Prentiss Dantzler

More housing won’t automatically mean fairer housing. In my latest piece, I argue that without addressing anti-Black racism, Canada’s housing agenda risks scaling inequality—not solving it. metropolitics.org/Build-Canada...

Among owners of homes built before 1960, those in the highest income quintile spent $12,700 on improvements and repairs in 2023, while those in the lowest income quintile spent $3,400. We're fixing the wrong houses. @sophiawedeen.bsky.social @rdcnews.bsky.social www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

Black Research Network faculty members receive 2025-26 Connaught New Researcher Awards 🎉 buff.ly/BPegUsY #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork

The White House asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign from her post as the U.S. ambassador to Greece after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off her credit card. nyti.ms/47dHAnB

Catch Postdoctoral Researcher Tessa Nápoles presenting at the session, "Beyond the Rapid Rehousing Cliff: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Pilot for Families Exiting Homelessness," at the @appam.bsky.social Fall Research Conference, Nov 5-7, Boston, MA: www.appam.org/events/2026a...

They’re Black, educated and unemployed. The Post examines how four women are navigating this increasingly common reality in the U.S. There were some remarkable takeaways:

#HearThis Sharing 3 pieces of Black specific content with my kids this week. 1. Black Women Health 2. Housing & Anti-Black Racism 3. Comics Explained I think these stories are all worth #Amplifying h/t ‪ @docdantzler.bsky.social @uhn.ca @uoftbrn.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

Metropolitics - Call for Papers - Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/04/17/m...

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Still plenty of time to submit an abstract for our special issue in @metropolitics-jrnl.bsky.social on the role of states and cities in reparations policy - open to U.S. and non-U.S. focused papers… Check out the call here… metropolitics.org/CALL-FOR-PAP...

If you woke up tomorrow and suddenly had all the powers of the Toronto mayor’s office, what would you do? #IfIweremayor series

CFP for a forthcoming special series: “Governing Repair: The Role of Cities and States in Reparations Policy,” edited by Prentiss Dantzler, Rashad Williams, and Akira Drake Rodriguez. Welcoming submissions through June 1! buff.ly/HzWD3gL @docdantzler.bsky.social @akirarodriguez.bsky.social

Thankful for the recognition! Looking forward to celebrating with friends in Chicago in just a few weeks!

As the number of people in detention climb, so have the deaths: The 33 fatalities in 2025 were the most in a single year on record since the Department of Homeland Security started operating in March 2003. Reporting w/ Allison McCann and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

Eryka Badu will be the closing night headliner at the 2026 Roots Picnic.

I just clued into the Afroman defamation lawsuit. Amazing. Absolutely amazing content. Actually, it surpasses mere content. It is art.

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 2.25 per cent

Cupich: “A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game -it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.” www.archchicago.org/en/statement...

Every lawmaker will have the opportunity to question members of Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration as well as immigration advocates about the package.

📢 The Trump administration’s efforts to rescind the EPA scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger health and welfare is moving toward a formal rollback this week. For reporters covering this, the following experts are available to comment. ⤵️ 🔗 Connect: scholars.org/features/exp...

@docdantzler.bsky.social's (@utoronto.ca) research examines how and why neighborhoods change and how communities and policymakers create and react to those changes. Connect with Dantzler: scholars.org/scholar/pren...

February 2026 marks the 100 year anniversary of Black History Month… The irony…

Our latest CRI delves into the survey of community needs & concerns conducted by the Moss Park Coalition & explores the importance of community voices when private investments drive development in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (CC Prentiss Dantzler) https://ow.ly/nFoF50XGAir

Methods without theory is madness…

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Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...

Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In Toronto, who gets evicted isn’t random—it follows the city’s racial and economic divides. Canada’s data practices hide crucial details about who is most at risk." @docdantzler.bsky.social, Khalil Martin & Abigail Meza highlight connections btwn #housing policy, inequities, evictions & data

Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social… @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftbrn.bsky.social @newhousingalt.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social @sdcookcenter.bsky.social

I know I know it's a well worn point but still. Plenty of people who would self-describe as Christians, for whom that is a very important identity, watch Fox News. I genuinely can think of very few messages as laser-targeted to be anti-Christian as "kill the homeless". Designed in a lab by Satan.

“Reframing the story expands the possibilities of collective action.” - Willow S. Lung-Aman (The Right to Suburbia, 2024)

🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda" ✍️ Özatağan et al. 🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions. 📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep

Let this year be a year of dreaming…dreaming of what’s next and what could be… Let’s us not wake up from a sleep without a story to tell others…

The U.S. is a young empire but arrogant. It basks in its riches while barely acknowledging people starving, living on the street, literally freezing today… We don’t have to live this way…

Many scholars often invoke the concept of a “slow death” to denote the many ways of everyday death dealing throws our way. But what would a “virtuous death” be? What would it mean to die admirably? I ask these questions not as a form of self harm but as an action of collective care…

I used to have imposter syndrome earlier on in my career but being anxious about time in and of itself - probably from the pandemic and the homegoing of friends and family - makes u question your actions today if tomorrow was never to come…

I think I finally have a decent book idea that allows me to do all the things I want to do. It’s an ambitious project but I’ve been fortunate to engage so many inspiring people over the last decade. Going forward, I’ll be lifting their voices up…providing space to others…

I learned how to be productive. I learned how to be an academic. And I tried and continue to try to do this the way I want to. I’m using this time to reconnect with family. In many ways, it’ll help me with my future work… I really want to explore Black liberation through the lens of housing.

Flexible from January to April. Open to ideas for relatively inexpensive places to visit. While I love what I do, I’ve given way too time to work. Tenure makes u wonder about times when u could have shared experiences with others, but instead u worked on that paper or went to that conference…

Well, since my landlord is raising the rent again, it looks like I’m about to be a “nomad” for the rest of my sabbatical this year once I finish up these last few projects by the end of November… Planning to just sit and think for a bit… Coming to a city near you? 🤔😏