Fields of Interest
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. I am also a faculty affiliate of the eScience Institute, and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.
My research is broadly concerned with the dynamics of housing systems in the United States: how does landownership, housing investment, and property usage evolve over time, and what are the consequences of these dynamics for housing affordability, urban inequality, and the social reproduction of cities?
In my research, I link administrative data and develop novel computational tools to longitudinally map the shifting landscape of landownership in the United States, and propose novel frameworks for understanding contemporary processes unfolding within U.S. housing systems.
My current projects explore: the decline of sole proprietorship in rental landlording and the rising opacity of rental ownership; methods to identify landlords when rental owners use complex shell-holding structures to acquire properties; the relationship between market rate housing development and rental pricing in nearby low-income housing; mapping emerging housing movements across the United States; and the impact of tenant and community activism on how landlords use property.