Kuni Kamizaki is an assistant professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). Kuni’s research adopts a multi-scalar approach to urban transformation in global cities, with an emphasis on issues of displacement and housing inequality, as well as community-led alternatives for social and racial justice.

He is engaged in two strands of research. His first strand of research focuses on the decline of Tokyo in the time of “post-growth” Japan. Specifically, it examines planning responses to unprecedented population decline and aging, with a focus on effects of monetary easing, neighbourhood revitalization, and the crisis of care. A second strand focuses on the potential of community land trusts (CLTs) and social-solidarity economy initiatives to challenge displacement and pursue housing justice. To this end, he has been collaborating with Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust in Toronto and Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust in Vancouver.