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INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF URBAN SCHOLARSHIP OUP's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship: OUP's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program analyzes some of the many positive impacts that Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant recipients continue to make in the housing- and urban development-related fields of research. To view this publication online, visit www.huduser.org/portal/ or the Office of University Partnerships Web site at www.oup.org. To request a hardcopy version of this publication, please call HUD USER at (800) 245-2691 and choose option 3 (University Partnerships Clearinghouse) from the voice menu. You may request publications by e-mail at oup@oup.org. All OUP publications are free of charge.
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship OUP's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program Prepared by: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of University Partnerships February 2013
Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Research in Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Policy Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Educating the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Appendix: DDRG Grantees, 1994–2011. . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 1 Introduction When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established the Office of University Partnerships (OUP) in 1994, it decided that one of the new office’s goals would be to “create the next generation of urban scholars and encourage them to focus their work on housing and community development policy.” HUD already had a long history, through its Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), of seeking out reliable and objective data and analysis to inform its key policy decisions. Aligning one of OUP’s goals with this mission would allow HUD a more active role in increasing the number of housing and community development specialists who would continue to perform this valuable and innovative research. To this end, OUP launched the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) program as one of its two original funding opportunities. The program’s purpose was twofold: • Enable doctoral candidates to complete their research and dissertations on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues. • Fund research studies that may impact federal problemsolving and policymaking and that are relevant to HUD’s policy priorities and annual goals and objectives. Throughout DDRG’s 17-year lifespan, OUP provided funding to nearly 300 doctoral candidates located in 29 states and the District of Columbia (see Exhibit 1). 1 These one-time grants not only helped recipients complete their doctorates, but they also ultimately supported HUD’s goal of ensuring a continued interest in the development and application of research on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues. More importantly, OUP continues to see returns from the investments made in these DDRG recipients. In 2010, OUP performed an informal assessment of the 233 DDRG recipients who received funding between the years of 1994 and 2008. 2 What OUP discovered was that, upon completion of their doctorates, DDRG recipients have gone on to return the Office’s assistance in various roles—as economists, professors, policy analysts, researchers, social scientists, statisticians, and more—and through myriad forms of discourse on the housing and community development-related issues most affecting this nation’s communities. This publication highlights some of the sectors in which these grantees are making the greatest contributions, along with showcasing a sample of the work being done by this dedicated group of grantees.
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 2 EXHIBIT 1 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH GRANTS (DDRGs) PER STATE, 1994–2011 Source: Numbers collected from the DDRG phone book on the Office of University Partnerships (OUP) Web site, www.oup.org/phonebook/DDRGphone.asp. Total Number of Awarded DDRGs: 276
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 3 Research in Focus It should come as no surprise that, regardless of whatever career fields DDRG recipients enter upon graduation, the majority have continued to help drive the progress of HUD-relevant research. Many continue to seek solutions to problems they first began to critically analyze during their doctoral studies. Several have made their marks as experts within certain fields of interest—homelessness, gerontology, predatory lending—with their research playing key roles in the implementation of new policies and procedures on federal, state, and local levels. Exhibit 2 provides a cross-section sampling of the impressive spectrum of research areas that DDRG recipients indicated in their assessment responses. EXHIBIT 2 DDRG RECIPIENT RESEARCH AREAS This list represents the diversity of research interests among OUP’s DDRG recipients. It also reflects an inherent understanding among these recipients that the prosperity of a community is not solely contingent upon policy or infrastructure. It depends upon the holistic well-being and stability of all facets of the community and its residents. Research specialties include: • Affordable housing • Anthropology • Architecture • Civic engagement • Community development • Consumer finance • Economic inequality • Educational inequality • Environmental policy • Family and child welfare • Federal housing policy • Gentrification • Geographic information systems • Gerontology • Homelessness • Immigration • International planning • Low-income housing policy • Mixed-methods research • Mortgage finance • Mortgage lending • Neighborhood revitalization • Public housing • Race and class • Real estate finance • Service learning • Social inequality • Social policy • Spatial analytic methods • Subprime and predatory lending • Sustainable growth • Transportation studies • Urban health disparities • Urban planning and design • Urban poverty • Welfare reform
Furthermore, many DDRG recipients continue to have the results of their research published in some of the most respected journals within their fields, including Community Development Journal, Economic Development Quarterly, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Urban Affairs (currently edited by 1996 DDRG recipient Dr. Victoria Basolo), and HUD’s own Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. Cityscape's goal is “to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to scholars, government officials, and practitioners.” 3 For each issue—the journal publishes three times a year—an advisory board selects the best articles submitted in response to that issue’s theme. A review of the Cityscape journals published throughout the past 5 years shows that DDRG recipients appeared—as either sole or co- contributors—in 60 percent of the journals released during this period. In 2004, HUD even published a special edition of Cityscape dedicated to highlighting the research efforts of DDRG recipients. 4 The purposes of this edition were to acknowledge the quality of these scholars’ research and its relevance to HUD’s mission, and to encourage other doctoral students to participate in the Department’s research-support programs to advance HUD’s research agenda. The table of contents from this issue is as follows: • “Neighborhood Jump-Starting: Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative,” Mahyar Arefi (1998 grantee). • “Valuation of Metropolitan Quality of Life in Wages and Rents,” Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom (2001 grantee). • “Positive Homeownership Attitudes, Homeownership Behavior, and Neighborhood Ties in Poor Urban Neighborhoods,” Sandra L. Barnes (1999 grantee). • “Moving Over or Moving Up? Short-Term Gains and Losses for Relocated HOPE VI Families,” Susan Clampet- Lundquist (2001 grantee). • “Aging in Place in Multifamily Housing,” Vera Prosper (1997 grantee). • “The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-20th-Century America,” James R. Elliott (1996 grantee). • “The Struggle for Housing Equality: Impact of Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Laws on Local Advocacy,” Mara S. Sidney (1998 grantee). • “Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Influence of Information Technologies,” Laxmi Ramasubramanian (1996 grantee). The range of research represented by these articles confirms the diversity of focus and perspective that DDRG recipients are contributing to the continuing examination of urban issues. More recently, in March 2011, Cityscape dedicated an issue to “Discovering Homelessness.” DDRG recipients authored three of the four primary articles. 5 Ultimately, the findings they presented in this issue became the basis for the first Empowerment Series event sponsored by OUP in September of that same year (see Exhibit 3). Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 4
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 5 E XHI B IT 3 EMPOWERING DISCOURSE ON HOMELESSNESS On September 20, 2011, OUP hosted representatives from nonprofits and academia, as well as staff from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal agencies, for their inaugural Empowerment Series workshop, “The Key to Unlocking Homelessness in America: Emerging Trends in HUD-Sponsored Research.” Three former DDRG recipients—Dr. Courtney Cronley, Dr. George R. Carter III, and Dr. Tatjana Meschede—led the conversation, speaking candidly about their research projects. Their presentations focused on project impacts, shared goals, lessons learned, and the importance of HUD’s continued leadership in the fight to reduce and prevent homelessness and foster relevant research. Through each of their presentations, these former DDRG recipients showed how their three unique perspectives, areas of focus, and approaches could come together to take on one national problem in an ongoing effort to impact homelessness policy at all levels of government. The findings of these three researchers are prime examples of HUD-sponsored research that drives policy. Their research approaches break down as follows: Dr. Courtney Cronley, recipient of a DDRG award in 2008, explored the use of information management systems, such as the Homeless Management Information System, by homeless service providers in her dissertation, “www.homeless.org/culture: A Cross-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Technology Use Among Homeless Service Providers.” She found that the provider organizations that she surveyed showed high levels of resistance to technological change. She concluded that overcoming resistance and getting buy-in