I am an Assistant Professor in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto.
My research uses large administrative datasets to explore the impact of housing policy and urban land use on the production of urban spatial inequality, with a particular focus on the interplay between neighborhood context and individual outcomes such as income, wealth, and debt. My prior work has featured topics including the impacts of shared-equity homeownership on wealth-building and neighborhood access, the impact of building renovation and demolition on eviction risk, and the politics of urban sustainability in Denmark. I have engaged with a wide array of unique datasets, including credit panel data, census microdata, housing subsidy records, consumer reference data, and eviction court filings.

Publications
- Gusoff, G., Ramiller, A., Acolin, A., Wang, R., & Zimmerman, F. J. (2025). Pursuing healthy homeownership: an evaluation of the neighborhood health trajectories of shared equity homeowners. BMC Public Health, 25(1).
- Ramiller, A., Acolin, A., Walter, R. J., & Wang, R. (2024). Moving to shared equity: Locational outcomes for households in shared equity homeownership programs. Housing Studies, 39(5), 1239-1263.
- Ramiller, A., Song, T., Parker, M., Chapple, K. (2024). Residential Mobility and Big Data: Assessing the Validity of Consumer Reference Datasets. Cityscape, 26(3), 227-239.
- Thomas, T., Ramiller, A., Ren, C., & Toomet, O. (2024). Toward a National Eviction Data Collection Strategy Using Natural Language Processing. Cityscape, 26(1), 241–259.
- Walter, R. J., Acolin, A., Wang, R., Hess, C., Ramiller, A., Colburn, G., Foster, T. B., Garboden, P., & Crowder, K. (2024). Exploring the association between household compositional change and mobility of subsidized householders in the United States: A life course perspective. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–23.
- Schmahmann, L., Ramiller, A., & Fields, D. (2023). Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco’s Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008–2020. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
- Walter, R. J., Tillyer, M. S., Ramiller, A., & Acolin, A. (2023). Scaling Down from the Neighborhood in Urban Planning Research and Practice: The Potential Benefits of a Micro-Scale Focus. Journal of Planning Education and Research.
- Hess, C., Walter, R. J., Kennedy, I., Acolin, A., Ramiller, A., & Crowder, K. (2023). Segmented Information, Segregated Outcomes: Housing Affordability and Neighborhood Representation on a Voucher-Focused Online Housing Platform and Three Mainstream Alternatives. Housing Policy Debate.
- Ramiller, A. (2022). Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle. Urban Studies, 59(6), 1148–1166.
- Acolin, A., Ramiller, A., Walter, R. J., Thompson, S., & Wang, R. (2021). Transitioning to Homeownership: Asset Building for Low- and Moderate-Income Households. Housing Policy Debate, 31(6), 1032–1049.
- Costa, A., Sass, V., Kennedy, I., Roy, R., Walter, R. J., Acolin, A., Crowder, K., Hess, C., Ramiller, A., & Chasins, S. (2021). Toward a Cross-Platform Framework: Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Online Rental Listings. Cityscape, 23(2), 327–340.
- Ramiller, A. (2019). Establishing the green neighbourhood: approaches to neighbourhood-scale sustainability certification in Portland, Oregon. Local Environment, 24(5), 428–441.
- Ramiller, A., & Schmidt, P. (2019). Making Radical Change Real: Danish Sustainability, Adaptability, and the Reimagination of Architectural Utopias. Utopian Studies, 30(2), 279–299.
- Ramiller, A., & Schmidt, P. (2018). Scale limits to sustainability: Transdisciplinary evidence from three Danish cases. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 27, 48-58.
- Ramiller, A. (2018). “From the Neighborhood Up!”: Neighborhood Sustainability Certification Frameworks and the New Urban Politics of Scale. Macalester College Digital Commons.
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Reports
- The RHNA Reality Check: How Bay Area Cities Say They'll Build 441,000 HomesPublic Advocates
- Fair Housing: Promises or Progress? Unpacking Bay Area Housing Element Programs through an AFFH LensPublic Advocates
- Homeownership Opportunities Beyond Single-Family: Quantifying the Current LandscapeFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Examining the Housing and Neighborhood Trajectories for Former HUD-Assisted Households with ChildrenHUD Office of Policy Development and Research
- California’s Missing Middle: Middle-Income California is Large, Diverse, and Left Out of the Housing ConversationCalifornia Community Builders
- California’s Prohousing Designation Program: Rewarding City and County Policies that Boost Housing SupplyTerner Center for Housing Innovation
- Understanding CDFI Financial Data: A Primer for New InvestorsFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Examining the Unintended Consequences of Climate Change MitigationUrban Displacement Project
- The State of Evictions: Results from the University of Washington Evictions ProjectEviction Research Network.