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. “Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present.” In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, 79–94. Duke University Press, 2025.
McElroy, Erin. “Oraşul Viitorului: Beyond the Sliconisation of Postsocialist Cluj.” In Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West, edited by Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, and Michal Murawski, 113–20. FRINGE. UCL Press, 2025. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo257337112.html.
McElroy, Erin, Matthew Martignoni, Jeantelle Laberinto, Priya Prabhakar, and Joseph Smooke. “Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco.” In Dispatches from the Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis, edited by Rae Baker and Alexander Ferrer, 95–107. Fernwood Publishing, 2025.
McElroy, Erin. “Human Capital and Digital Citizenship: Postsocialism’s Urban Dispossessions.” In Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence, edited by Alexandrescu, Filip, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica. Routledge, 2025.
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 42, no. 4 (August 1, 2024): 456–75. 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.