This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $395,000 provides funding for a research project titled "Informality and Inequality in the Global North: Regulation, Non-Compliance, and Enforcement in US Land Use and Housing Law." The project will be carried out between August 2023 and July 2026 under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The award supports research and education activities to examine the proliferation of informal housing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $470,000 supports a research project to expand knowledge on the housing experiences and socioeconomic/health outcomes of an understudied urban population. The project will use interviews and surveys to investigate how members of this population experience renting, homeownership, and homelessness, and how those housing experiences impact their socioeconomic and health outcomes....
This $625,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of the Neighborhood Rental Database. This database collects and aggregates real-time rental data from major online platforms to provide up-to-date, representative information on local rent levels across the U.S. The goal is to enable decision-makers and researchers in the public and private sectors to better understand housing trends,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop an interdisciplinary research center on the complex issues of housing and homelessness. The center will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines such as economics, psychology, anthropology, geography, and sociology to investigate the social, health, economic, and policy...
This $383,941 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) supports the development of a collaborative digital platform and research network focused on mapping the historical origins of residential segregation patterns in U.S. urban areas. The key objectives are to create an open-access digital database and GIS mapping resources that enable interdisciplinary research on the locational attainments and household-level...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to Princeton, NJ for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The grant aims to study the impact of federal housing policies on racial inequality by contributing research on basic social sciences and monitoring resources invested in science. The total funding amount of one hundred thirty-eight thousand dollars will support this research over a two year...
This $400,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) with an award date of September 1, 2024 and a completion date of August 31, 2026. The project, titled "Measuring Integration in Affordable Housing with Location Data," will deploy a national, large-scale study using cell phone location data to test major theories on how integration happens in affordable housing. The research aims to...
This $353,568 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a research project to study the history of population displacement across American towns from 1850 to 1940. The project will leverage machine learning and historical newspaper records to create a comprehensive database of these displacements, which will then be merged with individual census data. The expanded dataset will enable analysis of the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $175,802 to investigate the costs of eviction and homelessness. The research project, conducted by the University of Nebraska, has four main components: 1) examining the impact of eviction on children's housing, academic achievement, and long-term employment/earnings; 2) using a field experiment to study the long-term benefits of short-term housing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $336,050 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to study forced displacement and community resilience related to housing insecurity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in inland Southern California. The three-year award beginning July 1, 2022 will fund research into the demographic and socioeconomic profiles of renters experiencing eviction, the relocation processes and...