Wayne State University

Department of Urban Studies & Planning

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George Galster Title Distinguished Professor , Clarence B. Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs Office# 3185 Faculty Administration Building Research Area Affordable Housing; Urban Communities; Urban Sprawl Phone (313) 577-9084 E-Mail aa3571@wayne.edu Web Site www.clas.wayne.edu/faculty/galster

Research Interests

• Sprawl: Its nature, causes, and consequences
• Neighborhood Dynamics and Threshold Points
• Affordable Housing

Teaching

• Urban Poverty and Racial Segregation
• Neighborhood Decline and Revitalization
• Housing Policy and Programs

Research Grants

• Ford Foundation, $500,000; "Impacts of PHA Homeownership Development Programs"
• US Geological Survey, $40,000; "Measuring Sprawl"
• HUD, $45,000; "GSE Mortgage Purchasing and Neighborhood Property Values"

Selected Publications 

• Why NOT in My Back Yard? The Neighborhood Impacts of Assisted Housing (with P. Tatian, A. Santiago, K. Pettit, and R. Smith). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University/Center for Urban Policy Research Press, 2003.
• The Maze of Urban Housing Markets: Theory, Evidence and Policy (with J. Rothenberg, R. Butler, J. Pitkin). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Reality and Research: Social Science and U.S. Urban Policy Since 1960 (editor and contributor of five chapters). Washington: Urban Institute Press, 1996.
• An Econometric Model of the Urban Opportunity Structure. Washington, DC: Fannie Mae Foundation, 1998.
• Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance (with D. Wissoker and W. Zimmermann). Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1998.

Courses

• Urban Poverty and Racial Segregation
• Neighborhood Decline and Revitalization
• Housing Policy and Programs