This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program constructs 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 academic, policy, and community use. The $260,638 award, effective June 1, 2025 through May...
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...
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...
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 $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 $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 (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 Bureau of Economic Research Inc. will provide $321,762 in research services under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). Through this funding, the awardee will conduct a study of the US mortgage industry supply chain to quantify the relative impacts of information asymmetries and market power on intermediation costs. Services will include assembling a novel dataset tracing loan...
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 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...