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Exploring the Nexus of Energy Burden, Social Capital, and Environmental Quality in Shaping Health in US Counties
(MDPI, 2021-01-13)The United States spends more on health care than any other OECD country, yet the nation’s health is declining. Recent research has identified multiple sources for this decline, including one’s position in social and ... -
Building Community Resilience: A Proactive, Measurable, Scalable, and Comprehensive Resilience Planning and Forecasting Model
(University of Kansas, 2021-11-30)Historically, community resilience planning has been disaster-focused, reactive, and left little room to build increased sustainability to face exponentially increasing climate change impacts. Defining sustainability and ... -
Street-Level Judgments: How the Role of Judges Influences the Decision to Collaborate in Juvenile Courts
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The use of problem-solving collaborations, much like in other areas of public management, is widespread in the United States juvenile court system. These problem-solving collaborations include, but are not limited to, ... -
The Influence of Business Interest Groups in Urban Policymaking: An Empirical Exploration of a Low Salience Policy Setting
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The lack of a national comprehensive climate change policy in the United States has prompted cities to take the lead on urban sustainability actions. Extent research has explored various political, socio-economic and ... -
Iraq’s tough governance setting: Examining the importance of self-sacrifice over institutions to public service motivation
(Intellect, 2019-09-01)Public service motivation (PSM) is understudied within ‘tough governance settings’ such Iraq’s, as it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy amidst civil unrest. Debates surrounding a universal construct of PSM currently ... -
Beyond Adoption: The Influence of Local Institutional Arrangements on Sustainability Policy Implementation and Management
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)As we are more than a decade into describing and understanding local sustainability as a major phenomenon, local governments now face new challenges as they begin moving from commitment (i.e. stage of adopting sustainability ... -
Pumping the Brakes on Robot Cars: Current Urban Traveler Willingness to Consider Driverless Vehicles
(MDPI, 2019-09-15)A growing literature suggests that widespread travel conducted through driverless connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) accessed as a service, in contrast to those personally owned, could have significant impacts on ... -
Who Cares? Arnstein’s Ladder, the Emotional Paradox of Public Engagement, and (Re)imagining Planning as Caring
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-27)Problem, research strategy, and findings: What should planners do when members of the public “care loudly” at them? Planning scholars have recently called for more attention to the emotional dimensions of our profession. ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of For-Profit Colleges
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation consists of three studies regarding the growing role of for-profit colleges and universities in the United States. Analyzing the behaviors of these institutions through a microeconomic lens, I investigate ... -
Planners as leaders: finding their comfort zone
(Emerald, 2018-05-16)Purpose: Planners are expected to leave leadership to elected officials. Yet, they are often asked to do more. Should planners lead? The purpose of this paper is to examine how leadership is seen in the profession and then ... -
All plug-in electric vehicles are not the same: Predictors of preference for a plug-in hybrid versus a battery-electric vehicle
(Elsevier, 2018-12)This study analyzes data from a survey of drivers (n = 1080) administered in late 2013 to assess factors that influence potential car buyers to consider two different types of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the United ... -
Bystander No More? Improving the Federal Response to Sexual Violence in Indian Country
(University of Utah, 2017)For better or worse, the federal government has taken responsibility for providing for the protection of Native people. So long as the federal government refuses to allow tribes to govern themselves completely and ... -
The Twin Mandates Given to the GSEs: Which Works Best, Helping Low-Income Homebuyers or Helping Underserved Areas?
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2001)This research examines the twin mandates of the GSE Act of 1992: to direct mortgage credit to neighborhoods that have been underserved by mortgage lenders and to direct mortgage credit to low-income and minority households. ... -
Rent Burden in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2000-05)The Housing Choice Voucher Program is designed to help low-income households consume housing at an acceptable burden on their income. The incidence of high housing cost in the program has been reduced over the past few ... -
The Prospects for Guiding Housing Choice Voucher Households to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2010)The Housing Choice Voucher Program seeks to do more than help poor households lease good-quality rental housing. One of the program’s goals is to help poor households break out of the cycle of poverty by locating in ... -
Reducing Worst Case Housing Needs with Assisted Housing
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2012)This research note seeks to answer this question: When units of assisted housing are added to a metropolitan market, is there a commensurate reduction in the number of households with worst case housing needs (WCN)? WCN ... -
Which Metropolitan Areas Work Best for Poverty Deconcentration with Housing Choice Vouchers?
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2013)The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) offers choice to poor renter households, but only a fraction of the households in the program use that choice to locate in lowpoverty neighborhoods. Analysis of metropolitan areas ... -
Vouchers and Neighborhood Distress: The Unrealized Potential for Families with Housing Choice Vouchers to Reside in Neighborhoods with Low Levels of Distress
(Office of Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 2016)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program seeks to help poor households locate in high-opportunity neighborhoods, but experts have reached little agreement on how to define high opportunity. Using low poverty as the sole ... -
Length of Stay in Assisted Housing
(Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2018)This research addresses the length of time that households remain in the various assisted housing programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The research finds that the typical household ...
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