Kenton Card, PhD, is a researcher and advocate working to analyze and reform the rental housing system. He is an urban planner, sociologist, filmmaker, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota and Visiting Urban Scholar at the Initiative on Cities at Boston University. 

 

He received the 2024 Janet Smith Emerging Activist Scholar Research Award from the Urban Affairs Association. 

 

Kenton recently completed his PhD at UCLA, where he worked at the Center for Community Engagement and Community Scholars Program. In Germany, he was a guest researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and the Berlin House of Representatives.

 

His dissertation on The New Politics of Housing (2023) examined the evolving strategies and discourses of rental housing politics across the United States and Germany since 2008, parts of which were published in Housing Studies and Urban Affairs Review.

 

Kenton is a Scholar Development Editor at Journal of Urban Affairs, and former Managing Editor of Critical Planning Journal. Recently, he co-edited a Special Issues on housing movements and care (Antipode) and racial capitalism (Environment Planning C). 

 

Kenton’s film Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore won multiple awards and screened at film festivals. 

 

You can find out more about his work at kentoncard.com.