through educating local leaders and nonprofit staff about the usefulness and usability of new technologie s is critical to the success of national programs involving technology. Dr. Cronley received her doctorate in social work with a minor in statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is now an assistant professor of social work at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. George R. Carter III, recipient of a DDRG award in 2004, examined the overrepresentation of African Americans in the homeless population in his dissertation, “From Exclusion to Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing, and Homelessness.” African Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, but account for approximately 40 percent of the homeless population. Dr. Carter found that higher levels of African-American homelessness were linked to housing segregation as well as the clustering of services available to homeless people in the urban core, where there is often a large minority population. Dr. Carter received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and is now a social science analyst in PD&R’s Office of Housing and Demographic Analysis Division at HUD. Dr. Tatjana Meschede, recipient of a DDRG award in 2003, studied the achievements and failures of service providers attempting to reach the homeless population most likely to be left out of the homeless service delivery model—the chronically homeless street population—in her dissertation, “Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Homeless Street Dwellers: The Impact of Health and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment.” Her study investigated the bridges and barriers to housing for 174 chronically homeless street dwellers in urban Boston, and examined whether the services provided by public shelters, healthcare professionals, detoxification centers, and substance abuse programs actually helped homeless individuals move off the street and into permanent housing. Dr. Meschede received her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Boston and is currently the research director at the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University. 6
Policy Perspectives One of the benefits of the DDRG program was that each year, the topical focus adjusted according to HUD’s strategic goals, which were linked to the evolving needs and trends most affecting the welfare of our nation’s communities. For this reason, the research topics that applicants submitted each year reflected these changing needs and areas of concern. Consequently, the new researchers graduating into the workforce brought with them knowledge, methodology, and interests perfectly suited to provide data and insight tailored to create new policies or reform current policies relevant to the most pressing issues of the moment. For example, Dr. Zhong Yi Tong, a 2001 DDRG recipient, currently serves as an upper-level economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), where he has contributed extensively to monitoring, forecasting, and identifying causes of trends and risks related to the U.S. housing and residential mortgage markets at national, regional, and state levels. His financial and economic analyses on mortgage loan modifications and other interventions to bolster recovery and stabilization during the recent U.S. housing market crisis resulted in policy recommendations and special strategy designs submitted for implementation to senior OTS management. Dr. Tong’s analyses and forecasts of U.S. trends on housing price, affordability, mortgage finance, and policy interventions in residential real estate markets have proven themselves relevant not just on a national scale, but globally, receiving media attention both in the United States and China. In addition, his doctoral dissertation on the policy impact of the first-time homebuyer tax credit was used as the basis for policy proposals by both Democratic and Republican think tanks before and during the U.S. housing/fin ancial crises, and quoted as the only evidence in the U.S. congressional testimonies in support of creating the national first-time homebuyer tax credit program, one of the most successful government interventions that helped rescue a collapsed housing market in the United States during the crises. 7 Another current area of focus and concern is the rapidly increasing elderly population across the United States. A steady flow of “baby boomers” continue to pass into the retirement age range, resulting in increased debates and concern regarding entitlement programs and healthcare provision. Dr. Vera Prosper, a 1997 DDRG recipient, anticipated this impending shift in focus and tailored her research approach accordingly. Her dissertation, “Tenant Aging in Public and Publicly Assisted Multifamily Housing and Its Public Policy Implications for Housing and Long-Term Care,” helped her hone her policy analysis in relation to elderly housing, particularly for those who choose to “age in place” in their own homes rather than enter into institutional facilities. She continues to contribute to discourse on this and other gerontology-based policy implementation across New York as a senior policy analyst for the state’s Office for Aging. 8 Dr. Shirley Y. Chao, who received DDRG funding in 2005, continues to bring to light the issues of food and nutrition policy for seniors—first examined through her doctoral work—as the director of nutrition for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs. In this capacity, Dr. Chao helps to set the framework for services provided to the more than 1 million Massachusetts residents who are at or more than 60 years old. She is regularly contacted to provide testimony on behalf of organizations such as the National Association of Nutrition Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 7
and Aging Services Programs as she works to ensure sound policy is put into effect to meet the nutritional needs of senior citizens, regardless of their living choices or financial status. 9 For 1994 DDRG recipient Dr. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, her research led her to focus on social and “ethnogerontology,” or aging issues as they apply specifically to vulnerable African-American women. In addition to being the director of the Howard University Multidisciplinary Gerontology Center, which provides professional development for aging residents in Washington, D.C., she is co-director of the Washington Area Geriatric Education Center Consortium. Dr. Crewe has written numerous reports and studies pertaining to her areas of expertise, including for AARP, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization focused on, among other priorities, developing public policies that reflect the concerns and interests of their retirement-aged members. 10 Indeed, many DDRG recipients contribute to the creation and advancement of housing and community development policies. Their research supports the efforts of local and state housing authorities as well as organizations such as the nonprofit policy think tank Brookings Institution; 11 the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), which is dedicated to “helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity” 12 ; and the Urban Institute, which “gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues—to foster sound public policy and effective government.” 13 Dr. Ingrid Gould Ellen, recipient of DDRG funding in 1995, has held visiting positions at both the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. With research focused on neighborhoods, housing policy, and racial segregation, she has contributed extensively to research and policy analysis and implementation. In late 2008 and early 2009, she served on HUD’s agency review team for t he Obama Administration’s transition team. Dr. Ellen is currently a professor of urban planning and public policy at New York University’s Wagner School and co-director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She is also author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration and numerous academic journal articles. 14 For some recipients, their research path leads them into the heart of national policy itself, seeking out posts within federal agencies, including HUD. Dr. Derek S. Hyra, 2003 DDRG recipient and currently an associate professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, previously put his expertise to use for both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and HUD. At Treasury, he investigated the predictors and consequences of the subprime lending crisis. For HUD, he examined the community-level impact of national urban legislation such as the Community Development Block Grant, Empowerment Zones, and the HOPE VI program. He is an affiliated scholar of the Urban Institute with research expertise in inner-city economic development, globalization, national housing policy, urban politics, affordable housing finance, neighborhood poverty, and race. 15 Dr. Scott Susin continues to put into practice his expertise in econometrics and real estate economics, learned while working on the dissertation sponsored by his 1997 DDRG funding, as an economist in the Fair Lending Division of HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Prior to this position, he worked as the chief of the housing and urban development analysis staff of the U.S. Census Bureau. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen publications addressing housing issues. His research has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the American Planning Association, Cityscape, and the Journal of Housing Research. He has served as a referee for numerous academic journals, and his research is discussed in several widely used textbooks, such as Econometric Analysis, Price Theory and Applications, and City Economics. 16 Upon completing his dissertation, 2002 DDRG recipient Dr. Michael K. Hollar also joined HUD as an economist, assigned to the Economic Development and Public Finance Division. In this capacity, Dr. Hollar works extensively with projects and policy directly related to Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), including oversight of Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 8
