Why does a city like Seattle see four times the rate of homelessness of a city like Cincinnati? @ColburnGregg and I argue this kind of regional variation stems from differences in housing markets. And soon you'll be able to read the study via @ucpress: ucpress.edu/book/978052038… We focus on cities, not individual people. And when you take a metropolitan lens, rents and vacancy rates arise as some of the only credible explanations for regional variation in rates of homelessness. Not poverty; not the generosity of public assistance; not drug use.

Honored and terrified that a book I've been working on for the better part of six years will actually see the light of day. THE WEIGHT OF NATURE is coming to you live via @DuttonBooks @penguinusa ...as soon as I submit a manuscript. Immense gratitude to double-trouble agents Sascha Alper and @larryweissman, Stephen Morrow and John Parsley at Dutton, and everyone else at @penguinrandom who was willing to give this project a shot.

🌏🌍🌎🔥🧠 On #WorldMentalHealthDay, I'm thinking about how climate change and environmental degradation act on our mental, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral health.

It should come as no surprise that a rapidly changing environment changes us, too. 👇👇 In the face of global climate change, there are folks out there who believe their children have no future. Some of us can't bring ourselves to have children in the first place because of this environmental chaos.

You might be one of these people. (I might be!)