Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Economic Geography
- GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
- Policy & Planning
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Spatial Inequality, Housing Policy, Access to Opportunity, Neighbourhood Change, Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Spatial Analysis, Data Science
Biography
Alex Ramiller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the use of large administrative datasets to explore the production of urban spatial inequality, with a particular interest in untangling the complex interactions between housing and land use policies, neighborhood context, and individual outcomes. His recent work has explored the economic and spatial trajectories of low-income housing subsidy recipients, the impacts of alternative homeownership models such as Community Land Trusts, eviction risks associated with building renovation and demolition, and the relationship between urban spatial structure and consumer debt.
Publications
Ramiller, A., Acolin, A., Walter, R. J., & Wang, R. (2024). Moving to shared equity: Locational outcomes for households in shared equity homeownership programs. Housing Studies, 39(5), 1239–1263. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2115467
Ramiller, A., Song, T., Parker, M., & Chapple, K. (2024). Residential Mobility and Big Data: Assessing the Validity of Consumer Reference Datasets. Cityscape, 26(3), 227–240.
Schmahmann, L., Ramiller, A., & Fields, D. (2024). Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco’s Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008–2020. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114(1), 139–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2242460
Ramiller, A. (2022). Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle. Urban Studies, 59(6), 1148–1166. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211004214