This invitation-only forum explores emerging research in the sociology of housing in the United States.  The content of this forum is subject of an upcoming publication co-edited by Prof. Brian McCabe (Sociology) and Prof. Eva Rosen (McCourt).

Panel 1: Housing Instability

Squatting for Survival or Homesteading for Fun? Understanding the Significance of Variation in Informal Housing Practices in the U.S. Claire Herbert, University of Oregon

Eviction Dynamics in Los Angeles Neighborhoods 

Michael Lens, University of California Los Angeles

Precarious Housing Fixes: The Limits and Shortcomings of Homeless Housing Programs in San Francisco 

Christopher Herring, University of California Berkeley

Economic Exchange and Relational Work within Doubled-up Households 

Hope Harvey, Cornell University

Private Poverty Housing: Mobile home parks and the financialization of affordable housing 

Esther Sullivan, University of Colorado Denver

Moderator: Matthew Desmond, Princeton University

Panel 2: Discrimination and the Search for Housing 

The New ‘Man in the House’ Rules: How the Regulation of Housing Vouchers turns Personal Bonds into Eviction Liabilities 

Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois Chicago

Multidimensional Discrimination in the Online Rental Housing Market: Implications for Families with Young Children 

Jacob Faber, New York University

Discrimination without Discriminants: Racial Logics in Tenant Screening 

Eva Rosen, Georgetown University; and Philip Garboden, University of Hawaii

Ready to Rent: Housing Authorities and the Creation of Market-Ready Citizens 

Brian McCabe, Georgetown University

Patterns and mechanisms of neighborhood access among housing-choice voucher recipients 

Kyle Crowder, University of Washington

Moderator: Maria Krysan, University of Illinois, Chicago

Panel 3: Housing Markets and Inequality 

Filtering Out Cabrini: Affordable Housing and the Racial Politics of Place 

John Robinson, Washington University in St. Louis

Houses Are Everything: Value Fluidity and the Case of the Housing Market 

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico

The Effect of Homicide on Local Rent 

Max Besbris, Rice University

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t: building inspections and housing inequality 

Robin Bartram, Tulane University

Real Estate Practices and Neighborhood Vulnerability: Why It’s Difficult For High Poverty Communities to Stabilize 

Christine Jang-Trettien, Johns Hopkins University; and Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Kathryn Edin, Princeton University

Panel 4: Housing Policy and the Law

Poverty in the Cul de Sac: Housing, Neighborhoods, Design, & Opportunity in the Suburbs 

Alex Murphy, University of Michigan

The Place-Based Turn in Federal Policymaking, 1990-2015 

Laura Tach, Cornell University

The Impact of Inclusionary Zoning Policies on Community Health and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Nation’s Housing Markets 

Gregory Squires, The George Washington University

Building Inequality: Housing Segregation and Residential Segregation 

Ann Owens, University of Southern California

Housing Integration in the 21st Century: Four Misconceptions, Five Reconceptions 

Monica Bell, Yale University

Moderator: Douglass Massey, Princeton University