Pulling the Purse Strings: Choice and Competition in Public Schools

January 27th, 2012 - Jacob L. Rosch

Urban school districts spend to compete. More »

Cities Insecure: Urban Poor in Times of Rising Food Prices

January 25th, 2012 - Abigail Mackenzie Kerl

The pricey downside of life in the city. More »

Browner Pastures

January 18th, 2012 - Sam Quinney

Brownfield makeovers aren't glamorous for everyone. More »

Flooding the Urban Food Deserts

December 1st, 2011 - Abigail Mackenzie Kerl

A new Chicago start-up hopes to fill up the city's food deserts with a new approach---and with sound policy. More »

Disparities in Home Are Disparities in Health

November 21st, 2011 - ashleegabrysch

A family’s housing reality is often viewed as an index of its economic situation. However, Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas Miller's new NBER working paper joins a groundswell of research that demonstrates that housing situations are in fact proxies for m... More »

Where Are Charters the Answer?

November 21st, 2011 - Jen Cowhy

Charters are commonly seen as the answer to urban school districts’ troubles. However, it appears that they are not the answer to education issues everywhere, and may not be the answer at all. More »

Greening the Rust Belt

November 21st, 2011 - Mike Sitkowski

As the economy struggles to rebound and the foreclosure crisis takes its toll on American cities, vacant land and abandoned buildings continue to abound. For America’s once-great manufacturing cities, the impact has been even greater as metropolitan areas thro... More »

Immergluck and the Evolution of the FHA

September 20th, 2011 - Harry Moroz

Some might like to blame George Bush’s “ownership society,” with its emphasis on homeownership as a cure-all for social ills of all kinds, for the intrusion of the federal government into the housing and mortgage markets. But as Dan Immergluck explains in his ... More »