Public Writing
My public writing has focused on writing about complicated affordable housing issues for a broader public. To introduce Washingtonians to key affordable housing concepts, I wrote a series of posts on Greater, Greater Washington to explain many key issues in affordable housing, including rent control, the Area Median Income, public housing, the Housing Choice Voucher program and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.
I occasionally write about my research for a public audience, too. Dr. Jen Heerwig & I published two OpEds in Sludge on campaign finance reforms and the Seattle Democracy Voucher program. After the release of our eviction report, Dr. Eva Rosen and I published an OpEd in the Washington Post.
Academic Writing
My research on housing, historic preservation and gentrification has been published widely in a range of academic journals, including Social Forces, City & Community, the Journal of the Urban Planning Association and the Journal of Urban Economics.
My first book, No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership, has been reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Housing, Theory & Society, the Journal of the American Planning Association and Contemporary Sociology. I have spoken about the book on several public programs, including NPR's Here and Now and the Strong Opinion, Loosely Held podcast.
I have written several book reviews, including reviews Housing, Wealth and Welfare (in Housing Studies), The Death and Life of the Single-Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City (in Contemporary Sociology) and Home: International Perspectives on Culture, Identify and Belonging (in City & Community).
Eva Rosen (McCourt School of Public Policy) and I are currently editing a volume on the Sociology of Housing (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) following an exciting conference on the topic in October 2019.
Student Collaboration
I regularly mentor students and collaborate on research projects. Currently, I am writing a paper with three undergraduates on murals and public art in gentrifying neighborhoods. Another collaborative project with a student asks who funds municipal elections in Washington, DC. Georgetown students played an outsized role in our research on evictions in the city.