Political Scientist at SF State University (Race, Voting & Elections, Urban Politics).
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
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This is why I am a YIMBY. The only way to reduce racial segregation is to massively increase housing of all types in cities like SF. I don’t care why you oppose a particular housing project. Neighborhood character is not more important than segregation.
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Because we have HAV & APV @ the state x demo level, we're able to compare them v. granularly. On how much groups have shifted since '20, they agree on non-white voters but less so on white voters. Incredible resource to have at your fingertips (& loaded into yr fav LLM's context)
Comparing '20 & '24 data from APV/@Catalist_US/@Nate_Cohn (hereafter HAV -- How Americans Voted) it looks like they all agree for the most part, but on average HAV looks more like APV than Catalist.
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No it was the NIMBYs who displaced minorites and the knew it would happen and that was the point, because thats always what exclusionary zoning has been about.
1978 San Francisco down zoning EIR
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"The Trump Administration’s efforts to cull the electorate before the midterms have, by and large, failed."
My first piece in the New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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HUGE new Ct. of Appeal decision holds that CA homeowners whose ADU application was denied may sue city for damages.
The logic sweeps broadly, probably reaching all housing projects subject to ministerial approval under state law -- and perhaps even more.
🧵/23
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Stony Brook University is hiring multiple tenure-track Assistant/Associate Prof in AI & Society, welcoming scholars from public policy, political science, ethics, sociology, computer science, and related fields
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Compared to 2024, pollsters show movement toward Democrats concentrated among young, independent, Hispanic, and male voters.
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73% of your campaign donations go to consultants and vendors; only 13% goes toward ads. This is 4x the cut consultants made 20 years ago. Important work by @JakeMGrumbach and Adam Bonica on the capture of the Democratic Party by consultants.
newrepublic.com/article/2163…
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There’s an art—and a science—to helping good ideas spread between cities.
Here’s a deep dive into 3 housing breakthroughs, and how we’re helping 30 more cities adapt them to build more homes, faster.
Great piece by @jaredbrey in @GOVERNING:
governing.com/in-the-weeds/c…
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The Cook Political Report is hiring! This is a fantastic opportunity for an early-career election analyst: cookpolitical.zohorecruit.co…
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I talk to Caleb Nelson about his criticisms of Slaughter in his article the “Dictatorial Presidency.” "So my criticism is partly about timing. Even if you think there’s a stronger case for unitary executive theory than I do, this is an extraordinarily dangerous time, I think, for the Supreme Court to upend precedent and to move in that direction. And my criticism is also about history. Chief Justice Roberts keeps repeating claims about the First Congress that I’m pretty sure aren’t true and that scholars have, I think, debunked."
execfunctions.org/p/1b6b1348…
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Some thoughts from others on AI and quantitative social science that seemed worth sharing:
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NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Disneyland politics: How a medium-size city and corporate giant coexist, by Peter F. Burns, Matthew O. Thomas, and Max R. Bieganski. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @tandfhss @UAAnews
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October’s JOP Article of the Month asks whether rent control—beyond its impact on the housing market—has repercussions for tenant NIMBYism. #JOP #RentControl #NIMBYism #Policies journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Great work from @christiangrose & the USC polling team here with some fun (LLM-coded) open-ends on both Wiener + Chan in the CA-11 race (pulled from the poll release below. Wiener seen more broadly positively than Chan, esp. because of his record of accomplishments in Sacramento
EXCLUSIVE: New poll shows Connie Chan trailing Scott Wiener in San Francisco congressional race, despite Nancy Pelosi’s backing
sfstandard.com/2026/10/22/po… @sfstandard
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NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Selective conviviality: Platforms, gentrification, and nightlife governance in Paris. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @tandfhss @UAAnews
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EXCLUSIVE: New poll shows Connie Chan trailing Scott Wiener in San Francisco congressional race, despite Nancy Pelosi’s backing
sfstandard.com/2026/10/22/po… @sfstandard
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Now published at @apsrjournal. Check out "The Symbolic Politics of Housing" doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261…
New results!
In "The Symbolic Politics of Housing," @dbroockman @j_kalla & I showed that public opinion about housing policies correlates w/ affect towards the groups that the policies make salient (via framing or criteria in the policy itself).
🧵/19
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The soft power of mayors is underrated, historian and ex-mayor Bill Fulton explains on "In Search of a City: The LA Housing Podcast."
Full episode: buff.ly/kJYNhl4