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11 April, 2024

Symposium articles include:

Linkages with Policy Impacts

Claudia Coulton, Michael Henderson, Francisca García-Cobián Richter, Jeesoo Jeon, April Urban, Michael Schramm, and Robert L. Fischer describe how Cleveland, Ohio, used parcel data, property tax rolls, deed and foreclosure records, housing code violations, rental registry information, building permits, evictions, and Housing Choice Voucher program records to evaluate lead risk in its rental housing stock and develop a typology of landlords.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Mariya Shcheglovitova and Gina Lee draw on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood risk maps, the U.S. Geological Survey Flood Inundation Mapping Program, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administrative data to provide a methodological example of integrating federal flooding and housing data to gain local housing insights.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…

Veronica Helms Garrison, Jacqueline V. Bachand, Cindy Zhang, Christine Cox, Cordell Golden, and Kimberly A. Lochner use 2015–18 National Health Interview Survey and HUD-linked data to examine women 18–44 years old with children and renting their home who were receiving HUD assistance and a comparison population of women of the same age with children, who were low-income renters but were not HUD-assisted.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article3…

Marah Curtis, Kurt Paulsen, and Hilary Shager describe recent efforts by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to connect federal and local housing program data with the Wisconsin Administrative Data Core, which links large volumes of standardized, longitudinal administrative data from nearly all Wisconsin social welfare programs, information on incarceration from the Department of Corrections, and children’s educational outcomes from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article4…

Pooya Ghorbani, Courtney Wolf, Ben Wetzler, Simon McDonnell, Bobbetta Davis, and Parker Pence use publicly available data to develop a thorough Neighborhood Resource Index score to evaluate resource levels across various neighborhoods in New York State and then apply the score to analyze the placement of low-income housing tax credit properties.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article5…

Ian Thomas and Peter Mackie profile the Administrative Data Research Wales integrated data system and their use of data linkage to support homelessness policy and practice in Wales, United Kingdom.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article6…

Ownership and Displacement

Sarah Duda, Geoff Smith, and Yiwen Jiao use historical parcel-level data from the Cook County Assessor’s Office to analyze changes in the housing stock of neighborhoods throughout Chicago, quantify the losses in two-to-four-unit buildings, identify what happened to these properties, and assess the underlying real estate market factors behind the loss of these buildings.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article7…

David M. Greenberg, Julia Duranti-Martínez, Francisca Winston, Spenser Anderson, Jacob Udell, Caroline Kirk, and Richard D. Hendra use administrative data on mortgage transactions, sales prices, housing maintenance violations, and marshal’s evictions to investigate the effect of speculation on tenant outcomes in buildings with the fastest-rising property values in New York City and explore how acquisition of distressed housing by responsible owners of affordable housing may disrupt speculative cycles and contribute to positive tenant outcomes.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article8…

Karen Chapple’s commentary illuminates the relationship between investment activity and rental housing markets, opening up new avenues for research via strategic data linkage and providing much-needed evidence to support the preservation of affordable housing stock.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article9…

A commentary by Leah Hendey, Elizabeth Burton, and Kathryn L.S. Pettit identifies three areas to enhance the use of local administrative data based on their experiences from the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership: 1) collaborating with residents and community organizations to inform research questions and findings; 2) improving infrastructure around court records, zoning, and parcel data; and 3) integrating data across sectors, such as health, housing, education, and others.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Evictions

Max Griswold, Lawrence Baker, Sarah B. Hunter, Jason Ward, and Cheng Ren analyze with spatial first differences the effect of crime-free housing policies on evictions in four locations (Fremont, Hayward, Riverside, and San Diego County) in California.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Tim Thomas, Alex Ramiller, Cheng Ren, and Ott Toomet explain how data science tools can be used to extract records from jurisdictions with opaque eviction record keeping and illustrate how these tools can supplement existing data collection practices to build a comprehensive national dataset.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Elizabeth Lochhead, and Katherine O’Regan address the lack of attention to evictions in subsidized housing by leveraging multiple sources of administrative data to analyze patterns of nonpayment eviction filings and warrants in different types of place-based, subsidized housing in the state of New York between 2016 and 2022.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Peter Hepburn's commentary describes ways the administrative data available in landlord-tenant court records can be accessed and analyzed to inform local decisionmaking that addresses housing instability.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Developing and Improving Datasets

Linna Zhu, Michael Neal, and Caitlin Young provide a quantifiable measure for auditing the performance of Automated Valuation Models in majority-Black neighborhoods compared with their majority-White counterparts.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Shiloh Deitz, Will B. Payne, Eric Seymour, Kathe Newman, and Lauren Nolan address the challenges of mapping affordable housing in New Jersey by developing a largely automated and replicable process for precisely placing subsidized housing units into tax parcels.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Renz Torres addresses the challenge of identifying institutional ownership in housing by developing a graph-based analytical model designed to group and unmask anonymous corporate owners by identifying sums of properties held by groups of subsidiaries.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Matthew Murphy’s commentary presents new methods researchers are developing to bridge knowledge gaps and deepen our comprehension of the effects of historical and recently changed housing policies.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Articles in Cityscape's regularly appearing departments include:

Affordable Design: Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation by Sherri L. Thurston
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article1…

Data Shop: Mapping Gentrification: A Methodology for Measuring Neighborhood Change by Serena Smith, Owais Gilani, Vanessa Massaro, Caroline McGann, Gavin Moore, and Michael Kane
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…

Graphic Detail: Whom Do We Serve? Refining Public Housing Agency Service Areas by
Kristen Tauber, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Katherine O’Regan
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…

Visualizing Veteran and Nonveteran Homelessness Rates in Virginia by Brent D. Mast and Tricia Ruiz
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…

Fewer Public Housing Units and a Greater Spatial Concentration of Housing Choice Voucher Households in the Tampa Metropolitan Statistical Area by Alexander Din
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…

Industrial Revolution: A Study of Innovative Assistive Devices for Aging in Place by John B. Peavey, Pranav Phatak, Ed Steinfeld, and Danise Levine
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…

Policy Briefs: Point Access Block Building Design: Options for Building More Single-Stair Apartment Buildings in North America by Stephen Smith and Eduardo Mendoza
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol26num1/article2…