Elizabeth Mueller is Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on the ways that patterns of economic and racial segregation and inequality were established and continue to be produced in growing cities. She has examined how contemporary local planning initiatives, aimed at increasing density and reducing driving, affect patterns of racial and economic segregation and exposure to environmental hazards and poor housing conditions. She is co-editor of The Affordable Housing Reader (2022) and co-author of Uprooted: Gentrification in Austin’s Residential Neighborhoods and What Can Be Done About It (2018), a report commissioned by the Austin City Council.

Anthony Damiano is Research Associate at the Center for Urban & Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. His work applies quantitative and spatial methods to the study of housing and neighborhood change. Some of his research has investigated the impact of new market-rate construction in Minneapolis on nearby residential rents.

Laura Wolf-Powers is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at City University of New York Hunter College and a member of the faculty in Earth & Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research explores the challenges of planning for community development under conditions of structural social inequality. She teaches economic development, real estate development, community planning, and political economy, and is the author of University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District (2022). Her current research focuses on the political economy of land valuation and property taxation.