The National Science Foundation awarded a $359,208 project grant to Michigan State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the "Mapping Informal and Alternative Housing in the United States: A Big Data Approach for Examining Spatial Inequality" project from August 2021 through July 2024. The project aims to examine the proliferation of informal and alternative housing in the U.S., and how this relates to uneven spatial...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a $470,000 research project to investigate the housing experiences and socioeconomic outcomes of an understudied urban population. The project will use a mixed-methods approach, including interviews and surveys of 1,000 urban residents, to examine how this population experiences renting, homeownership, and homelessness, and how these housing...
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 Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the construction of a new dataset from county land-use records across 20 U.S. counties over 40 years. The dataset includes information on Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured and Veteran's Administration (VA)-guaranteed mortgages, which will be made publicly available for use by academics, decision-makers, community organizations,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career researcher investigating legislative activities in city councils across the United States. The 2-year project, which commenced on August 15, 2024, aims to build an original dataset of legislative actions in hundreds of city councils and analyze differences in the topics and scope of those actions across cities and over time. The research will use...
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...
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 $625,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund the development of the Neighborhood Rental Database, a comprehensive dataset providing real-time, representative data on local rent levels across the United States. The grant recipient, The Urban Institute, will collect rental data from major online platforms to create this database, which will enable decision-makers and researchers in the public and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $107,388 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to develop a granular spatial-equilibrium model that accounts for the optimizing decisions of a finite number of individuals, as well as land and labor market clearing. The project aims to empirically implement this model and illustrate advances over prior econometric approaches for analyzing...
This $399,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a multi-method research project that investigates the prevalence and impacts of demographically coded language used in opposition to multifamily housing development. The research involves collecting and analyzing textual data from fair housing lawsuits, public meeting records, and news articles to identify patterns in the use of coded language...