About this journal

Aims and scope

Housing Policy Debate has since 1990 published cutting edge, original research that evaluates and informs housing and community development policy. Subjects include (but are not limited to) affordable housing, housing instability and homelessness, housing finance, housing for renter or owner-occupancy, neighborhood revitalization, housing-related poverty alleviation and integration strategies, metropolitan residential development trends, land use policy, segregation, and inequalities in access to housing by ethnic/racial, household/family, Indigeneity, transnational immigration, gender/sexuality, and other dimensions of societal diversity. The Journal also aims to explore linkages between housing policy and health, finance, energy, environmental, and transportation policies through interdisciplinary approaches. The Journal welcomes manuscripts examining these topics in any national context, so long as they have wide applicability.

The Journal seeks to highlight current debate on these topics through Forum sections that feature a central article with responding comments that represent a range of perspectives. Housing Policy Debate also features an occasional Outlook section, where the editors and advisory board members comment on emerging areas of housing and community development research or current events. Our objective is to disseminate widely the best current thinking on housing and housing-related policy.

Peer Review Statement

All submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process, based on initial editor screening and double-anonymized review by at least two reviewers. Housing Policy Debate applies the following criteria during the review process:

• Manuscripts should be theoretically and empirically informed investigations that engage questions relevant to housing markets and policies, conduct rigorous evaluations of housing and neighborhood development programs, and/or develop innovative theories or concepts related to housing and neighborhoods.
• They must clearly identify gaps in the scholarly literature their research helps close and make clear their contributions to theoretical or empirical issues related to housing policy.
• Applicability of findings to formulating specific policies and programs having general interest must be explicit.

Scholars with an excellent record as peer reviewer for HPD may be invited to join our Editorial Board. Scholars who wish to serve as peer reviewers for HPD should email the editorial office ([email protected]), listing their areas of expertise.

Editor in Chief

Vincent Reina , University of Pennsylvania, USA 

Managing Editor

Claudia Aiken ,  University of Pennsylvania, USA

Associate Editors

Arthur Acolin ,  University of Washington, USA

Andrew Aurand , National Low Income Housing Coalition, USA 

Casey Dawkins , University of Maryland, College Park, USA 

George Galster , Wayne State University, USA 

Ingrid Gould Ellen ,  New York University, USA

Megan Hatch , Cleveland State University, USA 

Michael Lens , University of California-Los Angeles, USA 

Kirk McClure , University of Kansas, USA 

Sandra J. Newman ,  Johns Hopkins University, USA

Editorial Advisory Board

David Bieri ,  Virginia Tech, USA

Lisa Bates,  Portland State, USA

Devin Michelle Bunten , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Karen Danielsen , University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Prentiss Dantzler , University of Toronto, Canada

Lei Ding ,  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA

Lance Freeman ,  University of Pennsylvania, USA

Andrew Greenlee ,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Youqin Huang ,  University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

Derek Hyra ,  American University, USA

Dan Immergluck ,  Georgia State University, USA

Paul Jargowsky , Rutgers University-Camden, USA 

Danya Keene ,  Yale University, USA

Rachel Garshick Kleit ,  The Ohio State University, USA

Kwan Ok Lee ,  National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

David Listokin , Rutgers University, USA

Jeffrey Lubell ,  Abt Associates, USA

Carlos Martín ,  Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, USA

Brian McCabe ,  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA

Mai Nguyen ,  University of California at San Diego, USA

Rolf Pendall ,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

John L. Renne ,  Florida Atlantic University, USA

Susan M. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania, USA 

Elvin K. Wyly ,  University of British Columbia, Canada

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• New! Housing Policy Debate Blog. Whether you're an author, a practitioner, a student who cares about housing we would love to hear from you.
• Housing Policy Debate Paper of the Year Award