publications

Peer-Review Journals

7 – 2025. Urban Movements within and against Racial Capitalism: Housing as a Site of Oppression and Resistance (with Akira Drake Rodriguez & Margit Mayer) Environment Planning C: Politics and Space. Vol 43(2) doi.org/10.1177/23996544251321617, here.

6 – 2024. From the Streets to the Statehouse: How tenant movements affect housing policy in Los Angeles and Berlin. Housing Studies. Vol 39(6), 1395–1421. doi 10.1080/02673037.2022.2124236, link here or here.

5 -2024. Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. Vol 56(3) 743–754 (with Desiree Fields and Emma Power), here or here.

4 – 2022. Why Abolition Now? Reflecting on 2020 with Scholar-Activists Brianna Byrd, Camilla Hawthorne, and Dylan Rodriguez. Interface: a journal for and about social movements. Vol 13 (2) (with California Economists Collective; Interview), here or here.

3 – 2017. On Resistance to Extraction. Critical Planning Journal. Vol 23. (Special Issue Introduction), here.

2 – 2011. Democratic Social Architecture or Experimentation on the Poor?: Ethnographic Snapshots." Design Philosophy Papers Vol 9.3 (2011): 217-234, here or here.

1 – 2011. Constructing “Social Architecture”: The politics of representing practice. Architectural Theory Review Vol 16.3 (2011): 228-244, (with Paul Jones), here or here.

Book Chapters

8 – 2020. Contradictions of housing commons: between middle class and anarchist models in Berlin. (eds. Derya Ozkan and Guldem Baykal) Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics, and Ethics. Routledge, here or here.

7 – 2019. Urban Commons. (eds. Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard) Urban studies inside-out: theory, method, practice. Sage, here or here.

6 – 2019. Grounding the housing question in land: On Anne Haila’s Urban land rent: Singapore as a property state. (eds. Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard) Urban studies inside-out: theory, method, practice. Sage, (with Joe Daniels and Andre Comandon), here or here.

5 – 2019. Comparing cities through quantification: on Storper et al’s The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies. (eds. Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard) Urban studies inside-out: theory, method, practice. Sage (with Joe Daniels and Andre Comandon), here.

4 – 2019. Frustrated encounters: on Ahmed Kanna’s Dubai: The city as corporation. (eds. Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric Sheppard) Urban studies inside-out: theory, method, practice. Sage, (with Nafis Hasan and Hudson Spivey), here.

3 – 2016. The Power of Play in Reshaping Public Narratives. Urban Humanities in the Borderlands: Engaged Scholarship from Mexico City to Los Angeles. 83-106, (with H Alexander, M Becerra, MT Monroe, R Hernandez, D Koba, P Mendez, and J Mundy), here.

2 – 2016. A Love Story Against Displacement. Urban Humanities in the Borderlands: Engaged Scholarship from Mexico City to Los Angeles. 161-176, (with LA Hildalgo, C Resendiz, R Hernandez, A Ko, L Monteils), here.

1 – 2015. City Political Workshop: Discussing the Political in Space. Taking Up Space, Pavement Books (with Christian Berkes and William Davis), here.

Additional Writings

12 – 2025. Making the case for good cause eviction in Maryland. (with Edward Goetz, Evan Davis, and Jeremy Schwartz) Greater Greater Washington, here.

11 – 2025. The Good Case for “Good Cause”: Do Good Cause eviction protections reduce the rate of housing production? (with Edward Goetz, Evan Davis, and Jeremy Schwartz) Research. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, here.

10 – 2024. Louisville Advances Country’s Strongest Planning Tool to Mitigate Displacement (with Andre Comandon and Loretta Lees) News. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, here.

9 – 2023. Tenants Rights Advance in California. Shelterforce, here.

8 – 2021. The (Online) Politics of Housing in the United States: Decoding Debates on ‘Housing Twitter’. Ziman Center for Real Estate. Working Papers (with Andre Comandon), here.

7 – 2019. Bernie Should Declare Housing a Human Right. Jacobin Magazine (with Jan Breidenbach), here.

6 – 2018. Thinking Across Tactics of Tenant Movements: Los Angeles and Berlin.  Progressive City, here.

5 – 2017. Multi-Ethnic Tenant Movements in Los Angeles and Berlin. American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, here.  

4 – 2017. Drifting: with a philosopher, writer, and urban planner. Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 12 - Metaflux, here or here.

3 – 2016. Black Banishment and Real Community at Skid Row. Interviews with Urban Color-Lines Activists, Institute on Inequality and Democracy (with Pete White), here.

2 – 2012. The Fetish of ‘Conscious’ Architectural Practices: Imagining everyday spaces. Horizonte: Zeitschrift für Architekturdiskurs: 112-117, here or here.

1 – 2012. Three Organizers Reflect on Dialogue. The City and the Political Papers (with Christian Berkes and William Davis), here or here.