Research / Reports

We conceptualize research as activism and propose that policy can be engaged as a matter of social justice and a means to transform society via research and knowledge mobilization.
This article examines the housing situations of people released from prison in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the relationship between two measures of recidivism (re-sentencing and re-imprisonment) and two measures of housing stability (stable housing and residential mobility).
Whose income actually benefits from productivity gains when highly productive urban locations in Australia, and other advanced economies, also are associated with worsening housing affordability and inequality?
The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of more inclusive housing markets.
Keynote presentation slides. This research explores the understanding and the ability of the professionals in the UK construction industry to influence the adoption of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). This study is carried out through a combination of a literature review and a questionnaire survey of the top professionals in the UK construction industry.
Through a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals from 2015 through 2021, this study identified 27 articles that focus on the intersection of social work, environmental justice, poverty, and racism.
This chapter examines social progress as a concept, what it means for helping to understand and address social inequities, how we are going as a country, and why tracking and focusing on it at local, state, national, and international levels are important for urban policy now and into the future.
This analysis indicates that children tend to be healthier and more successful growing up in compact neighborhoods where residents frequently walk and bicycle, drive less at lower speeds, have affordable housing and travel options, are integrated by income and background, and have sufficient parks and greenspace.