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Housing Policy Debate provides a venue for original research on housing and community development policy. Vincent Reina is the current Editor in Chief.
🛠️ Two weeks left to submit an abstract for our call for papers honoring LIHTC's 40th anniversary! See more details below.
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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July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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☺️
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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July 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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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June 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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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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May 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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In a new piece in @houspoldebate.bsky.social, esteemed coauthors and I write about potential ways to reimagine outdated, inequitable parts of the housing finance system.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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April 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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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.
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.

evictionlab.org/disrupting-t...
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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April 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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April 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"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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March 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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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March 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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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March 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Friendly reminder that abstracts are due Friday next week, February 28th! More details on how to submit below!!
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
February 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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
February 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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!
January 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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!
January 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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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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November 21, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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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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November 20, 2024 at 6:25 PM