Justin Steil is an Associate Professor of Law and Urban Planning. As a paramedic, a lawyer, and an urban planner, his research focuses on spatial dimensions of inequality in the domains of health equity, environmental justice, housing and land use policies, among others.

Justin is the co-editor of three books: Furthering Fair Housing: Prospects for Racial Justice in America’s Neighborhoods (2021); The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity (2019); and Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (2009).

His recent research on environmental justice focuses on the effects of climate-change-related disasters on renters, including on rents, evictions, and affordable housing production. Work on housing policy includes scholarship on housing discrimination and its effects, fair housing law and policy, gentrification and displacement pressure, and the dynamics of eviction.

Scholarship on land use disentangles how the structure of local governance and the regulation of land use interact with housing policies to shape the spatial structure of our social world in ways that produce economic and racial inequality.

His recent research on health equity focuses on the effects of neighborhoods on health and on the role of emergency medical services in advancing health equity.

Justin received a B.A. from Harvard College in African-American Studies, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in City Design and Social Science, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia’s GSAPP.