Cloé St-Hilaire

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Cloé St-Hilaire is a PhD Candidate in Planning at the University of Waterloo, where she holds a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her thesis, “Financialization and digital divide in Canada” looks at the relationship between digital technologies such as surveillance tech and revenue management software and the rise and proliferation of financial landlords in Canada’s rental housing sector. Previously, she completed her Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Commerce at McGill University. Cloé’s research interests centre around housing justice, financialization, digital technologies, big data methods, and critical planning. She is part of the Urban Politics and Governance research group at McGill, and has co-authored numerous reports on short-term rentals, evictions, and housing transitions.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo

Education

  • 2021 
    McGill University, Master of Urban Planning

Publications

  • 2025
    Financialization, Housing Rents, and Affordability in Toronto, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
  • 2024
    High Rises and Housing Stress: A Spatial Big Data Analysis of Rental Housing Financialization, Journal of the American Planning Association

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
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    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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