Priya Gupta, McGill University

Research

housing institutional investment pension funds financialization social welfare privatization unions landlord-tenant law

Latest funding

Becoming the World's Landlords? Pension Funds and the Turn to Housing Investment
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$31,573

Becoming the World's Landlords? Pension Funds and the Turn to Housing Investment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Gupta, Priya

Keywords: housing; institutional investment; pension funds; financialization; social welfare; privatization; unions; landlord-tenant law; real estate investment; corporate governance

$31,573

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: housing Dear Professor Gupta, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on housing connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Becoming the World's Landlords? Pension Funds and the Turn to Housing Investment" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]