Alex Ramiller, Ph.D.

Alex Ramiller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto. His research uses large administrative datasets to explore the impact of housing policy and urban land use on the production of urban spatial inequality, with a particular focus on the interaction between neighborhood context and individual outcomes such as income, wealth, and debt. His prior work has featured topics including the impacts of shared-equity homeownership on wealth-building and neighborhood access, the impact of building renovation and demolition on eviction risk, and the politics of urban sustainability in Denmark. He has employed a wide array of unique datasets, including credit panel data, census microdata, housing subsidy records, consumer reference data, and eviction filings.