Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM)
The Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis and education. With over 1,500 academic, practitioner, organizational and institutional members, APPAM promotes its mission through the annual Fall Research Conference, with the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), the association's journal, several award programs and various activites including international and national conferences and workshops.
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Building Resilient Regions
The University of California Berkeley
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Building Resilient Regions (BRR) examines the power of metropolitan regions to respond to local and national challenges. BRR brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners to investigate why metro regions matter now, what constitutes resilience in the face of challenges, and what factors help to build and sustain strong metro regions. The Network’s analyses focus on several broad-based national challenges where the regional response is especially significant. These include: how growing regions address conditions such as increased traffic congestion and housing affordability; how regions that have lost manufacturing jobs build on existing strengths and attract new growth; how regions with large influxes of immigrants have responded to increased diversity and population pressures; and how the continued concentration and emerging deconcentration of poverty across metropolitan areas has affected access to opportunity and patterns of service provision. While these challenges appear as defining characteristics of regions, their origins and paths of development are conditioned in large part by global technological and economic shifts and concomitant alterations in the international division of labor.
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Center for Urban Research and Policy—Columbia University
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
The Center for Urban Research and Policy (CURP) has been established at a time of profound economic, political, and social change. The civic discourse has become increasingly anti-urban with fewer opportunities for informed non-partisan dialogue. Political leaders and ordinary citizens need reliable policy research, training in technology, and opportunities for public discussion on issues of concern to America’s cities. As an internationally known research university located in New York City, Columbia has a special responsibility to make a substantial contribution to these efforts. CURP promises to fulfill this responsibility by becoming a national resource for education, research, and discussion on issues confronting America’s cities. The Center is engaged in an ambitious program of training, research, and public discussion.
The need for the Center is increasingly apparent in the visible problems and repeated fiscal crises of our cities. Opportunities are evident in the renewed interest in domestic public policy and by an increased willingness by various sectors of society to “do something.” However, greater voice and focus and better dialogue and data are required to create a capacity for more informed discussions which will help influence the larger national agenda in effective policy-making. With the support of the entire Columbia community, the Center and its programs draw attention to issues confronting urban America and prepare the nation’s leaders for the challenge of solving these problems.
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Chicago Policy Review
University of Chicago
Since 1996 the Chicago Policy Review (CPR) has published top scholarship in the field of public policy analysis. Initially a forum for renowned scholars and policy experts such as Nobel Laureate James Heckman, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator John McCain, the journal has primarily published the work of students and alumni of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago since 2006.
The Chicago Policy Review (ISSN: 1093-8990) is edited and published annually by the students of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. By establishing linkages between theory and practice, the Review aims to promote thought provoking, insightful, and relevant public policy decision-making.
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Consolidated Planning/ Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) Data
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) periodically receives "custom tabulations" of Census data from the U.S. Census Bureau that are largely not available through standard Census products. These data, known as the"CHAS" data (Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy), demonstrate the extent of housing problems and housing needs, particularly for low income households. The CHAS data are used by local governments to plan how to spend HUD funds, and may also be used by HUD to distribute grant funds.
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European Urban Knowledge Network
The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) shares knowledge and experience on tackling urban issues. The key objective is to enhance the exchange of knowledge and expertise on urban development throughout Europe, bridging urban policy, research and practice. Thirteen EU Member States (National Focal Points, NFP), EUROCITIES, the URBACT Program and the European Commission participate in this European initiative. The EUKN Secretariat is housed at Nicis Institute in The Hague.
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Housing Affordability Data System
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The Housing Affordability Data System (HADS) is a set of files derived from the 1985 and later national American Housing Survey (AHS) and the 2002 and later Metro AHS. This system categorizes housing units by affordability and households by income, with respect to the Adjusted Median Income, Fair Market Rent (FMR), and poverty income. It also includes housing cost burden for owner and renter households. These files have been the basis for the worst case needs tables since 2001. The data files are available for public use, since they were derived from AHS public use files and the published income limits and FMRs.
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HUD Infographics
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
This section of the HUD USER website highlights the housing data available through interactive infographics. In order to show the wealth of information available from HUD USER Data Sets, these infographics seek to present housing data in new and informative ways.
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A report by the Center for an Urban Future considers the role that legal immigrants play in entrepreneurship and new-business creation.
April 28, 2011
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Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
The Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program was established in 1996 under the direction of William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor. The Program seeks to analyze the effects of increasing urban poverty and joblessness plaguing the inner cities and to ensure that scholarly research plays a critical role in the creation and implementation of national public policy concerning the poor.