LIHTC databases maintained by PD&R. He contributes regularly to prominent publications and reports, both within and outside of HUD, including the previously mentioned Cityscape journal. Some DDRG recipients opt to effect policy change outside of the public sector. Dr. Sheila Crowley, who won DDRG funding in 1995, is the president and chief executive officer of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), the membership organization founded by U.S. federal housing policy and low-income housing expert Cushing Dolbeare. NLIHC is dedicated to achieving socially just public policy that ensures that people with the lowest incomes in the United States have access to affordable and decent homes. One of the organization’s most prominent federal in-roads into low-income policy initiatives came when the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 officially established its National Housing Trust Fund campaign as a part of HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development. The fund is an affordable housing production program enacted to complement existing federal, state, and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing for extremely low- and very low-income households, including homeless families. 17 Under Dr. Crowley’s oversight, NLIHC has led an ad hoc coalition of national and Gulf Coast housing organizations to advocate on behalf of low-income people displaced by the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita, to ensure that sufficient housing is rebuilt at affordable costs to allow the return of all displaced residents who wish to do so. Dr. Crowley is also a member of the board of directors of the National Housing Trust, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Enterprise Community Partners, the Technical Assistance Collaborative, and the National Housing Conference. 18 In January 2000, 1997 DDRG recipient Dr. Kenneth E. Poole co-founded the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) as an independent nonprofit focused on assisting policymakers with developing a stronger understanding of how regional economies can compete effectively in the evolving, knowledge-based economy. In addition to his duties as CREC’s president and chief executive officer, he serves as the executive director of the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), a membership organization that “promotes excellence in community and economic research by working to improve data availability, enhance data quality, and foster learning about regional economic analytic methods.” 19 CREC oversees policy-relevant projects on a state-level basis all across the country, with focuses in regional analysis, strategy implementation, labor market information improvement, community workforce strategy, and industrial cluster analysis, to name a few. Under Dr. Poole’s leadership, CREC has undertaken and successfully completed more than 20 statewide, regional, and/or local development projects. As C2ER’s director, Dr. Poole works directly with economic and community development researchers in communities, states, academia, and the private sector throughout the United States. In this capacity, he has overseen all program development activities of the organization, including its research and professional training activities. Before establishing CREC, Dr. Poole served 6 years as the director of domestic economic development for the National Association of State Development Agencies. While there, he provided technical assistance and research support to state and local economic development professionals across the United States. He developed new project opportunities in technology-based economic development, economic and policy research, and the organization of state-based economic development initiatives. Dr. Poole also served 8 years as the director of technical assistance and research for the National Council for Urban Economic Development (now the International Economic Development Council), managing the preparation of more than 2 dozen publications and coordinating technical assistance activities in more than 40 U.S. communities. 20 Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 9
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 11 Educating the Future While impressive numbers of DDRG recipients continue to impact and influence the policies being put into place to address many of our nation’s most detrimental community dilemmas, many former grantees are “paying forward” DDRG’s investment in their education by now investing in the education of future colleagues and successors. Nearly 60 percent of the assessment respondents indicated that they were currently employed as professors, lecturers, or some form of adjunct faculty. Their concentrations include architecture and design, anthropology, economics, geography, gerontology, history, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban and regional planning, to name a few. For 2000 DDRG recipient Dr. Judith Grant Long, her research efforts on the relationship between infrastructure and urbanism prepared her for her current role as an assistant professor of urban planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and director of the master in urban planning degree program. Her teaching explores the intersection of contemporary professional practice with cutting-edge planning research and theory, with emphasis o n urban redevelopment, real estate development and public finance for planners, planning history and theory, doctoral research methods, as well as several specialized seminars on mega-projects. She advises students writing theses on mega-projects, tourism, and city branding at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Harvard, and at other universities. Building upon the work she began with her doctoral dissertation, “Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies for Major League Sports Facilities,” Dr. Long is also a nationally recognized expert in the planning, finance, and development of sports and tourism mega-projects. She has written two books inspired by this range of expertise: Public-Private Partnerships for Major League Sports Facilities, which examines the financial arrangements for more than 100 ballparks, stadiums, and arenas, and shows how host public partners pay far more to subsidize these facilities than is commonly understood; and her current book project, Olympic Urbanism: From Rome to Rio, which analyzes the claim of the Olympics as a catalyst for urban redevelopment, based on archival and field research in 15 host cities, from the 1960 Olympics in Rome to the games scheduled for Rio de Janeiro in 2016. 21 Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez, 1995 DDRG recipient, has shared his research expertise in transportation, land use, urban and regional planning, and environmental justice via professorial postings at several institutions of higher education across the country, including the University of Utah, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the George Washington University, Portland State University, Iowa State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Additionally, he is a nonresident senior fellow for the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program, where he has contributed extensively to research on transportation within U.S. metropolitan areas. 22 As an associate professor of political science at Emory University, 1999 DDRG recipient Dr. Michael Leo Owens specializes in urban, state, and local politics; political penology, governance, and public policy processes; religion and politics; and African-American politics. He is an associate of Emory’s Office of University-Community Partnerships and Center for the Study of Law and Religion, and serves on the boards of the National Housing Institute, City Hall Fellows, Urban Affairs Association, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Shelterforce. He also served as a project scholar for the Public Influences of African-American Churches Project and the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy. Additionally, he contributed a chapter on faith-
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 12 based community development to the 2007 HUD publication Building the Organizations that Build Communities: Strengthening the Capacity of Faith- and Community-Based Development Organizations. 23 Author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America, his current book project is Prisoners of Democracy, a study of the politics, policies, and attitudes that diminish the citizenship of felons in the United States. 24 For 2008 DDRG recipient Dr. Kristie A. Thomas, her role as an assistant professor at Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston, Massachusetts, allows her to continue educating others in her main research and practice interests—intimate partner violence, women’s homelessness, shelter service delivery, and community practice. She is particularly interested in the relationship between intimate partner violence and housing, due largely to her experiences as a case manager at a battered women’s shelter and as a community organizer for affordable housing. These experiences informed her dissertation work, which focused on battered women’s patterns of and risk factors for shelter use. Her current research activities include building upon the finding s of her dissertation and collaborating on evaluation projects with local domestic violence providers. Prior to joining the Simmons faculty, Dr. Thomas served as the assistant director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and as a research consultant at the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women. 25 From the intricacies of mega-complex infrastructure to the personal impact of intimate partner violence, DDRG recipients are moving forward multifarious lines of discourse and research in institutions of higher education across the nation, encouraging all varieties of examination among students and colleagues alike. Even more encouraging is the fact that many of these former DDRG recipients have gone on to sponsor the work of applicants to the DDRG program. There can be no greater compliment to the legacy of the DDRG program than this first-person acknowledgement of the program’s worth.
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 13 Conclusion When OUP first implemented its DDRG program, its original vision was to help encourage a continued interest in fields of doctoral study that would contribute to HUD’s housing and community development policy efforts. What transpired throughout the program’s 17 years was that OUP not only met this vision, but also ultimately succeeded in supporting the efforts of some of the most influential contributors to modern urban research efforts. The Office’s grantees continue to impact and influence policy, lead key research initiatives, assist communities in analysis and evaluation, and even ensure that the work they care so deeply for now will be carried on by new generations of scholars, trained by them. From public to private sector, from government to nonprofits, and from boardrooms to classrooms, OUP’s DDRG recipients prove that there is no limit to the returns on the Office’s investment into the future of urban scholarship.
