• Intergenerational mobility vs. sprawl: Is there a connection?

    To look more closely at the connection between mobility and sprawl, we compared the mobility rates to neighborhood Walk Scores. Our results lend support to Paul Krugman’s hypothesis.Read more

  • HOPE VI and the New Promise of Public Housing

    From Despair to Hope is the story of the transformation of public housing, a story that deeply involves New Urbanism.
    The HOPE VI public housing redevelopment program has cost the federal government nearly $6 billion in the last 15 years. It has been responsible for 111,000 new and renovated housing units — nearly 60,000 of them affordable to public housing tenants — on 240 sites in cities throughout the US...Read more