UO Today interview: Claire Herbert (B.S. UO 2006), Sociology, University of Oregon

Claire Herbert’s research interests include Crime, Law and Deviance; Housing and Homelessness; Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; and Poverty and Inequality. Her monograph "A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality," was published in March 2021 by the University of California Press. In this interview she discusses how people cope with housing insecurity and homelessness in Detroit and Eugene. She also talks about what drew her back to the UO.