Panel: Housing, Urban Development, and Displacement

Tim Thomas, Chief Research and Data Officer, King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA)

Talk Title: The Housing Precarity Risk Model: Predicting Displacement and Eviction Risk in a Post-COVID U.S.

Will von Geldern, PhD Candidate, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

Talk Title: Measuring Displacement: Using Mixed Methods to Understand Eviction Outcomes

Parrington Hall Room 360

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10/03/2025
12:30-1:30 PM PT

360 Parrington Hall

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Dr. Tim Thomas (he/they) is the Chief Research and Data Officer at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) and professional researcher in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on eviction, housing precarity, and urban inequality, blending advanced data science with liberation research to uncover systemic inequities and inform transformative housing policy.
He is the founder of the Eviction Research Network and formerly served as Research Director for UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project. His pioneering methods, including the use of eviction court record text-mining and displacement prediction modeling, have shaped tenant protections, extended the CDC eviction moratorium, and informed policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels including the White House, HUD, and Treasury.
Will von Geldern (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He uses mixed methods to examine the effects of public policies and legal systems on the health and wellbeing of marginalized communities. His dissertation combines qualitative analysis, data science, and experimental methods to study the barriers that prevent tenants from accessing legal assistance during evictions.