Teresa focuses on producing knowledge that is useful for the people and communities who are most affected by urban political-economic change to develop political capacity and autonomy to collectively shape their future. This agenda encompasses three main substantive areas of research: 1) the process of financialization, or the increasing role of financial institutions, actors, and logic in real estate development, housing, and education; 2) eviction and housing instability; and 3) the political economy of the arts and arts policy. Within these areas, Teresa has published traditional academic as well as public scholarship on working artists in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond, quantitative and qualitative studies on eviction policy, and the role of large-scale investors in transforming real estate markets and housing tenure. In the summer of 2018 Teresa co-founded the RVA Eviction Lab, housed within the Research Institute for Social Equity at the Wilder School, as a collaboration of faculty and students to produce community-responsive research and data that supports advocates and policy-makers in addressing eviction and housing instability in Richmond and Virginia.