Housing Affordability | Penn IUR

News July 1, 2024 Is this European city a model for Philadelphia’s affordable housing? One Council member thinks so. Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Vincent Reina was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer about public housing. Housing

News June 24, 2024 Higher Rates Were Supposed to Lower Housing Prices. It Isn't Working. Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter wrote about the impact of interest rate changes on housing markets for Barron's. Housing

Mar 21 2024 Past Event Leveling the Field: Combining Proprietary Micro-Level Data with Machine Learning Methods for Housing Justice Research Housing Urban Development

Fellow Anne Fadullon

Founding Principal, MAKE Advisory Services, LLC

Urban Development Housing + 1

Sep 14 2023 Past Event Advancing Homeownership Opportunity: An Update on Recent Innovations Housing

Fellow Lei Ding

Community Development Research Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Benjamin (Benji) Smith

PhD Candidate in Wharton's Applied Economics Program

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Article May 9, 2023 The Dynamics of Urban Development: Evidence from Land Use Reform in New York Housing Urban Development

Research Paper December 1, 2022 Policy Brief: How Remote Work is Affecting Real Estate Markets Work from home (wfh) disrupted real estate markets globally during the pandemic and continues to do so. Geographic shifts in the use of space are already causing a repricing of commercial and residential real estate. Longterm, the increasing prevalence of remote work is likely to result in more dispersed urban settlement patterns. Susan Wachter Housing State & Local Finance

Sep 09 2022 Past Event Kyung-Hwan Kim: Urbanization, Quality of Life, and Affordable Housing Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

Jul 12 2022 Past Event State and Local Programs to Advance Homeownership Opportunity to Narrow Racial Disparities Housing

Publication May 26, 2022 Mismeasuring Risk: The Welfare Effects of Flood Risk Information Rapidly improving data and models are giving homeowners more information about their disaster risk while also increasing insurance premiums for the highest risk homes. I study the economic consequences of using better flood risk models to more accurately identify and price flood insurance for high-risk homes. State & Local Finance

Article May 26, 2022 The Financial Burdens of Property Taxes: Evidence from Philadelphia Property taxes are an essential source of revenue for U.S. local governments, generating more than $547 billion in 2018. While local elected officials use these taxes to fund public goods and services, their constituents find them burdensome. Housing State & Local Finance

May 17 2022 Past Event Federal Programs to Advance Homeownership Opportunity to Narrow Racial Disparities Housing

Fellow Henry Cisneros

Chairman and Co-Founder, American Triple I Partners Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Article November 17, 2021 Penn IUR's Research for South Korea Penn IUR is working with the Urban Sustainability Laboratory at the Washington-based Wilson Center, a convenor of comparative research with U.S and South Korean scholars and practitioners involving the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) and the Land and Housing Institute (LHI) of South Korea. Housing Urban Development

Fellow Nora Fitzpatrick

Chief of Staff, Communications & Outreach Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Research Paper July 13, 2021 5th Guangzhou Award Report on Local Implementation of SDGs Climate Change & Resilience Housing + 1

Article May 19, 2021 Housing Search and Rental Market Intermediation Housing State & Local Finance

Article May 19, 2021 Essays in Urban and Public Economics State & Local Finance

Don’t miss the latest from Penn IUR. Subscribe to Urban Link.

Providing expert commentary on urban topics and highlighting Penn IUR's research in the context of pressing urban issues.

Urban Link Celebrating 20 Years of Urban Research | Dennis Culhane

Mayor Anne Hidalgo speaking in Paris

Urban Link SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance Marks Year of Progress

Andrew Melnik, Lauren Sorkin, Jaime Pumarejo at Urban Leadership Award Ceremony

Urban Link Celebrating 2024 Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize Winners for Resilience