Metropolitan Area Studies by Region
Diverse Suburbs: A Report to the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (2022)
New Jersey suburbs are in the process of rapid demographic transformation. Already one of the nation’s most diverse states, the last twenty years have seen many places in New Jersey transition towards greater and greater racial diversity. These changes have important implications
for the stability and livelihood of regional municipalities and residents.
Employment Clustering and Job Growth: A Report to the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (2022)
The NJTPA region, like many others, has confronted serious changes in employment patterns in recent decades. Jobs in most regions, including the NJTPA region, tend to cluster in small geographic areas called employment centers. Employment centers, as hubs for jobs and
transportation, are a useful lens for analyzing regional growth patterns.
Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: A Report to the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (2022)
The problems accompanying neighborhood change, and particularly economic decline, are interlinked with long-standing urban issues like segregation and white flight. However, in recent years, there has been increased emphasis on anti-displacement and anti-gentrification
policies. If conducted poorly, such an approach can miss underlying issues or even make economic decline worse.
Policy Analysis and Recommendations: A Report to the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (2022)
This report summarizes policy and legal analysis related to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity’s study of diverse suburbs, employment and jobs, and neighborhood change in the NJTPA region. It recommends that metropolitan policymakers in the NJTPA region – including state, regional and local leaders – adopt a core set of policy priorities that reflect the primary challenges that the region faces.
Chicago's Diverse Suburbs: Strengthening the Region by Stabilizing Suburban Communities (2021)
A Report to the Illinois Association of Realtors. Chicago’s suburbs are in a process of radical transformation. Across the Chicago region, the racial diversity of suburban communities continues to increase. These changes have important implications for the stability and livelihood of the suburban cities where most of the regional population lives.Â
Gentrification, Neighborhood Change, and Chicago: Managing Growth in a Great American Metropolitan Region (2021)
A Report to the Illinois Association of Realtors. Chicago contains both gentrification and neighborhood economic decline. Correctly understanding the relative scale of these two trends – where they’re happening, how much they’re happening, and who they’re happening to – is essential for policymakers hoping to address neighborhood change.
Job Growth and Chicago: Renewal Strategies for a Great American Metropolitan Region (2021)
A Report to the Illinois Association of Realtors. Employment patterns in the Chicago metropolitan area have changed over the past three decades, with important consequences for residents and policymakers. New job growth has created opportunities to slow urban sprawl, redevelop the urban core, and build better transit. Employment centers, where many jobs are concentrated, are growing in recent years across the city of Chicago and its suburbs alike.
Working and Walking Up (2020)
The Distribution of Job Growth in Employment Centers and WalkUPs in The Largest 32 U.S. Metropolitan Areas (A Report to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) with special consideration of patterns and trends in the Washington D.C. Area
Statewide Home Mortgage Lending Patterns in Connecticut, 2010 to 2014 (2018)
A Report to the Connecticut Fair Housing Center. There are clear racial disparities in home mortgage lending in Connecticut. Data for the period from 2010 to 2014 show that blacks and Hispanics are denied loans more often than whites, even when controlling for income. In fact, very high income blacks are more likely to be denied loans than low income whites. Lending activity is also depressed in racially diverse, and majority non-white neighborhoods.
Minority Suburbanization and Racial Change (2006)
This IRP study tracks racial change in 15 major U.S. metro areas.
Pennsylvania Metropatterns (2005)
Report
The Segregation of Opportunities (2005)
This IRP report documents race, housing and opportunity in the Chicago region.