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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jul 18

🛠️ Two weeks left to submit an abstract for our call for papers honoring LIHTC's 40th anniversary! See more details below.

Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

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Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jul 1

Reminder that submissions for our LIHTC program special issue are due on August 1st, 31 days from now! We hope to be reading your abstract soon☺️

Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲

Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jun 25

Check out "Distrust and Disrepair: How Homeowners Perceptions of Contractors Matter", a new article in HPD Journal by Natalie Blaustone-Dye, Eileen Tomczuk, and @robinbartram.bsky.social that argues that homeowners use distrust as a tool to protect their homes doi.org/10.1080/1051...

Distrust and Disrepair: How Homeowners’ Perceptions of Contractors Matter

Drawing on qualitative interviews with a racially diverse sample of 46 homeowners in New Orleans and Chicago, we reveal how homeowners’ distrust in contractors shapes the character of home repair e...

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · May 30

The #LIHTC program turns 40 in 2026! Is it over the hill? Is 40 the new 30? @houspoldebate.bsky.social will devote a special issue to find out!

🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲🏙️🛠️💲

Abstract submissions due August 1. CFP: upenn.app.box.com/s/hm2rl7912o...

#housing #data #research #HPD

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Apr 28

In a new piece in @houspoldebate.bsky.social, esteemed coauthors and I write about potential ways to reimagine outdated, inequitable parts of the housing finance system. We think about leveraging new tech + meeting the needs of a changing population: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thinking Outside the Credit Box: Strategies to Advance Equity in the Housing Finance System

What would it take to increase homeownership rates and close the racial homeownership gap in the U.S.? In this paper, a group of interdisciplinary housing policy scholars provide their collective i...

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Leah Robinson @leah-robinson.bsky.social · Apr 28

Super excited to share our new paper on national Tenant Right to Counsel policies, out today in @houspoldebate.bsky.social! Grateful to have worked with such an amazing team on this project.

Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · Apr 28

New Study 🔔:

More than 7M Americans face eviction each year. But if they go to court, most do it alone, without a lawyer.

Our researchers studied the initiatives that are trying to change this reality, known as Right to Counsel programs or RTC.

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Disrupting the Eviction System: Tenant Right to Counsel

As a growing number of jurisdictions consider adopting RTC—and as researchers seek to analyze the effects of such programs—it is critical to understand their challenges and the keys to their success. ...

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Apr 25

New article online in Housing Policy Debate! "Extra-Judicial Evictions and Changing Landlord Strategies in Response to the Eviction Moratorium" by
Edward G. Goetz @yiw0104.bsky.social and @tonydamiano.bsky.social

DOI: doi.org/10.1080/1051...

Repost to correct handles 😀

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Mar 14

"Has Housing Filtering Stalled? Heterogeneous Outcomes in the American Housing Survey, 1985–2021"
by Jonathan Spader

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Has Housing Filtering Stalled? Heterogeneous Outcomes in the American Housing Survey, 1985–2021

Filtering of housing units—the process through which housing units over time serve occupants with lower or higher incomes—is a primary source of low-cost housing supply in the United States. Howeve...

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Mar 14

New Article in Housing Policy Debate Journal!
"The Home Price Impacts of CDBG-Funded Investments: An Exploration into Nonlinear and Threshold Effects"
by Brett Theodos, George Galster & @amandahermans.bsky.social

DOI: doi.org/10.1080/1051...

The Home Price Impacts of CDBG-Funded Investments: An Exploration into Nonlinear and Threshold Effects

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program has been one of the largest federal programs supporting lower-income communities, yet there have been few rigorous evaluations of whether it has...

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Mar 14

New Editorial from Housing Policy Debate Journal
by Vincent Reina and Rebecca Yae

DOI: doi.org/10.1080/1051...

Editorial

Published in Housing Policy Debate (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2025)

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Feb 21

Friendly reminder that abstracts are due Friday next week, February 28th! More details on how to submit below!!

Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Feb 5

We're well into February 😱 -- which means abstracts are due at ❗the end of this month❗ for our extended call for papers exploring, “How does housing policy impact the racial wealth gap?” More details on the call for papers here: bit.ly/40vn9P4

Infographic with basic information on Housing Policy Debate's Call for Papers.

Equity at Home. How does housing policy impact the racial wealth gap? We invite submissions on the foundations, outcomes, challenges, and alternatives to the intersection of housing policy and the racial wealth gap. Send an extend abstract of no more than 500 words to p.dantzler@utoronto.ca and hpd.eic@gmail.com

Guest editors include: Lisa Bates (Portland State University), Kenton Card (Boston University), Prentiss Dantzler (University of Toronto), and Seumalu Elora Raymond (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Deadlines:
February 28, 2025: extended deadline for abstracts
March 31, 2025: notification of abstract selection
September 30, 2025: deadline for initial full paper submission

Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Feb 5

Accepted papers will appear in a special issue guest edited by @lkb-pdx.bsky.social, @kentoncard.bsky.social, @docdantzler.bsky.social , and @eloralee.bsky.social. We’re very excited to read your submissions on this important topic 👀 👀

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Feb 5

We're well into February 😱 -- which means abstracts are due at ❗the end of this month❗ for our extended call for papers exploring, “How does housing policy impact the racial wealth gap?” More details on the call for papers here: bit.ly/40vn9P4

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jan 23

Adding the wonderful @lkb-pdx.bsky.social!! Finally found your handle 😀

Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jan 23

Welcome to Housing Policy Debate Journal’s BlueSky! All future updates on articles, interviews, call for papers, and general news for the Journal can be found here, starting Feb 1st, 2025. More news on the latest housing research soon!

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jan 22

Accepted papers will appear in a special issue guest edited by Lisa K. Bates, @kentoncard.bsky.social, @docdantzler.bsky.social and @eloralee.bsky.social. Find additional details here: bit.ly/40vn9P4

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Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social · Jan 22

Consider, "How does housing policy impact the racial wealth gap?" Housing Policy Debate Journal's call for papers exploring this question is still active - submit an abstract by February 28!

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Nick Revington @nickrevington.bsky.social · Nov 21

There's a new @houspoldebate.bsky.social blog, and one of the first posts is this nice little summary of my article with AJ Wray about planning for student housing in Ontario:
www.housingpolicyblog.org/student-hous...

Student Housing In Canada

Authors: Nick Revington and Alexander James David Wray Published Online: 27 Jul 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2022.2093939

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Rolf Pendall @rpplan.bsky.social · Nov 20

I learned so much just now about Chapter 40B (MA's "anti-NIMBY" law) from a new article by Noémie Sportiche and colleages in @houspoldebate.bsky.social. 40B has created tens of thousands of units in "high-opportunity" neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1080/1051...

Can Fair Share Policies Expand Neighborhood Choice? Evidence From Bypassing Exclusionary Zoning Under Massachusetts Chapter 40B

Opening up neighborhoods that offer greater opportunities for social mobility to low- and moderate-income households remains a challenge in the United States. Exclusionary zoning practices act as a...

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