The Team
Alex Schafran
Alex Schafran has worked in and on housing for almost 25 years. He started his housing career as a tenant organizer in New York City, before diving into an academic life that helped take him around the world. He started Schafran Strategies after coming back home to California, and is excited to apply the lessons learned from both practice and research to the full set of housing challenges in California. His practice is guided by the lessons learned in The Road to Resegregation, his 2019 book about Northern California’s housing crisis, and by 2020’s The Spatial Contract, a book of ideas on how to rebuild the social contract of housing and other key urban systems. His current writing can be found on the Substack Where We Go From Here, and he is the host of the podcast Housing After Dark. Immediately prior to starting Schafran Strategies he was a consultant to Facebook/Meta’s affordable housing initiative.
Tina Lee
Tina Lee is a Master in Public Affairs student at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. During graduate school, she has worked as a Graduate Researcher at Eviction Lab at Princeton University and a Fellow in the Deputy Mayor’s Office for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce in New York City. Previously, she worked on the Housing and Community Development Team at the National League of Cities managing eviction prevention technical assistance programs for cities in partnership with the Stanford Law School Legal Design Lab and research on topics like short-term rentals and the impacts of institutional investors on local housing markets.
Alex Ramiller is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in urban data science and housing policy. His past work covers a range of topics including the politics of urban sustainability, the impacts of alternative models of homeownership, and the use of big data to determine the impacts of residential mobility. He has also conducted research for organizations including the City of Seattle, PolicyLink, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Alex Ramiller
We’re a small team that expands from time to time as projects demand. If you have skills that you think would compliment ours, and believe in what we do, don’t hesitate to reach out.