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News July 20, 2016 Why the Homeownership Rate Dropped and Where it may Go
News July 20, 2016 Why the Homeownership Rate Dropped and Where it may Go
News June 27, 2016 The Tobin Scholar Newsletter: Shared Prosperity in America's Communities
News June 27, 2016 Populations Bouncing Back Thanks to Urban "Reinvention"
Announcement June 23, 2016 Penn IUR Researchers Find City Populations Are Bouncing Back Thanks to Urban "Reinvention" new white paper just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) finds that after decades of urban decline, U.S. cities are growing again thanks in large part to their transition from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based economy. This shift has allowed cities to “reinvent” themselves as magnets for human capital and centers of innovation.
News June 21, 2016 Penn Gazette: The Election Issues That (Ought to) Matter
News June 21, 2016 Penn Gazette: Health and the City
News June 18, 2016 A Roaring Trade: Chinese tiger mums start a college-town housing boom
News June 15, 2016 Stakeholders, Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda: The General Assembly of Partners Profiled
News June 14, 2016 German Habitat III gathering offers up a vision for ‘Cities of Tomorrow’
News June 14, 2016 Startup aims to curb rental prices through online auctions
News June 10, 2016 Habitat III stakeholders offer vision of broad partnership for sustainable urbanization
News June 8, 2016 Civil society speaks as one in Habitat III process
News June 2, 2016 American Housing Prices Going Big, Again
News May 30, 2016 By one measure, that million-dollar home in San Francisco isn’t as expensive as it seems
News May 24, 2016 REIT Research Desk
News May 20, 2016 How a flower show in Philadelphia led the way in urban ‘greening’
News May 17, 2016 Penn IUR Research Finds Borrowing Constraints Driving Homeownership Declines
News May 16, 2016 UN unveils draft on new urban agenda, sets for quito declaration
News May 15, 2016 Weekly Book List, May 20, 2016
Announcement May 12, 2016 Penn IUR Researchers Find Current Borrowing Constraints Driving Declining Home Ownership Rates A new brief just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) finds that, due to current borrowing constraints, many households are renting out of financial necessity rather than by choice. Further, the report finds that these constraints are underlying declining home ownership rates and instability in the housing market.
News May 11, 2016 Penn Global Seminar Readings and Study Abroad Transport Students to Paris
Announcement May 10, 2016 Congratulations to Graduating Urban-Focused Doctoral Students On May 13, Penn IUR will celebrate four of its graduating Affiliated PhD Students during the annual Penn Urban Doctoral Symposium.
News May 6, 2016 Homeownership Rates Are Falling, And It's Not Just A Millennial Problem
News April 27, 2016 Alphabet’s Next Big Thing: Building a ‘Smart’ City
News April 26, 2016 Brandywine to bring valet parking lot to CBD
News April 26, 2016 Valet-parking lot planned at site of Market St. industrial building
Announcement April 19, 2016 Penn IUR Researchers Find Changing Funding Trends Drive University Innovation In a new report published by the Penn Institute for Urban Research, researchers explore the changing research and development (R&D) funding picture at universities across the country, and report that universities are pursuing innovation and commercialization through new relationships with the private sector.
News April 14, 2016 Tiny Is the New Big: The Next Wave of Space-Defying, Affordable Homes
News April 6, 2016 Why Aren’t New Homes Going Up That Millennials Can Afford?
News April 5, 2016 Are Bespoke Tranche Opportunities Dangerous? They Pose A Risk — Just Not Right Away
News April 4, 2016 In Print: Public Pensions and City Solvency
News April 1, 2016 Unified stakeholder vision on sustainable urbanization lauded, critiqued ahead of Habitat III
Announcement March 29, 2016 Penn IUR Announces Recipients of 12th Annual Urban Leadership Awards The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) is proud to announce the recipients of its 12th annual Urban Leadership Awards, which recognize leaders who are guiding cities toward a sustainable and vibrant future. The 2016 awardees are Angela Glover Blackwell, President & CEO of PolicyLink, and Jeremy Nowak, President of J Nowak and Associates. Penn IUR will honor the work of these exceptional leaders on April 7th at its 12th annual Urban Leadership Forum.
News March 25, 2016 Cities Still In Search of Solutions
News March 22, 2016 Manifesto launched to guide sustainable development worldwide
News March 22, 2016 Penn's new Design Dean talks architecture and Texas gun laws
News March 17, 2016 Students spend spring break in Paris with Penn seminar
News March 16, 2016 How Do You Fight Poverty? With the World's Biggest Flower Show
News March 14, 2016 Colorado's real estate tax rate at the lower end nationally
News March 14, 2016 MARCH 3, 2016 NewsWorks Tonight March 3, 2016
News March 8, 2016 Proposed mechanisms would coordinate post-Habitat III action on urbanization
News March 8, 2016 What happened to all those foreclosed homes?
News March 8, 2016 Planning's women of influence - a quickfire round-up
News March 7, 2016 Could cutting urban blight reduce teen murders?
News February 29, 2016 Which Region Is Poised to See the Most Home Sales?
News February 26, 2016 PennDesign's New Dean
News February 26, 2016 Dean Frederick Steiner leaves UT Austin for Penn Design due to new "campus carry" gun law
News February 26, 2016 Photos: Urban Design Gets People Moving
Announcement February 25, 2016 View the Winning Photos: Urban Health and the Environmental Landscape Photo Contest Winners of Penn IUR 2016 photo contest on urban health and the environmental landscape.

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