It's official: SF is the first in the nation to ban automated rent-fixing software. 70% of multifamily corporate landlords in SF use revenue management software technology - and now they can't use algorithms to help them price-fix and rent-gouge. kron4.com/news/bay-area/…

Somewhere there’s a NYT style guide instructing reporters to pretend that anti-genocide, pro-Palestine Jews don’t exist.

LEARNING FROM INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENTS FOR LAND AND HOUSING JUSTICE Join CATU for an exciting training event with two important international campaigns fighting for land and housing justice on Sunday 01/09, 12-4pm. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… More details in the thread!

First we’re lucky to have Erin McElroy Erin McElroy talking about the work they have done with the Anti Eviction Mapping Project Anti-Eviction Mapping Project in San Francisco. The AEMP is “a data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective... /2

Crucial work by Esra'a and team. Go to surveillancewatch.io for an interactive map of the surveillance companies. You can search by company, country or funding sources. Hint: How many are from "AI" companies in good ol Silicon Valley? x.com/DAIRInstitute/…

My department is hiring! We’re looking for a geographer working on displacement and migration, w/ a focus on environmental, political, and economic drivers. Also countermapping/data justice methods a plus. I’m on the hiring committee if you have questions! apply.interfolio.com/152204

A gruesome tidbit: RealPage, the disgraced rent-setting software company that is now under investigation by the DOJ for colluding to artificially inflate rents, contributed $500k to defeat the CA rent control measures. housingisahumanright.org/realpage-shell…

The Atlas of Finance is published and alive! The outcome of a two-year project to trace finance across space and time, which culminates with state-of-the art visuals and maps that will change how you view money and the world!

two great jobs in the best city in the united states, in the department of urban & environmental studies. I loved my time here (especially my brilliant kind colleagues) and am happy to answer any questions about LMU or LA. APPLY! higheredjobs.com/institution/de…

Sixty years after the Democratic Party refused to seat the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at its convention, the Democratic Party has refused to even hear a vetted speech from a Palestinian at its convention. In both cases, party leaders are complicit with brutal violence

New: The lawsuit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to boost prices -- and profits. propub.li/4710X2e

A number of our members are going to present at the #RGSIBG24 conference in London this week! We compiled a list of the sessions we are involved in, which include Erin McElroy, Dr. Syeda Jenifa Zahan, Saanchi and michele lancione beyondinhabitation.org/beyond-inhabit…

Busy week #London Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) #RGSIBG24 Thursday 29th 11:10am we discuss Colin McFarlane beautiful 'Waste & the City' Verso Books Friday 30th 9am I present ERC work #Naples | 2:40pm launch "For a Lib Pol of Home" Duke University Press | 4:50pm discuss Erin McElroy "Silicon Valley

This makes me so happy to see. We’ll be discussing each other’s books on Friday too for those around at the RGS!

What the fucking hell is this?

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old who appears to have been shot and killed by the IDF, recently graduated from University of Washington

Seattle community members are grieving the loss of Aysenur “Aysha” Izgy , a recent University of Washington Seattle graduate who volunteered in the occupied West Bank with an organization that advocates against illegal seizures of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers.

This is Ayşenur’s last post on Instagram, in which she wrote “Long live international solidarity.” It really shows her deep commitment to collective liberation for all

Ayşenur was an organizer at the University of Washington Gaza encampment + graduated this year , carrying a Palestine flag "She had this deep conviction that she wanted to participate in the tradition of bearing witness to the oppression of people and their dignified resilience"