Sullivan Publishes Groundbreaking Research on Eviction Policy

Published: April 13, 2017

Sociology Assistant Professor Esther Sullivan's comparative ethnographic analysis of state regulation and housing insecurity has been published as the lead article in the top sociology journal, American Sociological Review (Vol. 82(2), pp. 243-269). This piece, which ASR referred to as "ground-breaking," examines outcomes of state policies meant to manage low-income residents during mass evictions from mobile home parks, and identifies mechanisms through which the structure of state aid can either mitigate or aggravate the trauma of eviction.