Through conferences,seminars, and research activities, the Program agenda focuses on the various social forces and ecological factors that contribute to the marginalization and social isolation of urban populations.
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Journal of Policy Analysis & Management (JPAM)
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM)
APPAM founded the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) in 1981 through the merger of two other journals – Policy Analysis and Public Policy. Wiley-Blackwell (formerly John Wiley & Sons) has published JPAM since 1981. The current contract for publishing JPAM runs until the end of 2016. JPAM is published quarterly and is a peer-reviewed research journal. The creation of JPAM fulfilled one of the primary reasons for APPAM's existence: the dissemination of the highest quality, multidisciplinary research in public policy and management. As the Association's journal of record, JPAM's ultimate purpose is building a professional community of scholars and practitioners devoted to more effective policy analysis and public management.
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Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Database
The LIHTC database, created by HUD and available to the public since 1997, contains information on nearly 31,251 projects and over 1,843,000 housing units placed in service between 1987 and 2007. HUD's database is the only complete national source of information on the size, unit mix, and location of individual projects. The database includes project address, number of units and low-income units, number of bedrooms, year the credit was allocated, year the project was placed in service, whether the project was new construction or rehab, type of credit provided, and other sources of project financing. The database has been geocoded, enabling researchers to look at the geographical distribution and neighborhood characteristics of tax credit projects.
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Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy is a vibrant intellectual community of faculty, master's and Ph.D. students, researchers, and administrative staff striving to improve public policy and practice in the areas of health care, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor. The work of the Center draws on the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to address pressing questions. Over the last twenty years, the Wiener Center has been an influential voice in domestic policy through faculty work on community policing, welfare reform, youth violence, inner city poverty, youth and the low-wage labor market, American Indian economic and social development, and medical error rates.
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Metropolis
Metropolis is an international network for comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world.
The international arm of the Project involves partnerships with policy makers and researchers from over 20 countries, including the United States, most of Western Europe, Israel and Argentina and from the Asia-Pacific region.
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Policy Studies Journal
American Political Science Association; Policy Studies Organization
As the principal outlet for the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association and for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) is the premier channel for the publication of public policy research. PSJ is best characterized as an outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on policy process and policy analysis. More specifically, we aim to publish articles that advance public policy theory, explicitly articulate its methods of data collection and analysis, and provide clear descriptions of how their work advances the literature.
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Racial Residential Segregation
University of Michigan
This website provides indexes of racial residential segregation for all states, for all counties, for all metropolitan areas and for all cities of 100,000 or more using information from the Census of 2000. Indexes of dissimilarity, exposure indexes, and interracial contact measures are available for five single races and for the three most frequently reported combinations of two races. Segregation measures are provided using three different levels of local area geography: census tracts, block groups, and blocks.
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Residential segregation has lessened, but not disappeared.
April 25, 2012
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SSIIM: Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants, Urban Policies and Practice
Lauv University of Venice
By promoting public awareness on the importance of effective urban policies for the social and spatial inclusion of international migrants, the SSIIM UNESCO Chair will help addressing urban poverty reduction, as well as enhancing worldwide urban cultural diversity and preventing urban conflicts.
In the short term the SSIIM UNESCO Chair will contribute:
- to produce new knowledge and a better understanding on how to improve good urban governance for the social and spatial inclusion of international migrants.
- to exchange information on policies and practices that best respond to the challenges of increasingly multicultural urban societies.
- to foster the awareness of policy-makers, government officials and the civil society at large on the importance of international migrants social and spatial inclusion in urban areas.
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The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality
The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) is the product of an interdisciplinary team of more than forty research scholars at 15 U.S. colleges and universities. Funded principally by the Russell Sage Foundation and The Ford Foundation, the MCSUI is designed to broaden the knowledge and understanding of how three sets of forces--changing labor market dynamics, racial attitudes and stereotypes, and racial residential segregation--act singly and in concert to foster contemporary urban inequality. To address issues in each of these domains, the MCSUI research team engaged in primary data collection, conducting linked household-employer surveys in four metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
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US 2010
Brown University
As a public service, the American Communities Project makes information available on specific metropolitan areas and their respective city and suburban portions. We encourage users to interpret for themselves what is happening in their area.
This site includes data in the following topic areas: residential segregation, separate and unequal, and school segregation along with a description of each topic, and a choice of three ways to view the data. Users can compare across years, from as early as 1980 through 2010.
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