[2] In 1997, Blomley began to develop a computerized geographical information system with data on Vancouver's downtown eastside land market as a way to combat gentrification.

The book focused on how problems facing gentrification and Indigenous land claims are generated through modern concepts of property and ownership.

[10] During the 2011–12 academic year, Blomley sat on the Graduate Student Activity Committee of the Law and Society Association.

[14] In 2018, Blomley, Natalia Perez, and Andy Yan began a pilot study on evictions in the private rental housing market in Metro Vancouver.

[16] The next year, he sat on the Graduate Studies Committee[17] and on the Executive Board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded research project "Landscapes of Injustice"[18] He was also selected to sit on the Application and Nomination Review Committee for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.