Fernanda Jahn-Verri is an architect and urbanist and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests center on housing precarity, displacement, financialization of the city, poor people’s movements, informality, and postcolonial theory. Her current work is based on Brazil and explores the role of the judiciary in practices of dispossession in the country, as well as the legal remedies being mobilized by housing rights groups to contest and challenge court-ordered eviction. She has presented her work in several conferences around the world, including Latin America and Europe. Before moving to the United States, she completed her MA in urban and regional planning at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where she researched the institutionalization of housing and planning agencies and their contribution to the development and application of urban policies at a local level. She is originally from Porto Alegre, known for its participatory planning tradition and past of progressive housing programs, a city that she misses.
