Alex Ramiller

Job title: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Alumni
Univeristy of Toronto
Bio/CV: 

Advisor: Caroline Reid

PhD, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 2025

MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2020

University of Toronto - Present

  • Assistant Professor, Geography and Planning

Alex is a Doctoral Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley, and a Graduate Student Researcher at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. His work focuses on urban policy and big data, with a particular focus on residential mobility, housing tenure, and neighborhood change. Alex's research has been published in journals including Housing Studies, Urban Studies, and Urban Environment.

Alex also consult on a range of data analysis projects related to housing policy. Previous projects include the development of national pandemic rent debt estimates for PolicyLink and the creation of a displacement monitoring dashboard for the City of Seattle.

Research interests: 
  • Housing markets and housing policy
  • Property ownership
  • Residential mobility, neighborhood change, and urban form 

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