAAAAJ&hl=sv
Craig Gurney @craiggurney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer #HousingStudies @UofGlasgow.bsky.social Researching & teaching #Housing #home #Sotl #socialharm #Housing&Health TedX Speaker, Vice-chair Housing Studies Association; Board Member CIH Scotland; Groundhopper; Swindon Town supporter. Own views
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social Studying racially uneven sub/urban development with GIS, maps, #rstats, #rspatial
https://scottnmarkley.github.io
Abigail Friendly @abigailfriendly.bsky.social Assistant Professor of planning at Utrecht University. Urban policy, cities, housing, politics, Brazil, Canada.
Martin Grander @martingrander.bsky.social Associate professor in Urban Studies. Housing, welfare, urbanism, segregation, inequalities and more.
Latest book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Housing-and-Welfare/Grander-Stephens/p/book/9781032074337#
Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Madalina Mezaros @madalinamez.bsky.social PhD Candidate (FNR-AFR) at LISER & University of Luxembourg | Researching housing - gentrification, displacement, fiscal policies - & social change in Luxembourg
@mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social Housing, political economy, UCD Lecturer. Subscribe to my The Week in Housing newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/38ye4knn
Director of Equality Studies M.Sc. https://tinyurl.com/2jtw6cvu
Don't have social media on phone so not on here much!
Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography, University of Manchester. Into fighting urban injustice, researching energy/climate inequalities & network governance
Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social Economic Geographer @ Newcastle University (UK) researching feminist finance, everyday (digital) economies, financial inclusion, housing 'love letters' & the politics of knowledge production // northeast (US) to North East (UK)
danielle jane kerrigan @djanekerrigan.bsky.social Housing researcher and McGill Urban Planning PhD graduate.
Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social Sociologist interested in wealth inequality, housing, and class analysis. Heidelberg University & London School of Economics https://waitkus.github.io/
Ida Borg @idaborg.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro Uni and researcher, Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. Research on housing, welfare and poverty.
https://www.su.se/english/profiles/idbo6363-1.192694
Sebastian Kohl @sebastiankohl.bsky.social Professor in social sciences @FU_Berlin | @MPIfG_Cologne alumnus | Housing | Finance | Insurance @sebastiankohl@econtwitter.net
Sander van Lanen @sanvanlan.bsky.social cultural geography; urban poverty & inequality.
🎓 university of groningen; young academy groningen, faculty of spatial sciences
✒️ austerity, youth, neighbourhoods
🔎 urban inequality, social infrastructure, exclusion.
Antoine Peris @aftp.bsky.social Quantitative human geographer working on cities, housing and landlords with spatial analysis methods.
📍Marseille & Avignon
Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social Social scientist. Housing, inequality, political economy. Associate Editor International Journal of Housing Policy. Assistant Professor Dep. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Own views.
Dolly Loomans @dollyloo.bsky.social PhD candidate - researching housing & migration in the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Dutch Environmental Assesment Agency (PBL)
Willem Boterman @willemboterman.bsky.social Associate professor @UvA
ERC-consolidator PROTEINSCAPES:
political geographies of meat & dairy
Human Geography
Political Science
Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social Urban geographer (University of Amsterdam) | Housing | Author (Das Mag) | Co-director Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) | Editor International Journal of Housing Policy, Beleid & Maatschappij | All links:
https://linktr.ee/codyhochstenbach
Dan Ordorica @sagittariusx.bsky.social Litigation attorney - representing tenants, workers, and consumers seeking justice in Western Massachusetts.
Stephen Przybylinski @sprzybylinski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Urban-political geographer working on homelessness, property, citizenship and justice. Author of The Injustice of Property on UGA Press: https://tinyurl.com/mtx8reap
Eric Seymour @ericseymour.bsky.social Studying housing from Central NJ
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus |
Environmental and Urban Change | York University
Cities | Football | Music
Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Podcast on Urban Theory, Research & Activism
Based at Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies, Berlin
@humboldtuni.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
Access our podcasts and further information on our website (or on Spotify)
https://urbanpolitical.online
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social Planning Prof at the University of Waterloo studying housing, displacement, transportation & how they are related. Also cycling, curling, baseball & photography
I was born in Toronto, now live in Kitchener & have lived in Scotland & the Netherlands
he/him
Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond @eloralee.bsky.social Housing, finance, land. Views are my own. 🇼🇸🇦🇸 she / her / ia