Housing

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Erin McElroy
Assistant Professor

Latest News

Geography Graduate Student Alex Ramiller Collaborates with an Interdisciplinary Team Researching Evictions in Washington State (March 5, 2019)
Alum Profile: From Yakima to Edinburgh, UW Geography Alum Melissa Espinoza Pursues a Career Researching Housing and Homelessness (February 7, 2019)
What the bond between homeless people and their pets demonstrates about compassion (July 16, 2017)

Related Research

McElroy, Erin. “Boycotting, Identifying, and Organizing Against Serial Evictors.” E-Flux, no. Spatial Computing (June 2024).
McElroy, Erin. “The Work of Landlord Technology: The Fictions of Frictionless Property Management.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, May 8, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241232758.
McElroy, Erin. Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Thompson, S. (2023). Caring in Crises: Spatializing Infrastructures of Care Through Tenant Protections [Dissertation]. University of Washington.
McElroy, Erin. "Dis/possessory Data Politics: From Tenant Screening to Anti-Eviction Organizing.” International Journal of Urban and Region Research, 47, no. 1 (2023): 54–70.
Thompson, S. (2022).“Homes not shelters”: co-productions of home in financialized social housing for women in Vancouver, Canada. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2021.2014668.
Thompson, S. (2022). Caring Housing Futures: A Radical Care Framework for Understanding Rent Control Politics in Seattle, USA. Antipode. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12874.
McElroy, Erin, and Manon Vergerio. “Automating Gentrification: Landlord Technologies and Housing Justice Organizing in New York City Homes.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 40, no. 4 (August 1, 2022): 607–26.
McElroy, Erin. “Digital Cartographies of Displacement: Data as Property and Property as Data.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 21, no. 4 (May 5, 2022): 357–71.
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance. Oakland: PM Press, 2021.