ICYMI: Congrats to our affiliates for their promotion to full professorship in April! Former MetroBridge Faculty Director and current IOC Urban Faculty Fellow David Glick IOC Seed Grant recipients Melissa Holt, Yasuko Kanno, & Ruth Paris 🔗 bu.edu/articles/2024/…

🥳🎉Congrats to our affiliates for being promoted to Associate Professors: Urban Faculty Fellow Jessica Simes, Seed Grant Recipient Mahesh Karra, Public Impact Scholar Jeffrey Geddes, and Faculty Advisory Board member Rébecca Bourgault! 🔗bu.edu/articles/2024/…

We 💙Bluebikes🚲!

This July, August, and September Office of Economic Opportunity & Inclusion presents the Community Canvas Series, a community-driven initiative that brings events to Nubian and Mattapan Squares. Salsa in Nubian Square, July 20 Carnival Multi-Band Launch in Mattapan Square, July 27 boston.gov/community-canv…

Gentrification and displacement North End Initiative on Cities Japonica Brown-Saracino

Only 54% of Americans view climate change as a major threat. Yet, an estimated 7 in 10 Americans report experiencing an extreme event in the last three years, Manann Donoghoe and Andre M. Perry note. brookings.edu/articles/why-i…

Looking for a new place to live in Boston? What about your dad’s old office building? Office vacancies in the city have doubled since the first quarter of 2020, to 16.6%, and are expected to keep climbing. While newer, top of the line buildings like those in...

📄 New paper by our Director Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 and Urban Reinventors on London's council estate urban regeneration, particularly in the neighborhood of Woodberry Down. 🔗journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… Office of Research, Boston University BU Experts

In our brief, “A race/class analysis of the wealth distribution” buff.ly/3So0VdK, we note that among the roughly 37 million higher-wealth households, only one million are headed by Latinos, two million by Black Americans, and three million by Asian Americans.

So good to be talking to City Hall again excited to see what Zoë Garbett will do on the housing committee

A new bipartisan bill to improve indoor air quality in schools - great opportunity to support better learning, healthier students, teachers & staff, reduce absenteeism and close gaps in education disparities.

My wonderful PhD students wrote this off ⁦Initiative on Cities⁩ Metrobridge course: In studying business gentrification, of course size matters - Cambridge Day cambridgeday.com/2024/07/19/in-…

Please join us TOMORROW at 9:30 a.m. for the release of our new report, “Homelessness in Greater Boston: Trends in the Context of Our Broader Housing Crisis.” You can register here: buff.ly/3Woqldo The report looks closely at trends in homelessness across Greater Boston.

📰New article by our seed grant recipients Tom Byrne, Mohit Tamta, and their co-authors in Housing Studies ⬇️ BU School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health Office of Research, Boston University

🚛🚫You can’t drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, or Soldiers Field Road. 🚛🚫You can’t drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, or Soldiers Field Road. 🚛🚫You can’t drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, or Soldiers Field Road.

#ICYMI Calling for papers to join this panel #academictwitter at the 2025 UAA International Conference looking into housing, heat, and health in cities! Session organized by Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba More info: bu.edu/ioc/2024/07/01…

Congrats to this year's 24 Thomas M. Menino & 52 Community Service Scholarship recipients! The Menino Scholarship, now 51 years strong, has awarded over $211M in financial support to 2,171 BostonPublicSchools students, offering a full ride. Community Service recipients receive their

Clearing encampments without adequate notice or providing viable housing alternatives, and even confiscating personal property, are common strategies that fail to solve homelessness. Learn more in our new policy brief with partners at Initiative on Cities & Cornell Public Health