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 15 Appendix: DDRG Grantees, 1994–2011 1994 Grantees Frank D. Beck Dissertation School: Pennsylvania State University Dissertation Title: Human Ecology, Pro-Growth Effort, and Community Development: The Case of Enterprise Zones (Tax Incentives, Economic Development) Cynthia Bogard Dissertation School: State University of New York at Stony Brook Dissertation Title: No Place Like Home: Rehousing Homeless Families in an Age of Declining “Family Values” Sandra Edmonds Crewe Dissertation School: Howard University Dissertation Title: Unchallenged and Unmotivated: An Ethnographic Study of Sanctioned Welfare Reform Recipients in Federally Subsidized Housing Christopher Zigmund Galbraith Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: Old Houses Never Die: Assessing the Effectiveness of Filtering as a Low-Income Housing Policy Taeil Kim Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University Dissertation Title: Place or Person? A Labor Market Analysis of Central-City Poverty Max Lu Dissertation School: Indiana University Dissertation Title: Decisionmaking Analysis of Household Mobility and Migration in the United States, 1985–89 J. Jeff McConnell Dissertation School: State University of New York at Stony Brook Dissertation Title: The Social Establishment of Homelessness: Social Policy and Individual Experience in the Development of a Social Problem Wendy S. Meister Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dissertation Title: Creating Neighborhoods: Physical Environment, Resident Involvement, and Crime at a Revitalized Housing Project Reynold F. Nesiba Dissertation School: University of Notre Dame Dissertation Title: Interstate Banking and Community Reinvestment: An Evaluation of How Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Influenced Residential Lending Patterns in St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1985–93
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 16 Zeynep Önder Dissertation School: Co rnell University Dissertation Title: Public Policy Issues Related to FHA Financing: FHA Borrowers, FHA Loan Limit, and Homeownership Nicolas O. Rockler Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: Regional Economic Performance and Public Infrastructure Investment Lisa Servon Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Urban Poverty Policy: Alternative Credit, Poverty Alleviation, and Economic Development in U.S. Inner Cities Michael A. Stoll Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: The Relative Importance of Space and Race in Urban Young Adult Labor Markets Camille Zubrinsky Charles Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation Title: I Have Always Wanted to Have a Neighbor, Just Like You: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of Angels 1995 Grantees Sheila Crowley Dissertation School: Virginia Commonwealth University Dissertation Title: A Constructivist Inquiry of the Interpretation of Federal Housing Policy In and Among Three Entitlement Jurisdictions William H. Dozier Dissertation School: Western Michigan University Dissertation Title: The Role of Race in the Perpetuation of Inadequate Housing Bradley R. Entner Wright Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertation Title: Pathways Off the Streets: Homeless People and Their Use of Resources Eric Fure-Slocum Dissertation School: University of Iowa Dissertation Title: The Challenge of the Working-Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937–52 Karen J. Gibson Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Income, Race, and Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Poverty Concentration on White and Black Neighborhoods in the Detroit and Pittsburgh Metropolitan Areas Ingrid Gould Ellen Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Changing Prospects for Stable Racial Integration
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 17 Catherine Hill Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Re-Use of Former Military Bases: An Evaluation of Four Converted Naval Bases Neil Kraus Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York Dissertation Title: Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1935–95 Theresa J. Mah Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Buying Into the Middle Class: Residential Segregation and Racial Formation in the United States, 1920–64 Anthony Pennington-Cross Dissertation School: The George Washington University Dissertation Title: Simultaneous Equations Model of Metropolitan Area Development and Spatial Interaction Jessica Pitt Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Towards Comprehensive Community Development Practices: The Responses of Community Development Corporations Yodan Y. Rofe Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: The Usefulness of “Neighborhood Experience Maps” As a Tool in City Planning and Urban Design Donna Rubens Dissertation School: State University of New York at Buffalo Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Organization of Care in a Transitional Housing Project for Pregnant and Parenting Teens: Program and Policy Implications Thomas W. Sanchez Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: Equity Implications and Impacts of Personal Transportation Benefits on Urban Form 1996 Grantees Susan Baer Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park Dissertation Title: Gentrification and the Role of Community Organizations in Preventing African-American Displacement Victoria Basolo Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Housing Policy in the Local Political Economy: Understanding the Support for Affordable Housing Programs in Cities Liesette N. Brunson Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Title: Resident Appropriation of Defensible Space in Public Housing: Implications for Safety and Community
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 18 Reid Cramer Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: Local Economic Development Planning in Low-Income America: The Implementation of the Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program Dale A. Darrow Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dissertation Title: An Analysis of the Demographic and Developmental Impacts of Central-City Rail Transit Stations James R. Elliott Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-Century America Margaret Etukudo Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago Dissertation Title: Analysis of Small and Microenterprise Programs: Implications for Urban Economic Development Policy Hongmian Gong Dissertation School: University of Georgia Dissertation Title: Location Analysis of Business and Professional Services in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1977–92 Craig Gundersen Dissertation School: University of California at Riverside Dissertation Title: Direct Measures of Poverty and Well-Being: A Theoretical Framework and an Application to Housing Poverty in the United States Seong Woo Lee Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Models of Homeownership: Immigrants’ Assimilation, Structural Type, and Metropolitan Contextual Effects on Homeownership Attainment Atiya Mahmood Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dissertation Title: Work and Home Boundaries: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Women’s Live-Work Environments Michael T. Maly Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Select U.S. Urban Neighborhoods, 1980 to 1990 Marc J. Perry Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: Using Geo-Demographic Methods for Improving Small-Area Population and Housing Unit Estimates Laxmi Ramasubramanian Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dissertation Title: Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Impacts and Influence of Information Technologies Janet L. Smith Dissertation School: Cleveland State University Dissertation Title: Interpreting Neighborhood Change
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 19 1997 Grantees Raisa Bahchieva Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Racial Differences in Housing Search Behavior Cecilia Castelino Dissertation School: City University of New York Graduate Center Dissertation Title: Staying Put and Evicting the Batterer: Institutional and Non-Institutional Strategies Some Battered Women Use Karen Chapple Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Paths to Employment: The Role of Social Networks and Space for Women on Welfare in San Francisco Kathyrn M. Doherty Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park Dissertation Title: Emerging Patterns of Housing, Community, and Local Governance: The Case of Private Homeowners Associations Larissa Larsen Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Title: A Comparison of Chicago’s Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents’ Psychological Self-Evaluations Lisa E. McGuire Dissertation School: Case Western Reserve University Dissertation Title: Welfare-to-Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications of the Transtheoretical Model June Y. Park Dissertation School: Columbia University Dissertation Title: A New Understanding of Our Nation’s Rising Homeless Rates and Low-Rent Housing Vacancy Rates Becky Pettit Dissertation School: Princeton University Dissertation Title: Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor Kenneth E. Poole Dissertation School: George Mason University Dissertation Title: The Role of Practitioner Networks in the Successful Diffusion and Implementation of Policy Innovations: Lessons From Enterprise Zone Experiences Vera Prosper Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York Dissertation Title: Tenant Aging in Public and Publicly Assisted Multifamily Housing and Its Public Policy Implications for Housing and Long-Term Care Robert Self Dissertation School: University of Washington Dissertation Title: Shifting Ground in Metropolitan America: Class, Race, and Power in Oakland and the East Bay, 1945–77
