APPAM Communities Housing Policy Research Community

Session Submission Type: APPAM Communities

Community Group Description

The Housing Policy Research Community is designed to bring together people committed to advancing policy that addresses key housing challenges, including restrictive land use regulations, affordability and stability, access to opportunity, and gentrification/displacement. The community is motivated by growing concerns about housing affordability and recognition that current policies fall short of addressing the need.  It is also motivated by the current policy environment, in which jurisdictions and states are increasingly passing pro-housing and/or tenant protection policies designed to address the affordability crisis.  However, these policies remain controversial and research in this field remains nascent, due to the recency of the policy shifts, variation in local contexts and policy designs, and data/methodological challenges. 

The Community seeks to build the capacity of housing scholars to conduct policy-relevant research, and to support emerging housing research centers at multiple Universities. This initial convening will include a discussion focused on the following questions: 

1. What are the open questions in housing policy? What research questions do policy-makers most need answers to? 

2. What datasets are scholars using (and their strengths/weaknesses)? How can we collaborate to access or build stronger datasets to answer critical questions (e.g. the National Zoning Atlas, tenant protection or rent registry data)?

3. How have researchers effectively engaged and partnered with policymakers? What lessons are there for emerging research centers, especially as it relates to increasing the policy impact of their work?

4. What opportunities are there for collaboration among researchers?

Policy Area

• APPAM Communities

Organizers

• Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University

• Carolina K Reid, University of California, Berkeley

Speakers

• Solomon J Greene, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

• Martha M Galvez, New York University