Eviction and Housing Policy

This line of research focuses specifically on housing policy within an increasingly commodified housing market

One project builds on emerging eviction research in the United States, in which my colleague and I investigate the dynamics of the eviction courtroom during the COVID-19 pandemic through a courtroom ethnography. Given large-scale pandemic-related policy changes at the national, state, and local level, we ask how eviction procedures have evolved as a result of these policies. We argue for broader, structural level changes beyond pandemic-related solutions to address the durable inequalities of the courtroom. In another evolving project, my colleagues and I look at the impacts of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), and the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) on how survivors of domestic violence receive housing. More specifically, we investigate how evolving privacy standards and increased decentralization of housing provision may work for or against domestic violence survivors as they try to access housing.