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 20 Kala Seetharam Sridhar Dissertation School: The Ohio State University Dissertation Title: Urban Economic Development in America: Evidence From Enterprise Zones Patricia Stern Smallacombe Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Why Do They Stay? Rootedness and Isolation in an Inner-City White Neighborhood Scott Susin Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Housing the Poor Marc A. Wallace Dissertation School: American University Dissertation Title: The Benefits of Scarcity: An Analysis of the Windfall Gains From Limited Recipients in Competitive Grant Programs Jenell Williams Paris Dissertation School: American University Dissertation Title: African-American Women’s Activism and Ghetto Formation in Washington, D.C. Sean Zielenbach Dissertation School: Northwestern University Dissertation Title: The Art of Revitalization: Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods 1998 Grantees Mahyar Arefi Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Jump-Starting Main Street: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI) Karen J. Baehler Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park Dissertation Title: Fair Shares and Formula Fights: A Study of Federal Social Welfare Distribution John Wesley Edwards Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Building the Open City? Residential Mobility and Urban Policy Innovation in the 1970s Rachel Garshick Kleit Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Housing, Social Networks, and Access to Opportunity: The Impact of Living in Scattered-Site and Clustered Public Housing Laura E. Harris Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York Dissertation Title: A Home Is More Than Just a House: A Spatial Analysis of Affordable Housing in Metropolitan America Edward J. Jepson, Jr. Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: The Meaning of Ecosystem Theory to the Planning Profession—An Interpretation and Analysis of Sustainability
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 21 Nicole Marwell Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Social Networks and Social Capital as Resources for Neighborhood Revitalization: Volume One and Two Ellen A. Merry Dissertation School: University of Virginia Dissertation Title: The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand Gabriella Modan Dissertation School: Georgetown University Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Neighborhood Identity: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Place in a U.S. Multiethnic Neighborhood Kristopher Rengert Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: The Effect of Minority Ownership of Financial Institutions on Mortgage Lending to Minority and Lower Income Home Seekers: A Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis Julia Sass Rubin Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Exploring the Origins and Behavior of Organizations Operating on the Institutional Cusp : The Case of Community Development Venture Capital Brian Schmitt Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Do Community Reinvestment Act Agreements Work? Mara S. Sidney Dissertation School: University of Colorado at Boulder Dissertation Title: Linking National Policy Designs and Local Action: A Comparison of Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Policies Theresa Y. Singleton Dissertation School: Temple University Dissertation Title: Reinvesting in Community: The Organizational Impacts of Community Reinvestment Lois A. Stanley Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: How Context Influences Local Economic Development: Strategies for Military Base Redevelopment in the 1990s 1999 Grantees Sandra L. Barnes Dissertation School: Georgia State University Dissertation Title: Positive Homeownership Attitudes, Homeownership Behavior, and Neighborhood Ties in Poor Urban Neighborhoods Daniele Bondonio Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University Dissertation Title: Do Geographically Targeted Development Incentives Revitalize Communities? Evidence From the State Enterprise Zone Programs
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 22 Sherri Lawson Clark Dissertation School: American University Dissertation Title: Policy, Perceptions, and Place: An Ethnography of the Complexities of Implementing a Federal Housing Program Kelly J. Clifton Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: Local Access, Non-Work Travel, and Survival Tactics In Low-Income Neighborhoods Sarah S. Gardner Dissertation School: City University of New York Dissertation Title: Green Visions for Brownfields: Policy Coalitions for Urban Redevelopment Roger B. Hammer Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: The Geography of Residential and Employment Inequality: Workplace and Home Place in Urban Space Lezlee Hinesmon-Matthews Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation Title: Faith-Based Versus Secular Approaches to Community Development in African-American Communities: The Case of Los Angeles Jerome Hodos Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Second Cities: Globalization, Institutions, and Political Culture in Struggling Regions Thomas Kamber Dissertation School: City University of New York Dissertation Title: Local Politics and Housing Vouchers Lucie Laurian Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Mobilization as a Response to Risk Perceptions and Declines in Housing Values in Communities Around Superfund Sites Michael Leo Owens Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York Dissertation Title: Pulpits and Policy: The Politics of Black Church-Based Community Development in New York City, 1980–2000 Stephanie Post Dissertation School: Rice University Dissertation Title: Cities and Their Suburbs: “Go Along to Get Along” Stefan Rayer Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: The Incorporation of Peripheral Areas in Metropolises Undergoing Restructuring Mary Gail Snyder Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Informal Housing: Shelter Strategies and Resources Among Low-Income Households
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 23 Lisa A. Sutherland Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Creating Healthy Communities One Byte at a Time Amy Winston Dissertation School: Purdue University Dissertation Title: Factions and Corporate Political Strategies in Harlan County, Kentucky: Implications for Community Sustainability 2000 Grantees John Baranski Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation Title: Making Public Housing in San Francisco: Liberalism, Social Prejudice, and Social Activism, 1906–76 Susan K. Brown Dissertation School: University of Washington Dissertation Title: Isolation and the Enclave: The Presence and Variety of Strong Ties Among Immigrants Alvaro Cortes Dissertation School: Wayne State University Dissertation Title: The Impact of Urban Universities on Neighborhood Housing Markets: University Decisions and Non-Decisions Spencer M. Cowan Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: The Impact of Statewide Inclusionary Land-Use Laws on the Supply and Distribution of Housing for Lower Income Households Lynne M. Dearborn Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dissertation Title: Immigrant Culture and Housing Provision, Examining the Nexus: A Case Study of the ACTS Landmark Housing Program and Its Hmong Participants David Eldridge Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: The Making of a Courtroom: Landlord-Tenant Trials in Philadelphia’s Municipal Court Ajay Garde Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: New Urbanism and Sustainable Growth: The Making of a Design Paradigm and Public Policy Jennifer Glanville Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Ties and Trust: Understanding How Social Capital Operates in Neighborhoods Judith Grant Long Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies for Major League Sports Facilities
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 24 Joe Grengs Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Transit Turning Inside Out: Federal Transportation Policy and Inner-City Accessibility During the ISTEA Years Ed Hamlyn Dissertation School: University of Texas at El Paso Dissertation Title: The Impact of Climate Change on the Upper Rio Grande Basin Andrew Helms Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Title: The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies Amy Hillier Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Redlining and the Homeowners’ Loan Corporation Jennifer Johnson Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: Finding Work In the City William H. Lockhart Dissertation School: University of Virginia Dissertation Title: Getting Saved From Poverty: Religion in Poverty-to-Work Programs Ellen Myerson Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: HOME Rental Projects: Influence of Financing and Organizational Type on Project Efficiency, Project Location, and Tenants Served Marla Nelson Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Producer Services, Agglomeration Economies, and Intra-Metropolitan Location: The Public Accounting Industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul Regions Sharon I. O’Donnell Dissertation School: University of Houston Dissertation Title: Quality Decisions: A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Homeownership Jennifer Pashup Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: Who Goes, Who Stays, and How Long-Term Residents Cope Melina Patterson Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Learning Places: Community Schools in Community Development Karen Pence Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: Essays on Government Policy and Household Financial Decisions
