I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & 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 interaction 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 employed a wide array of unique datasets, including credit panel data, census microdata, housing subsidy records, consumer reference data, and eviction filings.

My work has been published in journals including Urban Studies, Housing Studies, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Planning Education and Research, and Cityscape. I have also consulted on numerous projects at the intersection of data science and housing policy analysis for organizations including the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, PolicyLink, and the City of Seattle.

Publications

Reports

Dashboards

    Rent Debt in America

    This dashboard and accompanying analysis use experimental Census survey data to measure the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on household rent debt. Rent debt estimates are provided for states, counties, and cities throughout the United States. This dashboard was created for PolicyLink as part of the National Equity Atlas.

    Tracking California's Rent Relief

    This dashboard and accompanying anslysis use administrative data from the California Covid-19 Rent Relief Program to track the status of rent relief applications. This project was created for PolicyLink as part of the National Equity Atlas.

    Housing Precarity Risk Model

    The Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM) provided a national analysis of housing precarity, identifying vulnerable neighborhoods that were in particularly urgent need of assistance and resources from local, state, and federal agencies, particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The project was created for the Urban Displacement Project.

    Seattle Displacement Risk Indicators

    This dashboard brings together demographic and market data to construct dynamic indicators of displacement risk across Seattle neighborhoods. The dashboard was constructed for the City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development's Equitable Development Monitoring Program.