Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond

Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond

Director, Ph.D. Program;
Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning

Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond

Director, Ph.D. Program;
Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning

Architecture-East Building, 204-D

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Specialization Area: Housing and Community Development

Currently accepting Ph.D. students. 

Dr. Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond is an urban planner and Assistant Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning in the College of Design at Georgia Tech. She is interested in the financialization of housing and property in land, displacement and dispossession through housing systems, housing and disasters, housing justice, race, segregation, and the transnational Pacific Islander community.

Dr. Raymond has explored widening housing wealth inequality following the real estate and financial crises of the 2000s, and the relationship between financialization of rental housing and eviction-led displacement. She has studied the effect of the foreclosure and affordability crises on Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles, and the financialization of customary land in Samoa. Dr. Raymond has ongoing projects on housing, displacement and disasters, including work on eviction and migration following disasters. 

Dr. Raymond has testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means, the House Committee on Financial Services, and has presented for HUD’s PD&R Quarterly. She has published articles in Human Progress in Geography, Urban Geography, Cityscape, JPER, Housing Studies, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Community and Economic Development Discussion Paper Series. Her research has been awarded Best Paper Award from Housing Policy Debate, and Best Conference Paper from the Journal of Urban Affairs. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Economist, Bloomberg’s Businessweek, NPR’s Morning Edition, ABC's Good Morning America, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Telemundo, Univision, the Samoa Observer and Radio New Zealand, among other news outlets.