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MUP - City and Community Planning - ChecksheetsMUP: City and Community Planning I. DEGREE CORE REQUIREMENTS [18 CREDITS] Students must complete or waive the following courses: …
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Moving matters: The causal effect of moving schools on student performanceAmy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Sarah A. Cordes …
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Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and AffordabilityGrowing numbers of affordable housing advocates and community members are questioning the premise that increasing the supply of market-rate housing will result in housing that is more affordable. Economists and other experts who favor increases in supply …
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Subgroup Reporting and School Segregation: An Unhappy Pairing in the No Child Left Behind EquationAmy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Colin Chellman …
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Neighbors and Networks: The Role of Social Interactions on the Residential Choices of Housing Choice Voucher HoldersIngrid Ellen, Michael Suher, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa …
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Do Homeowners Mark to Market? A Comparison of Self-reported and Market-based Home Value Estimates During the Housing Boom and BustThis paper examines homeowners’ self-reported values in the American Housing Survey and the Health and Retirement Study from the start of the recent housing price run-ups through recent price declines. We compare zip code level market-based estimates of …
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Do Vouchers Help Low-Income Households Live in Safer Neighborhoods? Evidence on the Housing Choice Voucher ProgramThis article examines an important potential justification for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, namely, whether participants are able to access safer neighborhoods. Using neighborhood crime and subsidized housing data for 91 large cities, we examined …
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Pathways to Integration: Examining Changes in the Prevalence of Racially Integrated NeighborhoodsFew researchers have studied integrated neighborhoods, yet these neighborhoods offer an important window into broader patterns of segregation. We explore changes in racial integration in recent decades using decennial census tract data from 1990, 2000, …
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The Effect of Immigrant Communities on Foreign-Born Student AchievementThis paper explores the effect of the human capital characteristics of co-ethnic immigrant communities on foreign-born students’ math achievement. We use data on New York City public school foreign-born students from 39 countries merged with census data …
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Panel Explores School-to-Prison PipelineOn November 4, Wagner Education Policy Students Association (WEPSA) brought forward an issue that has yet to make the political agenda. “From Behind Books to Behind Bars” brought together leading advocates against the school-to-prison pipeline, a complex …
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The Secondary Market for Housing Finance in the United States: A Brief OverviewEllen, Ingrid, John Napier Tye, and Mark Willis …
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Comment on ‘The Mediocrity of Government Subsidies to Mixed-Income Housing Projects’Ellen, Ingrid, Gregory Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong …
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American Murder Revisited: Do Housing Vouchers Cause Crime?Potential neighbors often express worries that Housing Choice Voucher holders heighten crime. Yet, no research systematically examines the link between the presence of voucher holders in a neighborhood and crime. Our article aims to do just this, using …
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Do Economically Integrated Neighborhoods Have Economically Integrated Schools?The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy. What do we know about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, …
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Siting, Spillovers, and Segregation: A Re-examination of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit ProgramThe timing of this volume could not be more opportune. It is based on a 2007 conference to honor the work of Karl "Chip" Case, who is renowned for his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy. The chapters analyze risk in the …
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Age of Entry and the High School Performance of Immigrant YouthIn 2005, immigrants exceeded 12% of the US population, with the highest concentrations in large metropolitan areas. While considerable research has focused on how immigrants affect local wages and housing prices, less research has asked how immigrants …
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Why Do Higher Income Households Move Into Low Income Neighborhoods: Pioneering or Thrift?This paper offers several hypotheses about which US higher-income households choose to move into low-income neighbourhoods and why. It first explores whether the probability that a household moves into a relatively low-income neighbourhood (an RLIN move) …
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Neighborhood Crime Exposure Among Housing Choice Voucher HouseholdsEllen, Ingrid, Michael C. Lens, and Katherine O’Regan …
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Does Federally Subsidized Rental Housing Depress Neighborhood Property Values?Few communities welcome federally subsidized rental housing, with one of the most commonly voiced fears being reductions in property values. Yet there is little empirical evidence that subsidized housing depresses neighborhood property values. This paper …
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Racial Segregation in Multiethnic Schools: Adding Immigrants to the AnalysisRacial segregation in America's schools remains persistently and disturbingly high, despite decades of institutional and policy changes. This paper considers one recent change common to many urban school districts - immigration - and examines whether and …
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The External Effects of Place-Based Subsidized HousingPrior research has provided little evidence that subsidized housing investments generate significant external benefits to their neighborhoods. This paper revisits the external effects of subsidized housing, exploring the case of New York City. Relying on …
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Building Homes, Reviving Neighborhoods: Spillovers from Subsidized Construction of Owner-Occupied Housing in New York CityThis article examines the impact of two New York City homeownership programs on surrounding property values. Both programs, Nehemiah Program and the Partnership New Homes program subsidize the construction of affordable owner-occupied homes in distressed …
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Revitalizing Inner-City Neighborhoods: New York City's Ten Year Plan for HousingThis article examines the impact of New York City's Ten-Year Plan on the sale prices of homes in surrounding neighborhoods. Beginning in the mid-1980s, New York City invested $5.1 billion in constructing or rehabilitating over 180,000 units of housing in …
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Housing Production Subsidies and Neighborhood Revitalization: New York City’s Ten Year Capital Plan for HousingA perennial question in housing policy concerns the form that housing assistance should take. Although some argue that housing assistance should be thought of as a form of income support and advocate direct cash grants to needy households, others favor …