09/09/2011”Emily Talen, Professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, and Julia Koschinsky, Assistant Research Professor and Research Director of the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, are one of six grantees of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Planning (HUD)’s 2010 Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program, selected from among several hundred applications nationwide. Talen and Koschinsky’s proposal was one of only three to be funded at the full amount of $500,000 over two years.
Talen and Koschinsky’s proposal to research “Affordable Housing and Walkable Neighborhoods: A National Urban Analysis” involves an in-depth, large-scale investigation of the link between subsidized housing and the walkability of urban neighborhoods. The researchers will investigate where, and to what degree, walkability and affordability are in alignment, and, whether the benefit of affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods is compromised by negative factors such as crime, foreclosure risk, low market strength, and racial segregation. They plan to uncover the neighborhood profiles that are associated with different degrees of walkability and affordability.” source Geo Data Center for Geo Spatial Analysis and Computation