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 25 Hollie Person Lund Dissertation School: Portland State University Dissertation Title: Breaking Down Barriers to Community Life: Social Contact, Local Travel, and Community Sentiment and Cohesion in Suburban Neighborhoods Randal Pinkett Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: Creating Community Connections, Sociocultural Constructionism, and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community Building Eileen A. Robertson-Rehberg Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Federal Funding and Community Development: An Evaluation of the Strategic Uses of Small Cities' Community Development Block Grants in Upstate New York Juan Sandoval Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: The Geography of Opportunity and Vulnerability: State TANF Policy, Welfare Dependency, and the Diversity of Welfare Caseloads Laura Solitare Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Public Participation in Brownfields Redevelopment in Residential Neighborhoods Jill Strube Dissertation School: Florida International University Dissertation Title: Fiscal and Organizational Determinants of Transportation Outcomes: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Sustainability Factors Rainer vom Hofe Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: A Regional Computable General Equilibrium Model for HUD Policy Analysis: The Case of New York State Malik Watkins Dissertation School: The Ohio State University Dissertation Title: Faith-/Community-Based Organizations and the Political Process Model: Social Mobilization as an Explanation for Member Participation in Community Building Laura Wolf-Powers Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: The Role of Labor Market Intermediaries in Promoting Employment Access and Mobility: A Supply- and Demand-Side Approach 2001 Grantees Jennifer Altman Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Matching University Resources to Community Needs: Case Studies of University-Community Partnerships
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 26 LaTanya Brown Dissertation School: Howard University Dissertation Title: A Study to Determine if HOPE VI Sites Influence Area Housing Susan Clampet-Lundquist Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Hope or Harm: Deconcentration and the Welfare of Families in Public Housing Sarah Coffin Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: The Brownfields Reality Check: A Study of Land Value and the Effects of Brownfields on the Locations of Section 8 Housing Silvia Dominguez Dissertation School: Boston University Dissertation Title: Latina Immigrants in Public Housing: Race Relations, Social Networks, and Access to Services Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine Dissertation Title: Valuation of Metropolitan Quality of Life in Wages and Rents Leslie Frank Dissertation School: University of Connecticut Dissertation Title: “I Never Really Took Much Notice”: The FHA and Suburbanization in the Providence Metropolitan Area, 1934–55 Falan Guan Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Multi-Worker Households Residential Location Choices—A Disaggregate Comparative Approach Carolina Katz Reid Dissertation School: University of Washington Dissertation Title: Achieving the American Dream? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Homeownership Experiences of Low-Income Families Jibum Kim Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Community Context and the Lives of Korean-American Immigrant Elderly Richard W. McConaghy Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Boston Dissertation Title: Mortality, Moveout, and Refinancing as Factors in HECM Reverse Mortgage Payoffs Jonathan Q. Morgan Dissertation School: North Carolina State University Dissertation Title: The Role of Regional Industry Clusters in Urban Economic Development: An Analysis of Process and Performance Howard Nemon Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Community Economic Development in Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: A Case Study of the Philadelphia Empowerment Zone
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 27 Mathew Reed Dis sertation School: Northwestern University Dissertation Title: Moving Out: Section 8 and Public Housing Relocation in Chicago Daniel A. Sandoval Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Rising Tide, Sinking Boats: The Consequences of Economic Restructuring and Racial Segregation for Connecticut’s Inner-City Poor Kai A. Schafft Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Tracking Incidence of Residential Mobility Among Poor Families in Upstate New York Through Public School Enrollments: Economic Change, Housing Insecurity, and “Poverty Migration” Susan Thering Dissertation School: State University of New York Dissertation Title: Documenting the Community Capacity-Building Benefits of Public Participation in Community Design and Planning and Developing Indicators of Community Capacity Zhong Yi Tong Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park Dissertation Title: The Impact of Targeted Homeownership Tax Credit Program: Evidence From Washington, D.C. Tien-Chien Tsao Dissertation School: University of Michigan Dissertation Title: New Models for Future Retirement: A Study of College-/University-Linked Retirement Communities Shannon Van Zandt Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Achieving The American Dream: The Impact of Homeownership on Opportunity for Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals Daniel A. Wishnoff Dissertation School: City University of New York Dissertation Title: The Tolerance Point: Race, Public Housing, and the Forest Hills Controversy, 1945–75 2002 Grantees Grigoriy Ardashev Dissertation School: University of Louisville Dissertation Title: Fragmentation, Sprawl, and Economic Development: An Analysis of 331 Metropolitan Areas in the United States Philip Ashton Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Advantage or Disadvantage? The Changing Institutional Landscape of Central-City Mortgage Markets William J. Bartosch Dissertation School: Brandeis University Dissertation Title: Congress, Problems Definition, and Inattentive Publics: An Analysis of Disability Policymaking for Alcoholics and Drug Addicts
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 28 Kim DeFronzo Haselhoff Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine Dissertation Title: The Use of Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside Funds in Southern California: A New Look at Cities and Redistributive Spending Fred Ellerbusch Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: Residential Redevelopment of Brownfields—Is Human Health Being Protected? Todd Gish Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Building Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900–36 Jennifer Gress Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Capital in the Production of Affordable Housing in Orange County, California James Hanlon Dissertation School: University of Kentucky Dissertation Title: Distressed Public Housing and HOPE VI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in Louisville, Kentucky Michael Hollar Dissertation School: The George Washington University Dissertation Title: Central Cities and Suburbs: Economic Rivals or Allies? Eunju Hwang Dissertation School: University of Minnesota Dissertation Title: Desire to Age in Place Among Korean-American Elders in Minnesota Mona Koerner Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: Performance of the Hollow State: State and Local Responses to the Devolution of Affordable Housing David Mainor Dissertation School: Tulane University Dissertation Title: Urban Transformations: Does Inner-City Revitalization Pose a Risk to Neighborhood Cohesion? Martha M. Matsuoka Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation Title: From Neighborhood to Global: Community-Based Regionalism and Sh ifting Concepts of Place in Community and Regional Development Deirdre A. Oakley Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York Dissertation Title: Fallacies of the American Welfare State: The Enduring Response of Community- and Faith- Based Organizations—Homeless Shelters and Relief Services in New York City During the 1920s and 1990s Michele Wakin Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation Title: Documenting the Use of Vehicles as Housing: Towards a More Permanent Solution
