Substantively, it addresses two topics: the mechanisms driving long-term declines in residential crowding in the U.S. and the estimation of housing shortfalls. More broadly, it introduces a framework for thinking about the current housing crisis in demographic perspective.

Hepburn is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark and a research coordinator at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Demography from the University of California-Berkely. His research examines how changes to three core social institutions — work, criminal justice, and housing — have served to produce and perpetuate inequality. The first branch of his research explores the causes and consequences of eviction. The second centers on parental work scheduling, child care arrangements, and family structure. The third explores the reach of the criminal justice system, especially in ways that commonly-available data make difficult to measure. Taken as a whole, my work contributes to the literature on housing, families, mass incarceration, employment, and stratification and to our understanding of the equality of opportunity in modern America.