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Prof. Justin Steil

Class of 1942 Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Urban Planning

Primary DLC

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MIT Room: 9-515
(617) 253-2017
https://dusp.mit.edu/people/justin-steil

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Immigration Policy and Immigrant Incorporation
Local Government, Civil Rights and Fair Housing Law
Residential Segregation by Race, Ethnicity adn Income
Organizational Analysis
Network Analysis
Housing Community
Economic Development

Research Summary

Professor Steil is a lawyer and urban planner; his scholarship untangles how the structure of local governance and land use law interacts with housing policies to shape the spatial structure of our social world in ways that produce economic and racial inequality. He also analyzes how zoning and housing policies can be redesigned to increase equality of access to resources and advance racial justice.

Recent Work

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