Meredith Greif is nobody’s idea of a free-market fundamentalist. A sociologist by training, she’s spent much of her career studying life in African slums, and the effects of racism on low-income tenants in the US. Starting in 2018, she turned her attention from low-income tenants to their landlords. She spent two years interviewing more than 100 landlords in the city of Cleveland. Why landlords? “I’ve been studying housing for a long time, because it’s such a fundamental aspect of well-being for people in terms of their health outcomes, their job security, education, and more,” Greif said. “I pivoted to study…
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