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 on Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured and Veteran's Administration (VA)-guaranteed mortgages over a 40-year period across 20 counties in the United States. The dataset will include information on roughly 280,000 mortgages and be made publicly available to academic researchers, policy makers,...
This $472,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program digitizes and disseminates the Historical Survey of Consumer Finances (H-SCF) dataset from 1947-1977, along with complementary data on household insurance holdings. The project aims to provide an empirical foundation for research on topics like inflation, portfolio choice, consumption, and other areas critical to policy design. Key products include...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $470,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to expand knowledge on the housing experiences and outcomes of an understudied urban population. The project uses interviews and surveys to investigate how this population experiences renting, homeownership, and homelessness, and how those experiences shape their socioeconomic and health...
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 $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...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $625,000 to the Urban Institute provides funding to develop the Neighborhood Rental Database. This database will collect real-time data on rental prices from major online rental platforms to help decision-makers and researchers better understand housing trends, design housing policies, and respond to economic changes. The database will provide users with critical rental data...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $353,568 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to create a comprehensive database of displacement events across American towns from 1850 to 1940. The researchers will leverage historical newspaper records and census data, combined with machine learning techniques, to identify and link displacement episodes with individual population data....
This $562,092 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) funds research and data infrastructure development to support analysis of historical settlement and population growth patterns in the United States. The University of Colorado, Boulder will collaborate with the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota to develop gridded time series data on census tract-level variables related to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $382,047 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant, running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will fund a research project investigating the role of amenities, residential preferences, mortgage lending practices, and real estate advertisements in neighborhood change processes. The project...