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 29 Mark T. Wright Dissertation School: University of Louisville Dissertation Title: Low-Income Housing Tax Credits: Comparing Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Developments in Terms of Cost and Quality Zhou Yu Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Access to Homeownership: Race-Ethnicity, Immigrant Status, and Changing Demographics 2003 Grantees Tiffany Gayle Chenault Dissertation School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dissertation Title: “We Did It for the Kids,” Housing Policies, Race, and Class: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Resident Council in a Public Housing Neighborhood Alexandra M. Curley Dissertation School: Boston University Dissertation Title: HOPE and Housing: The Effects of Relocation on Movers’ Economic Stability, Social Networks, and Health Zaire Dinzey-Flores Dissertation School: University of Michigan Dissertation Title: Fighting Crime, Constructing Segregation: Crime, Housing Policy, and the Social Brands of Puerto Rican Neighborhoods Robert P. Fairbanks II Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Communal Re-Appropriation of Blighted Spaces: Governmentality and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Kensington Recovery House Movement Martin Farnham Dissertation School: University of Michigan Dissertation Title: Essays in Taxation, Aging, and Residential Location Chad R. Farrell Dissertation School: Pennsylvania State University Dissertation Title: Urban Mosaics: Multiracial Diversity and Segregation in the American Metropolis David Greenberg Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: Ways of Contending: Community Organizing and Development in Neighborhood Context Michal Grinstein-Weiss Dissertation School: Washington University Dissertation Title: IDAs for Housing Policy: Analysis of Savings Outcomes and Racial Differences Derek S. Hyra Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Race, Politics, and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 30 Tatjana Meschede Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts Boston Dissertation Title: Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Homeless Street Dwellers: The Impact of Health and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment Juris Milestone Dissertation School: Temple University Dissertation Title: Universities, Cities, Design, and Development: An Anthropology of Aesthetic Expertise Joseph B. Nichols Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park Dissertation Title: Mortgage Contracts and the Definition Of and Demand For Housing Wealth Martha Trenna Valado Dissertation School: University of Arizona Dissertation Title: Factors Affecting Homeless People’s Perception and Use of Urban Space Oswaldo Urdapilleta Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: A Policy Model of Multiple Safety Net Program Participation and Labor Supply Qingfang Wang Dissertation School: University of Georgia Dissertation Title: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Labor Market Segmentation in the United States Yizhao Yang Dissertation School: Cornell University Dissertation Title: Physical Form and Neighborhood Satisfaction: Evidence From the American Housing Survey 2004 Grantees James Armstrong Dissertation School : Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dissertation Title: Lessons Drawn From Local Housing Authorities: Characteristics of Survival and Success Andrew Aurand Dissertation School: University of Pittsburgh Dissertation Title: Is Smart Growth Smart for Low-Income Households: A Study of the Impact of Four Smart Growth Principles on the Supply of Affordable Housing Lisa K. Bates Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: A Housing Submarket Approach to Neighborhood Revitalization Planning: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Justifications Gregory S. Burge Dissertation School: Florida State University Dissertation Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Impact Fees on the Affordability of Starter Homes George R. Carter III Dissertation School: University of Michigan Dissertation Title: From Exclusion to Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing, and Homelessness
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 31 Kristen B. Crossney Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: The Unintended Consequence of Predatory Lending: An Examination of Mortgage Lending in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Matthew Cuddy Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Dissertation Title: A Practical Method for Developing Context-Sensitive Residential Parking Standards Arielle Goldberg Dissertation School: City University of New York Dissertation Title: In Search of the Public Good: Agenda Setting and Policy Formulation for Post-9/11 New York City Yan Y. Lee Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation Title: Government Intervention in Mortgage Credit Markets: Increases in Lending to Minority and Low-Income Communities, Reductions in Neighborhood Crime From Homeownership, and Potential Efficiency Gains for Banks From Regulation Michael McQuarrie Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: From Backyard Revolution to Neoliberalism: Community Development, Civil Society, and the American Third Way Criseida Navarro-Diaz Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: Economic Advancement or Social Exclusion? Less-Educated Workers, Costs-of-Living, and Migration in High-Tech Regions Pamela Ann Rogers Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: Intraurban Mobility Patterns of Mexican Immigrants in Emerging Gateways Sapna Swaroop Dissertation School: University of Michigan Dissertation Title: The Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration Mark Tigan Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Amherst Dissertation Title: Citizen Participation in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Programs: From the Great Society to the New Federalism Michael Wenz Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago Dissertation Title: Casino Gambling and Economic Development Duan Zhuang Dissertation School: University of Southern California Dissertation Title: Redlining Revisited: Spatial Dependence and Neighborhood Effects in Mortgage Lending
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 32 2005 Grantees Ryan Allen Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: “Sometimes It’s Hard Here to Call Someone to Ask for Help”: Social Capital in a Refugee Community in Portland, Maine Shirley Y. Chao Dissertation School: Tufts University Dissertation Title: Optimizing Food and Nutrition Services in Assisted Living Facilities for Older Adults: The FANCI (Food And Nutrition Care Indicators) Study Scott E. Davis Dissertation School: University of Virginia Dissertation Title: A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor Supply Keri-Nicole Dillman Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: Ownership and Outcomes: Investigating Nonprofit and For-Profit Subsidized Housing Developers Nicole Esparza Dissertation School: Princeton University Dissertation Title: Shelters, Soup Kitchens, and Supportive Housing: An Open Systems Analysis of the Field of Homeless Assistance Organizations Catherine Fennell Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: The Last Project Standing: Building an Ethics for a City Without Public Housing Michele A. Gilbert Dissertation School: Kent State University Dissertation Title: Race, Concentrated Poverty, and Policy: Empowerment Zones in Distressed Urban Areas George Hobor Dissertation School: University of Arizona Dissertation Title: Post-Industrial Pathways: The Economic Reorganization of the Urban Rust Belt Matthew D. Marr Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities, Los Angeles and Tokyo Patrick McNamara Dissertation School: University of Nebraska at Omaha Dissertation Title: Collaborative Success and Community Culture: Cross-Sectoral Partnerships Addressing Homelessness in Omaha and Portland Jaren C. Pope Dissertation School: North Carolina State University Dissertation Title: Limited Attention, Asymmetric Information, and the Hedonic Model
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 33 Jane Rongerude Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: The Sorted City: San Francisco, Hope SF, and the Redevelopment of Public Housing Jenny Schuetz Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multifamily Housing in Massachusetts Gretchen E.L. Suess Dissertation School: Temple University Dissertation Title: Beyond School Walls: The Politics of Community and Place in Two Philadelphia Neighborhoods Barbra Teater Dissertation School: The Ohio State University Dissertation Title: Residential Mobility and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Factors Predicting Mobility and the Residential Decisionmaking Process of Recipients Griff Tester Dissertation School: The Ohio State University Dissertation Title: The Relational and Status Foundation of Gender Discrimination in Housing Gretchen Weismann Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissertation Title: The Relative Risk: Parenting, Poverty, and Peers in the Three-City Study of Moving Opportunity 2007 Grantees Debbie Becher Dissertation School: Princeton University Dissertation Title: Valuing Property: Eminent Domain for Urban Redevelopment, Philadelphia 1992–2007 Matthew Desmond Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: Eviction and the Reproduction of Poverty Yongjun Shin Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison Dissertation Title: Communication Ecology and Urban Politics: The Case of Local Low-Income Housing Policy Diana L. Karafin Dissertation School: The Ohio State University Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Integration in U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhoods: Patterns, Complexities, and Consequences Julia Koschinsky Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Title: Modeling Spatial Spillover Effects From Rental to Owner Housing: The Case of Seattle David J. Madden Dissertation School: Columbia University Dissertation Title: Urbanism in Pieces: Publics and Power in Urban Development
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 34 Charles L. Nier Dissertation School: Temple University Dissertation Title: Racial Financial Institutions, Credit Discrimination, and African-American Homeownership in Philadelphia, 1880–60 Evelyn M. Perry Dissertation School: Indiana University Dissertation Title: Live and Let Live: Negotiating Difference in a Diverse Urban Neighborhood Charlene M. Reiss Dissertation School: North Carolina State University Dissertation Title: Measuring Client Participation in Organizational Decisionmaking: A Survey of Agencies Providing Emergency and Temporary Shelter Jenna (Rosie) Tighe Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin Dissertation Title: Opposition to Affordable Housing: How Perceptions of Race and Poverty Influence Views Andrée Tremoulet Dissertation School: Portland State University Dissertation Title: Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon Anita L. Zuberi Dissertation School: Northwestern University Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Safety and Moving to Opportunity: Understanding Gender and Life Course Differences Using a Mixed-Methods Approach 2008 Grantees Meghan A. Burke Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago Dissertation Title: Active Members of Diverse Communities: Race and the Doing of Diversity Barbara Harris Combs Dissertation School: Georgia State University Dissertation Title: The Ties That Bind: The Role of Place in Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, and Discord in Two Historic, Black-Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods Courtney Cronley Dissertation School: University of Tennessee Dissertation Title: www.homeless.org/culture: A Cross-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Technology Use Among Homeless Service Providers Martha M. Galvez Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: Defining “Choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: The Role of Market Constraints and Household Preferences in Location Outcomes Timothy J. Haney Dissertation School: University of Oregon Dissertation Title: Off to the (Labor) Market: Women, Work, and Welfare Reform in 21st Century American Cities
