Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

@zraresearch.bsky.social

Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry.

Always speaking for me.

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Very excited to share this new paper by my research fellow @zraresearch.bsky.social on homeownership and the racial wealth gap! Could promoting black homeownership be part of the solution? Before we even get into issues of program effectiveness or scale we need to examine assumptions about...

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Increasing Black homeownership sounds like an easy fix for the racial wealth gap. But that assumes a housing market that treats every buyer the same.

New research from @zraresearch.bsky.social breaks down three assumptions behind that idea and why they don't hold up.🧵

rooseveltinstitute.orgHomeownership Is Not a Solution to the Racial Wealth GapCan increasing Black homeownership close the racial wealth gap? Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana examines how wealth inequality, housing discrimination, predatory lending, and unequal appreciation make homeowner...
@zraresearch.bsky.social

The thing I care about a lot that academia doesn’t value is mentoring. It’s why I maintain my website practicalphd.net. It’s why I serve as a mentor annually for ABS. And it’s why I serve on professionalization panels and speak with graduate students in events like the one below. Paying it forward!

@zraresearch.bsky.social

I’ve been writing articles for a while now, but nothing has made me feel like a writer like working on my book. It’s all writing, but I get to be a writer in that one space somehow. Can’t explain it.

@zraresearch.bsky.social

I genuinely struggle with this as someone who studies and cares about low-income Black neighborhoods. Investment is necessary, but could also create a space residents can’t live in. The problem is the lack of protections for those long-term residents. I can’t support investment without protection!

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

I’m reading an academic paper that simultaneously warns of both disinvestment in low-income neighborhoods and gentrification pressures, and I’m genuinely uncertain what we’re supposed to do if disinvestment is bad but outside investment is also bad.