Julia Harten

Julia Harten is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Data Innovation for Housing and Inclusive Urbanization in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. In her work, she leverages new data methods to study housing and socio-spatial inequality. She focuses on the housing strategies of marginalized people and the role of cities and housing for social mobility, both in Asia and North America.

She is a Urban China Research Network board member and a co-organizer of the Urban China Zoom Talk Series. At UBC, Julia is involved with the Housing Research Collaborative, the Center for Chinese Research, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, and UBC Migration Studies. She is also part of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative and Shanghai Jiaotong University's Center for Housing and Urban-Rural Development.