Elora Lee Raymond is a PhD candidate in Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning. She researches housing-wealth inequality and institutional change in housing and mortgage markets. She has published on the uneven housing market recovery ; on spatial fixity and construction foreclosures ; on eviction in private equity-owned single-family rentals ; and on leasehold mortgages and customary land tenure reform in Samoa, her country of origin. Her undergraduate degree is in history from Brown University.