About

Rafael Campos-Gottardo

I am a quantitative and qualitative researcher with expertise in causal inference and spatial analysis who studies support for housing and housing policies in Canada. I currently work at the Global Migration Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University, where I study housing for international students as part of Bridging Divides’ Place and Infrastructure theme. I also examine individual level support for housing as part of a project with the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP), which I have written about in the Waterloo Region Record.

I have previously contributed to the Canadian Election Study (CES) and worked extensively as a research assistant for the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP), Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship.

I received a Master’s Degree in Political Science from McGill University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Portrait of Rafael Campos-Gottardo on a Toronto street

Featured research

Public support for new housing

With colleagues at LISPOP, I study how persuasive appeals, partisanship, housing status, and the built environment shape support for new housing developments, drawing on the 2022 Ontario General Election.

Housing policy Public opinion Ontario politics

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