Hayden Marie Shelby

Hayden Shelby is a global scholar of community development and housing policy Her work has taken her all over the world, from Honolulu to Bangkok to Cincinnati. Internationally, she has examined the how collective housing models such as cooperatives and community land trusts travel the globe through networks of policy experts and grassroots activists. More locally, she researchers the networks of organizations that support low-income homeownership in Cincinnati. Her work has appeared in Housing Policy Debate, the Interational Journal of Housing Policy, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.  In the School of Planning, she teaches courses on housing, community development, and urban theory.

B.A. : Cornell University Ithaca, NY, 2007 (Economics)

MCRP: The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, 2014 (City and Regional Planning)

M.A.: The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, 2014 (Geography)

Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, 2019 (City and Regional Planning)

2019 -2021 Assistant Professor , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Grant: #SSRC Short-term seed grant 2023 Investigators:Shelby, Hayden 09-01-2022 -12-31-2022 Social Science Research Council Development Imaginaries, Infrastructure and Climate Subjectivities in Asia Role:PI 4905.00 Awarded Level:Non Profit

Peer Reviewed Publications

Shelby, Hayden (2017. ) Why Place Really Matters: A Qualitative Approach to Housing Preferences and Neighborhood Effects.Housing Policy Debate, , 27 (4 ) ,547-569 More Information

Shelby, Hayden (2017. ) The Right to Remain in the City: How One Community Has Used Legal Rights and Rights Talk to Stay Put in Bangkok.Berkeley Planning Journal, , 29 ,129-151 More Information

Shelby, Hayden (2021. ) Empowerment or Responsibility? Collective Finance for Slum Upgrading in Thailand.International Journal of Housing Policy, , 21 (4 ) ,505 -433More Information

Shelby, Hayden (2021. ) Commoning or Being Commoned? Institutions, Politics, and the Role of the State in Collective Housing Policy in Bangkok, Thailand.Planning Theory, , 21 (4 ) ,333 -353More Information

Shelby, Hayden (2024. ) INSURGENT CO-PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand’s Baan Mankong Program.International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , , 48 (4 ) ,666 More Information

Shelby, Hayden (2024. ) Collective Housing Tenure in Global Perspective: Articulations across the South/North Divide.Journal of Planning Literature, , 40 (3 ) ,425 -438More Information

Shelby, Hayden and Trude Renwick (2023. ) Displacement through the Commons: Community and Spatial Order in Bangkok.City and Society, , 35 (3 ) ,191 -202More Information

Book Chapter

Shelby, Hayden (2024 ) Building Just Cities through Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with James Johnson-Piett. The Case for Cities .(pp. 174 -182).New York, Routledge