Research
Current Projects
HOMELESS MORTALITY
Under Review: Mortal Systemic Exclusion: The Causes of Rising Mortality among People Experiencing Homelessness, 2011-20, with Giselle Routhier
Under Review: Racial Mortality Inversion: Black-White Disparities in Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness, with Jamie Chang and Katherine Saxton
Selected Media: As Storms Hammer California, Homeless Campers Try to Survive Outside (New York Times)
Column: On this flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real (Los Angeles Times)
The uncounted: People who are homeless are invisible victims of Covid-19 (STAT News)
Homeless People in the US Are Being Murdered at a Horrific Rate (Jacobin)
’Homelessness is lethal’: US deaths among those without housing are surging (The Guardian)
INFORMAL EVICTION
Report: The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Income Tenants' Housing Security in WA
Under Review: Evading the Eviction Moratorium: Changing Patterns in Landlord-Initiated Formal and Informal Evictions and Eviction Tactics During the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Rachel Fyall
Selected Media: NY landlords can’t evict while tenants wait for aid; some try other ways to clear property (NPR)
The evictions that landlords got away with during the pandemic (Slate)
Even with the eviction moratorium, landlords continued to find ways to kick renters out (The Conversation)
HOUSING POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Under Review: Irrepressible Implementation: Uncontrollable Variation in Nonprofit Implementation within a Government Experiment, with Rachel Fyall
In Progress: Rental Assistance for Whom? How Public Housing Authority Eligibility Criteria Influence Who Participates in the Housing Choice Voucher Program, with Vincent Reina and Joshua Davidson
In Progress: Claiming the Prize After Winning the Housing Lottery: How Do Housing Authorities’ Administrative Processes Affect Who Redeems a Housing Voucher?, with Vincent Reina
GUARANTEED INCOME FOR HOUSING
In Progress: Reforming the Housing Choice Voucher Program: A Randomized Experiment of Guaranteed Income for Housing, with Vincent Reina & Sara Jaffee
RACIALIZED HOMELESSNESS
Journal Article: Racialized Homelessness: A Review of Historical and Contemporary Causes of Racial Disparities in Homelessness.
In Progress: The Institutional Sources of Racial Disparities in Homelessness (in progress)
LEGAL FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS
Journal Article: Restitution without Restoration? Exploring the Gap between the Perception and Implementation of Restitution
In Progress: The Consequences of Reversing Punishment: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Amnesty for Court-Ordered Debt, with Karin Martin
In Progress: Initiation, Motivation, and Liberation: The Emotional Significance of LFO Debt Forgiveness in Reducing Criminal Legal System Involvement, with Lindsey Beach
Peer-Reviewed Publications

