Brian J. McCabe is professor of sociology at Georgetown University. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership, the coauthor of Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle, and the coeditor of The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He served as the deputy assistant secretary for policy development at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2022 – 2024.