Includes social and real-estate implications of homelessness, housing affordability and livability in the built environment
The 2025 Inspire Fund Awardees have been selected! See more information about their projects below.
Project Title: “Enhancing Feasibility and Evaluation for the Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program in King County”
Team: Vince Wang (Runstad Department of Real Estate), Zhongmin …
Colburn, Gregg, and Rebecca J. Walter. Affordable Housing in the United States. Routledge, 2025.
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Ruoniu (Vince) Wang, Wei Kang, Xinyu Fu, Do inclusionary zoning policies affect local housing markets? An empirical study in the United States, Cities, Volume 158, 2025, 105736, ISSN 0264-2751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105736.
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Bourassa, S. C., Dröes, M. I., & Hoesli, M. (2024). Housing Market Segmentation: A Finite Mixture Approach. De Economist (Netherlands), 172(4), 291–337. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-024-09446-2
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The Washington Center for Real Estate Research has released a new report entitled “The State of the State’s Housing.” This is an inaugural annual report.
View the report here.…
Professor Steve Bourassa of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research (WCRER) and Runstad Department of Real Estate was quoted in a story entitled “First-time Buyer Affordability at Lowest Point in Four Years” in The Bellingham Herald.
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Mason Virant works in the Washington Center for Real Estate Research…
Professor Steve Bourassa of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research (WCRER) and Runstad Department of Real Estate was quoted in a story entitled “Listings are up, interest rates may come down.”
Read the full article here.…
Wang, R., & Spicer, J. (2024). “All roads lead to Rome?” Performance evaluation across different types of community land trusts based on a large-scale survey. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2371400
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A cohort of 4 projects were awarded Inspire Funds in April 2023. The report-outs from these projects are described below with a summary of project work and progress.
The 2023 cohort of Inspire Fund awardees met with the 2024 cohort …