Andrew Fenelon

@jeeheehan @tony_damiano @AmySchwartzNY @JPAM_DC Congrats on this! Fantastic to see this published.

Are public housing projects good for kids after all? Our new paper (with @AmySchwartzNY) @JPAM_DC says yes! We find new evidence that moving into public housing improves academic outcomes of children. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I was on the UCLA Housing Voice Podcast talking about the racial dynamics of rental assistance and why it's probably not a coincidence that rental assistance disproportionately serves black families but also has a long waiting list lewis.ucla.edu/2024/07/10/74-…

@MaryMorseMarti As someone new to the area, I see the two as really just one city. But I would never live in St. Paul :)

@a_wizards_ghost The best place to live in America, all things considered. Not an exaggeration.

Wait should I move my family to Minneapolis

@evanrobertsnz How are you so sampled?

Excited to get the Household Pulse survey, and curious about its questions. Live tweeting my responses (from the perspective of someone who teaches surveys and methods)

@Cmwitko That's certainly an overreaction. Although there's something disquieting about the recognition that we can't even reduce driving in New York City (!) without a huge political fight

@evanrobertsnz Children are to be heard, not seen?

I can think of many private reasons why play equipment in your front yard is less desirable than the back yard, but what is the *public* interest in banning play equipment in a large required front yard? library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis…

@jt_kerwin Agree with this - LE is a population-level measure that never applies to an individual. But period LE is actually the 'expected value' of the dx curve in the life table.

“Life expectancy” is one of the most confusing terms in social science. It’s competitive with “unemployment” in terms of how much the technical meaning diverges from what the term sounds like it means.

@ewrigleyfield @MetroTransitMN Totally agree! I took transit this weekend with my toddler--the 18 and D Line were good, but the crosstown buses on weekends are bad.

@Cmwitko Even that many is optimistic 😂

@Cmwitko Oh come on - don’t be so hard on yourself. 😂

@asher_rosinger Definitely Dwight privilege

@Cmwitko Rage Against the Machine Politics

@BillLindeke The causal arrow almost certainly runs in the other direction here

Not sure who is giving Target Field credit for the North Loop being economically successful, but it's not me. startribune.com/proposal-exten…

@evanrobertsnz This is a great point - the fact that we get to work car free the vast majority of the time means that taxis are more useful than a situation in which we always drove everywhere.

In an in-between situation like the Twin Cities lots of people can live without daily car use. But our land use intensity and thus transit viability degrades very quickly within a few miles of the downtowns. If you need to get to a 2nd ring suburb without a car limited options

Good deeper perspective on the Uber/Lyft situation. I would emphasize a couple of things 1) taxi service in the Twin Cities was abysmal before rideshare. Poorly regulated, and by the wrong level of government (cities). (@plattMSP makes this point well)

@ATKuperberg @UMBC @UMBCsaph @UNCG Wow congrats!

This fall I will be joining @UMBC @UMBCsaph as an Associate Professor of Sociology! I'm super excited to be joining this fantastic department, and moving only 30 min from my brother/nephew! But will miss my colleagues @UNCG and all the friends we have made in 14 yrs in Greensboro

@rwidome Winter is done!

It's been a REALLY warm non-winter, but nonetheless take my word for it when I say Minnesota do NOT look like this right now.

@evanrobertsnz Potentially related to VMT? I can only see the abstract so not sure if they account for how much you drive.

Teens having their own car early in their driving life associated with higher crash risk well into their 20s sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@evanrobertsnz @rwidome Aside from economic circumstances, presumably it’s StL’s proximity to Chicago that limits its opportunity for a hub

@rwidome @andyfenelon I am not a geographer, but the only one of those cities that’s really hard done by is St. Louis. Tampa and San Diego are in terrible positions for hubs. LAX is a big airport, but it mostly hubs to international flights (ask me how I know … thank god there are better options now)

We are so fortunate in Minneapolis to have a good airport and a good airline that has a hub here. I guess neither of those things needed to have been so.