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Evidence so clear it can't be dismissed. Data that demands action.
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Housing Precarity Risk Model
A Bayesian machine-learning model that screens roughly 600 tract-level variables down to the strongest predictors of renter displacement and eviction risk, including in places with no local eviction records.
Cities target prevention resources before families reach crisis.
Explore the ModelBaltimore Eviction Crisis
Neighborhood-level analysis of Baltimore eviction filings, showing which parts of the city carried the highest rates and how those patterns tracked race.
Presented in invited briefings to the Baltimore City Council (2019–2020).
Read ReportWA State Expert Testimony
Testimony before House and Senate committees revealed the legacy of redlining in contemporary eviction patterns — showing how history shapes today's displacement.
Testimony before Washington Senate and House committees (2018, 2019, 2025) that helped advance just-cause eviction protections and right-to-counsel policy.
WA State ProfileWhite House Federal Consulting
Academic advisor on eviction to the White House, HUD, and the U.S. Treasury from 2021 to 2024, spanning the federal pandemic eviction response.
Multi-year federal advisory role, alongside contributing authorship on the National Academies' report on rental eviction during COVID-19.
News CoverageClimate Change & Displacement
Extending the Housing Precarity Risk Model to climate hazard data — identifying where displacement risk and climate vulnerability collide.
A new toolkit for anti-displacement planning at the intersection of climate and housing.
Learn MoreState Eviction Profiles
Comprehensive eviction data profiles for WA, OR, MN, IN, OH, and DE — making invisible patterns visible at the state level.
State and local governments use these profiles to target resources and shape policy.
View ProfilesEmergency Rental Assistance Evaluation
HUD-funded ($671K) evaluation of Emergency Rental Assistance programs — measuring whether pandemic-era aid actually prevented evictions and for whom.
Evidence base for federal rental assistance policy going forward.
HOPE-M (NIH $2.36M)
Housing Options Providing Equity in Mental Health — a randomized controlled trial studying the health impacts of eviction prevention interventions.
Funded by NIH to generate clinical evidence linking housing stability to health outcomes.
Veteran Evictions & Health
VA-funded ($354K) study examining how eviction and housing instability affect veteran health outcomes, including pathways to homelessness.
Informing VA housing programs with evidence on the eviction-to-homelessness pipeline.
National Eviction Data Strategy
Published in Cityscape (2024) — a framework for building comprehensive national eviction data infrastructure from fragmented court records.
Laying the groundwork for a unified national eviction data system.
Gentrification & Displacement (UDP)
As Research Director of UC Berkeley's Urban Displacement Project, built the statewide Estimated Displacement Risk model for California's Department of Housing and Community Development, covering every census tract in the state.
HCD publishes the model statewide through its AFFH Data Viewer, where jurisdictions use it for housing-element fair-housing analysis.
National Academies COVID-19 Report
Contributed to the National Academies' consensus report on rental eviction during the pandemic — synthesizing evidence on eviction moratoriums and emergency aid.
Shaped federal understanding of pandemic eviction crisis and policy response.
Rooted in Marin
Built the demographic and housing-market evidence base for a countywide anti-displacement strategy commissioned by the cities, towns, and County of Marin.
Analysis of net migration, income distribution, and regional rents anchored a 111-page report evaluating 13 tenant-protection and preservation policies.
Read the reportAtlantic City Housing
Expert analysis for Atlantic City examining displacement and disparate impact in a HUD Section 18 matter.
Written expert analysis, part of CiDR's fair-housing and disparate-impact practice.
ACLU Washington Expert Analysis
Expert analysis for ACLU Washington on disparate impact in eviction, quantifying racial disparities in filing and enforcement.
Statistical evidence developed to support civil rights litigation.
Seattle Hate Crimes & Micro-Segregation
Report for the City of Seattle on neighborhood demographics, zoning, and hate crime, examining how micro-level segregation patterns relate to where hate crimes occur.
Delivered to the City of Seattle (2019).
Bay Area HPRM
Applied the Housing Precarity Risk Model to the San Francisco Bay Area — mapping eviction and displacement risk across one of the nation's most expensive housing markets.
Published in 2025 as a free, interactive public risk tool at evictionresearch.net.
King County Homelessness Systems
As former Chief Data Research Officer at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, built the analytical infrastructure connecting eviction records to shelter entry data, mapping the pathways from housing loss to homelessness.
Linked eviction and shelter data to make the housing-loss-to-homelessness pathway measurable.
Purpose. Dignity. Action. (PDA)
Consulting on research and data strategy for PDA's community-based diversion and housing programs — including LEAD, CoLEAD, and AfterCare — that replace incarceration with coordinated support.
Building the evidence base for compassion-driven alternatives to criminalization of homelessness.
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