Expertise

• Affordable housing
• Community development
• Gentrification

RVA Eviction Lab website: https://rampages.us/rvaevictionlab/

Education

B.A., Political Science, University of Georgia
M.A., Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., Community and Regional Planning, University of Texas

Teaching

Housing policy, research methods, planning history and theory, race, class and gender in planning

Research interests

Housing preservation and development, neighborhood change and gentrification, urban history, race and class in the city

Accomplishments

Washington, D.C. Preservation Network member/researcher, Urban Affairs Association member

Selected publications

Howell, Kathryn. 2017. “For the kids”: Children, safety and the depoliticization of displacement in Washington, DC, Journal of Urban Affairs(2017)

Howell, Kathryn. 2017. Neighborhoods, local networks, and the non-linear path of the expiration and preservation of federal rental subsidies,Urban Studies

Howell, Kathryn. 2017. Housing and the grassroots: Using local and expert knowledge to preserve affordable housing, Journal of Planning Education and Research

Howell, Kathryn. 2016 Preservation from the Bottom-Up: Affordable Housing, Redevelopment, and Negotiation in Washington, DC. Housing Studies. 

Howell, Kathryn. 2016. Building Empowerment in Market-Based Redevelopment: Changing Paradigms for Affordable Housing and Community Development in Washington, DC. Community Development Journal.

Howell, Kathryn. 2016. Multi-sited approaches to planning and affordable housing: Upending the traditional approach to addressing gentrification, The Journal of Planning Theory and Practice.

Peer reviewed journal articles

Howell, Kathryn and Immergluck, Daniel William. 2021. Evictions: Shedding Light on the Hidden Housing Problem. Housing Policy Debate. (Co-Guest editor introduction to the three-volume special issue on eviction)

Teresa, Benjamin F. and Howell, Kathryn. 2021. Segmentation and Eviction in the Housing Market. Housing Policy Debate. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2020.1839937

Howell, Kathryn. 2019. Winning in a “lose-lose” environment of economic development: housing, community empowerment, and neighborhood redevelopment in the Columbia heights neighborhood of Washington, DC, Housing and Society, DOI:10.1080/08882746.2019.1697090   

Summers, Brandi and Howell, Kathryn. Fear and Loathing (of Others) in Washington, DC, 2019. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2019.1697090

Kathryn Howell; Mueller, Elizabeth J. and Brown Wilson, Barbara. 2019. One Size Fits None: Local context and planning for the preservation of affordable housing. Housing Policy Debate. 29 (1), 148-165.

Howell, K. and Brown Wilson, Barbara. 2018. Preserving Community through Radical Collaboration: Affordable Housing Preservation Networks in Chicago, Washington, DC and Denver. Journal of Housing Theory & Society

Howell, Kathryn. 2018. Stability, advocacy and voice: Opportunities and challenges in resident-led preservation of affordable housing. Housing Studies. 34 (8), 1330-1348.

Howell, Kathryn. 2017. “For the kids”: Children, safety and the depoliticization of displacement in Washington, DC, Journal of Urban Affairs

Howell, Kathryn. 2017. Neighborhoods, local networks, and the non-linear path of the expiration and preservation of federal rental subsidies, Urban Studies

Howell, Kathryn. 2017. Housing and the grassroots: Using local and expert knowledge to preserve affordable housing, Journal of Planning Education and Research

Howell, Kathryn. 2016 Preservation from the Bottom-Up: Affordable Housing, Redevelopment, and Negotiation in Washington, DC. Housing Studies.

Howell, Kathryn. 2016. Building Empowerment in Market-Based Redevelopment: Changing Paradigms for Affordable Housing and Community Development in Washington, DC. Community Development Journal.

Howell, Kathryn. 2016. Multi-sited approaches to planning and affordable housing: Upending the traditional approach to addressing gentrification. TheJournal of Planning Theory and Practice.

Books

Howell, Kathryn. 2021. Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC: A Framework for Local Funding, Collaborative Governance, and Community Organizing for Change. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishing. (2021) Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC: A Framework for Local Funding, Collaborative Governance, and Community Organizing for Change. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishing.

Book chapters

“It’s Complicated…”: Long-term residents and their relationships to gentrification in Washington, DC (2015) in Derek Hyra and Sabiyha Prince, eds, A Post-Industrial Powerhouse: Growth and Inequality in Our Nation’s Capital. Routledge Press.

Housing and Community. 2018. in Andrew T. Carswell, Sarah Kirby, Kenneth R. Tremblay, and Katrin Anaker, eds, Introduction to Housing. University of Georgia Press.

Book reviews

Howell, Kathryn. 2020. Democracy’s capital: Black political power in Washington, D.C. 1960s–1970s, by Lauren Pearlman, Journal of Urban Affairs

Howell, Kathryn. 2019. Review: Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C., by Huron, Amanda. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X19862022

Howell, Kathryn. 2019. Review: Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, DC by Logan, Cameron. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 39(4), 529–531.

Howell, Kathryn. 2016. “Book Review: Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design since 1880.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 36, no. 4: 489–90.

Review of Cities of Tomorrow by Peter Hall. 2016. Journal of Planning Education and Research.