Alexander Hermann, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
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February 7, 2024
However defined, rural areas in the US face significant and unique economic and housing challenges. Yet there is no standard definition of rural used in federal policy and no…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Bernadette Hanlon, Shannon Rieger
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April 3, 2020
Scholars conducting empirical research on U.S. suburbs must develop their own definition of suburbia. In this paper, we operationalize three suburban definitions commonly…
Decreasing federal resources since the 1980s, policy devolution to the local level, and expansion of market-based approaches for affordable housing delivery have resulted in…
Written by Caroline Lauer, a Master of Urban Planning student at Harvard's Graduate School of Design who was a 2017 Edward M. Gramlich Fellow in Community and Economic…
J. Michael Collins, Eric Belsky, Micky Tripathi
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July 15, 1999
W99-7: This paper provides a step-by-step approach to understanding and estimating the economic benefits of helping lower-income households buy and own their first home…