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 35 Richard Koenig Dissertation School: Southern New Hampshire University Dissertation Title: Improving Tenants’ Lives Through Affordable Rental Housing: Quality-of-Life Impacts of Five Capitals by Developer and Location Constantine E. Kontokosta Dissertation School: Columbia University Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Inclusionary Zoning: Adoption, Implementation, and Neighborhood Effects Amanda J. Lehning Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Title: Local Government Innovation Creating Aging-Friendly Communities: A Strategy for Aging in Place Rachel Meltzer Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: Public Goods, Private Solutions: Essays on Private Governments and the Supplementation of Public Services Jonathan S. Spader Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: Implications of Risk-Based Pricing for Affordable Homeownership and Community Reinvestment Goals Kristie A. Thomas Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: Homelessness and Domestic Violence: Examining Patterns of Shelter Use and Barriers to Permanent Housing Danielle Wallace Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Individual Perceptions, Neighborhoods, and Disorder Julia M. Wesley Dissertation School: University of Illinois Dissertation Title: Revivals Among the Urban Poor: A Look at Civic Participation and Collective Efficacy in Churches 2009 Grantees Len Albright Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Community Social Organization and the Integration of Affordable Housing Residents in a Suburban New Jersey Community Suzanne Lanyi Charles Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Suburban Gentrification: Residential Redevelopment and Neighborhood Change, A Case Study of the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–10
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 36 Andrew J. Greenlee Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago Dissertation Title: A Relational Analysis of Mobility in Illinois’ Housing Choice Voucher Program Michael C. Lens Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: Estimating the Spatial Relationships Between Subsidized Housing and Crime Brian McCabe Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: Are Homeowners Better Citizens? Community Engagement, Civic Participation, and the American Dream Kelly Mills-Dick Dissertation School: Boston University Dissertation Title: Voices From the Street: Exploring How Older Adults and Outreach Workers Define and Mitigate Problems Associated With Urban Elder Homelessness Alexandra K. Murphy Dissertation School: Princeton University Dissertation Title: The Social Organization of Black Suburban Poverty: An Ethnographic Community Study Michael Powe Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Loft Living in Skid Row: Policies, Plans, and Everyday Practices in a Distressed Neighborhood Richard J. Smith Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship in Federal Community Development Programs 2010 Grantees Jocelyn Apicello Dissertation School: Columbia University Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Healthy Habitats in New York City: 1990 to Present Justin Betz Dissertation School: Northeastern University Dissertation Title: Explaining Racial Differences in Housing Choice Voucher Wait Times Lynette K. Boswell Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park Dissertation Title: Do Neighborhood Housing Market Typologies Matter? Measuring the Impact of the HOME Partnership Investment Program in Baltimore, Maryland James Connolly Dissertation School: Columbia University Dissertation Title: Processes of Institutional Change in Urban Environmental Policy Corina Graif Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects, Spatial Embeddedness, and Inequality in the Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 37 Catherine Guimond Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Contested Renewal: The Rebuilding of the South Bronx Keren Horn Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Household Residential Decisions William Larson Dissertation School: The George Washington University Dissertation Title: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Forecasting House Prices: A Post-Crisis Reassessment Wanda Liebermann Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: Body Building: Architectural Narratives of Ability and Disability Anne Martin Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: After Foreclosure: The Social and Spatial Reconstruction of Everyday Lives in the San Francisco Bay Area Abbilyn M. Miller Dissertation School: University of Illinois Dissertation Title: Determining Critical Factors in Community-Level Planning of Homeless Service Projects Benjamin Roth Dissertation School: University of Chicago Dissertation Title: Immigration Integration in Two Chicago Suburbs: Barriers and Strategies Among the Mexican Second Generation Jamie Taylor Dissertation School: The New School Dissertation Title: Housing Assistance as a Work Support for Households Experiencing Homelessness Hannah Thomas Dissertation School: Brandeis University Dissertation Title: Foreclosure Sales Through the Eyes of Real Estate Agents in Boston: An Institutional Ethnography Catherine M. Vu Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Factors Associated With Ethnic Minority Human Service Utilization: A Community and Organizational Analysis Laurie Walker Dissertation School: Colorado Seminary, University of Denver Dissertation Title: Public Housing Resident Engagement and Transition Alyssa Whitby Chamberlain Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Community Change and Recidivism: The Interrelationship Between Neighborhood Ecology and Prisoner Reintegration
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 38 2011 Grantees Mary Ellen Brown Dissertation School: Louisiana State University Dissertation Title: Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighbo rhoods Bell Clement Dissertation School: The George Washington University Dissertation Title: Creative Federalism, Empowered Citizens: Shaping the Great Society City Michael Gedal Dissertation School: New York University Dissertation Title: Housing Affordability, the Holdout Problem, and Land-Use Regulations Hye-Sung Han Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation Title: The Impacts Abandoned Properties Impose Upon Neighborhoods Megan Heckert Dissertation School: Temple University Dissertation Title: The Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice Impacts of Greening Vacant Lots: An Integrated Spatial Assessment of Urban Revitalization and Sustainability Outcomes Julie Hilvers Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Satisfaction and Mobility Patterns Among the Currently and Formerly Homeless: A Study of Chicago’s Residential Homelessness System Nancy Hood Dissertation School: The Ohio State University Dissertation Title: Smoke-Free Policies in Subsidized Housing Tanja Kubas-Meyer Dissertation School: Brandeis University Dissertation Title: Impact of Rental Housing on Asset Development: Low-Income Female-Headed Households Carrie Makarewicz Dissertation School: University of California Dissertation Title: Examining the Influence of the Urban Environment on Parent’s Time and Resources for Engagement in Their Children’s Learning Carrie E. Menendez Dissertation School: The University of Illinois at Chicago Dissertation Title: Assessing the Role of Universities as Place-Based Institutions: Developing Uniform Metrics of Engagement Reuben Miller Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago Dissertation Title: Halfway Home: An Ethnographic Study of Ex-Offender Community Reintegration
Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship 39 Kelly Owens Dissertation School: University of New Orleans Dissertation Title: Examining Social Relations in Mixed-Income Communities: An Examination of Individual Processes and Social Mechanisms that Shape Neighbor Interaction Kathleen Powell Dissertation School: University of Maryland Baltimore Dissertation Title: In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: Neighborhood Relations in a College Town Darrel Ramsey-Musolf Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of Municipal Effort to Provide Low-Income Housing Eva Rosen Dissertation School: Harvard University Dissertation Title: The End of Poverty, or the Emergence of the Horizontal Ghetto? Post-Public Housing, Spatial Concentration and Young Adult Transition in Baltimore Amy Starecheski Dissertation School: City University of New York Dissertation Title: From Squatters to Homeowners: Civic Engagement, Property, and Social Networks in a Time of Crisis Karen G. Williams Dissertation School: City University of New York Dissertation Title: From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States