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- Survey of Landlord Attitudes Toward Renting to Released Offenders
By Lynn Clark
In accordance with the HUD priority on reducing chronic homelessness, the proposed research will study landlord attitudes towards housing ex-offenders, who make up a significant portion of the chronically homeless population, in order to develop information that would enable reentry programs to be more effective in developing housing opportunities for homeless exoffenders.(More)
- How Well Does It Fit? An Organizational Culture Approach to Understanding Technology Use Among Homeless Service Providers
By Courtney Cronley
This pilot study examines how organizational culture affects staff members’ use of a homeless management information system (HMIS). Organizational culture and socio-technical theories suggest that the goodness of fit between organizations and technology is critical to successful implementation and use. The sample included 7 homeless service providers and 41 individuals. The study tested two hypotheses: First organizational culture influences staff members’ behavior; and second, organizational culture and individual characteristics interact to influence staff members’ behaviors. (More)
- The Behavior and Regulation of Predatory Mortgage Lending
By Kristen Crossney
The main research question of this manuscript aims to better understand predatory lending through an analysis of home mortgages, borrowers, and the actors in the mortgage market.(More)
- Growth Management and the Timing and Intensity of Land Development
By Christopher Cunningham
Work initially funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Early Doctoral Research Grant culminated in two completed papers examining price uncertainty in housing development. Utilizing assessor office records and county GIS files, the first paper, "House Price Uncertainty, Timing of Development and Vacant Land Prices: Evidence for Real Options in Seattle," is one of the first papers in the literature to test for real option considerations in land development decisions. Econometric hazard models and OLS
regressions reveal that a one standard-deviation increase in house price uncertainty is associated with an 11-percent decline in the likelihood of development and a 1.6-percent increase in the price of vacant land.
The second paper, "Growth Controls, Real Options and Land Development" goes on to test whether restrictive zoning, such as the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) drawn around the greater Seattle area reduces the effect of price uncertainty on development by reducing uncertainty about optimum building scale.(More)
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