Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center

  • The Black Butterfly

    A mix of market and nonmarket forces makes Baltimore an important place to examine the geography of opportunity in an American city.

    https://apps.urban.org/features/baltimore-investment-flows/
  • Three ways bikeshare can counteract, not reinforce, DC's disparities

    Capital Bikeshare users have generated millions of rides, but use and station placement varies around the city.

    https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/three-ways-bikeshare-can-counteract-not-reinforce-dcs-disparities
  • To turn around NYC’s housing authority, look to Chicago

    More federal control of NYC's housing authority will do little to help thousands of low-income New Yorkers who depend on it.

    https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/turn-around-nycs-housing-authority-look-chicago

Major Publications

Urban Wire Post
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

“A Green New Deal” sets a high bar for environmental economic change and justice

Carlos Martín
February 8, 2019
Brief
Finance

How Chicago and Cook County Can Leverage Opportunity Zones for Community Benefit

Brett Theodos, Brady Meixell
January 9, 2019
Urban Wire Post
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

We need better zoning data to address pressing housing and development issues

Graham MacDonald, Solomon Greene, Emma Nechamkin
January 15, 2019
Research Report
Housing and Housing Finance

Economic Mobility Services for Affordable Housing Residents

Eric Burnstein, Megan Gallagher, Wilton Oliver
January 15, 2019
Urban Wire Post
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

What the Bay Area and Cleveland reveal about trends in federal community development funding

Brady Meixell, Brett Theodos
January 31, 2019
Urban Wire Post
Immigrants and Immigration

For housing authorities, "public charge" expected to sow confusion and add administrative costs

Martha M. Galvez, Susan J. Popkin, Archana Pyati
January 17, 2019

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