Phillips, C. & Bourassa, S.(2026). The State of the State’s Housing 2026: Supply and Affordability in Washington State. Washington Center for Real Estate Research. College of Built Environments. University of Washington. https://wcrer.be.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2026/10/State-of-the-State-2026-Final-2.pdf.
Research Theme: Housing & Homelessness
Includes social and real-estate implications of homelessness, housing affordability and livability in the built environment
Housing Needs and Housing Production: A Progress Report to the Washington State Legislature
Bourassa, S. & Phillips, C. (2026). Housing Needs and Housing Production: A Progress Report to the Washington State Legislature. Washington Center for Real Estate Research. College of Built Environments. University of Washington. https://wcrer.be.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2026/10/SB-5587-Report-to-Legislature-2026-final.pdf.
Implementing Washington State’s SSB 5587: Methodology for Measuring Production of Emergency and Permanent Supportive Housing
Bourassa, S. & Phillips, C. (2026). Implementing Washington State’s SSB 5587: Methodology for Measuring Production of Emergency and Permanent Supportive Housing. Washington Center for Real Estate Research. College of Built Environments. University of Washington. https://wcrer.be.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2026/10/SB-5587-Methodology-for-Measuring-Emergency-and-Permanent-Supportive-Housing.pdf.
Implementing Washington State’s SSB 5587: Methodology for Measuring Production of Housing at Different Affordability Levels
Bourassa, S. & Phillips, C. (2026). Implementing Washington State’s SSB 5587: Methodology for Measuring Production of Housing at Different Affordability Levels. Washington Center for Real Estate Research. College of Built Environments. University of Washington. https://wcrer.be.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2026/06/SB-5587-Methodology.pdf.
Katie Escudero
Katie Escudero is the Director of Center Operations for the Housing Futures Center. In this role, she leads the Center’s operations and works closely with the Director to advance research, education, and engagement across Washington state.
Katie brings nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of housing, policy, and strategy. Before joining the Center, she worked at two Puget Sound housing authorities, King County Housing Authority and Tacoma Housing Authority, where she led research and evaluation projects that informed major policy changes, directed complex, multidisciplinary initiatives, and built partnerships spanning the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She began her career in housing at the Downtown Women’s Center, a nonprofit affordable housing provider in Los Angeles’s Skid Row.
Katie holds bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Ethnic Studies from Colorado State University and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.
Real Estate Insights: Location matters – real estate submarkets in the work of Bryan MacGregor
Bourassa, S. C., & Hoesli, M. (2026). Real Estate Insights: Location matters – real estate submarkets in the work of Bryan MacGregor. Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPIF-02-2026-0026.
Abstract
Purpose
This paper highlights Bryan MacGregor's contribution to the literature on the definition of real estate submarkets in the context of hedonic house price analysis and commercial property investment diversification.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper provides a summary and discussion of Bryan's work on real estate submarkets, focusing on three of Bryan's published research papers.
Findings
Bryan's publications include an application of principal components analysis and cluster analysis to the definition of housing submarkets for hedonic modelling purposes. They also include studies of the usefulness of cluster analysis for commercial property investment diversification. Although Bryan is best known for his work on commercial property markets, his most-cited work is the paper on housing submarkets.
Originality/value
This paper calls attention to Bryan's contribution to research on real estate submarkets, particularly the analysis of housing submarkets.
Keywords
Bryan MacGregor; Real estate submarkets; Hedonic modeling; House prices; Commercial property portfolios
Housing Futures Center
The Housing Futures Center (HFC) at the University of Washington advances solutions to Washington’s most pressing housing challenges through research, education, and community partnerships. HFC builds capacity and supports informed decision-making to ensure that every Washingtonian has access to affordable and stable housing.
Housing in Washington is increasingly out of reach for many families. Over the next two decades, the state will need more than 1.1 million new housing units, two-thirds of which must be affordable to households earning less than 80% of the area median income. HFC works to meet this need by connecting knowledge, policy, and practice across disciplines and communities.
The State of the State’s Housing 2025: Supply and Affordability in Washington State
Phillips, C. P. & Bourassa, S. C. (2025). The State of the State’s Housing 2025: Supply and Affordability in Washington State. Washington Center for Real Estate Research. College of Built Environments, University of Washington.
The State of the State’s Housing 2024: Supply and Affordability in Washington State
Phillips, C. P., Bourassa, S. C., & Virant, M. A. (2024). The State of the State’s Housing 2024: Supply and Affordability in Washington State. Washington Center for Real Estate Research. College of Built Environments, University of Washington.
Eunice Akowuah
My research interests include housing policy, affordable housing, smart cities, housing markets, real estate markets, appraisals, development, sustainability and investments. Other areas that are of interest to me include facilities management, urban and city planning, and real estate economics.