Metropolitan Policy Center Publications

Part of MPC's mission is to cultivate innovative cross-disciplinary metropolitan and urban research that helps to improve people's lives and public policy. We've accomplished this again and again by producing numerous publications with our findings. In the six听years that we've been around, we've published 11听books and 163+ articles, completed 6听projects, and presented in over 115 countries & locations.

Books

The Politics of Staying Put

The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy

by Carolyn Gallaher

Capital Dilemma

Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, D.C.

by Derek Hyra and Sabiyha Price

Building Walls

Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States

by Ernesto Casta帽eda

Indigenous DC

Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation's Capital

by Elizabeth Rule

Corruption Plots

Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist

by Malini Ranganathan and David Pike

A Man among Other Men

A Man among Other Men

by Jordanna Matlon

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

by Derek Hyra

Locally Played

Locally Played: Real-World Games for Stronger Places and Communities

by Benjamin Stokes

Cradle to Kindergarten

Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality

by听Taryn Morrissey

A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

by Ernesto Casta帽eda

Slow and Sudden Violence book cover

Slow and Sudden Violence

by Derek Hyra

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

by Ernesto Casta帽eda and Daniel Jenks

Neighborhoods

2021
  • Johnson, L. 鈥溾 Urban Affairs Review.
2020
  • Casta帽eda, E. ","听Social Sciences.
  • Bader, M. ","听Sociological Methods & Research.

  • Hardy, B. ","听2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference.

  • Morrissey, T. ","听Children and Youth Services Review.

2019
  • Bader, M. ","听Journal of Urban Health.
  • Bader, M. ","听City & Community.
  • Greene, T.听鈥,鈥澨City & Community.
  • Johnson, L. ","听Urban Affairs Review.
2016
  • Pike, D. 鈥,鈥澨A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism.
2015
  • Bader, M. 鈥,鈥澨Health & Place.
  • Hyra, D. 鈥,鈥澨City & Community.
  • Pike, D. 鈥,鈥澨Studies in the Humanities.
2014
  • Bader, M. ",鈥澨American Journal of Epidemiology.

Gentrification

2022
  • Ranganathan, M. & Hyra, D. 鈥溾 The Green City and Social Injustice.
2021
  • Hyra, D. ","听Volume 2: Housing and Home.
2019
  • Hyra, D.听","听Housing Policy Debate.
  • Ranganathan, M. et al. "," Antipode.
2018
  • Grier, S.听","听Journal of Public Policy and Marketing.
2017
  • Bader, M. 鈥,鈥澨The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
2016
  • Hyra, D. 鈥,鈥澨Cityscape.
2015
  • Hyra, D. 鈥.鈥澨Urban Studies.
  • Hyra, D. 鈥,鈥澨Journal of Urban Affairs.
2014
  • Esser, D.听鈥,鈥澨Environment and Urbanization.
  • Ranganathan, M.听鈥,鈥澨Governing Urban Futures, London School of Economics and Political Science Urban Age Series.
  • Ranganathan, M. 鈥,鈥澨Water Alternatives.

Health & Education

2022
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥溾 Southern Economic Journal.
2021
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥溾 Public Health and Nutrition.

  • Johnston, J. 鈥溾 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.听

  • AbouAssi, K. 鈥溾 Nonprofit Policy Forum.

  • De Jesus, M. 鈥溾 Social Sciences & Medicine.

  • De Jesus, M. ""听Women鈥檚 Health Reports.听

  • De Jesus, M. ""听International Journal of Public Health.

  • De Jesus, M. ""听International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

  • Grier, S. ""听Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.听

2020
  • Casta帽eda, E. ","听Social Sciences.听

  • Grier, S. ","听Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

  • Hardy, B. ""听The Brookings Institution.

  • Hardy, B. ""听Review of Economics of the Household.

  • Johnson, L. ""听Health & Place.

  • Morrissey, T. ","听2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference.

  • Morrissey, T. ","听Academic Pediatrics.

  • Morrissey, T. ""听2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference.听

  • Morrissey, T. ""听2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference.听

  • Morrissey, T. ""听2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference.

2019
  • De Jesus, M. ","听International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
  • De Jesus, M.听","听The Conversation.
  • Grier, S. ","听Journal of Public Policy and Marketing.
  • Morrissey, T.听","听Pediatrics Journal.
  • Ranganathan, M.听","听Antipode.
2018
  • De Jesus, M.听","听Public Health Reports.
2017
  • Casta帽eda, E. ","听Disability & Society.
  • Grier, S. 鈥,鈥澨Journal of Interactive Marketing.
  • Lindsay, C. 鈥,鈥澨Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
  • Lindsay, C. 鈥,鈥澨Education Next.
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥,鈥澨Preventive Medicine.
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥,鈥澨Review of Economics of the Household.
  • Morrissey, T. ","听Developmental Psychology.
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥,鈥澨Social Service Review.
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥,鈥澨Journal of Marriage and Family.
2016
  • Bader, M.听鈥,鈥澨American Journal of Public Health.
  • De Jesus, M. 鈥,鈥 Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
  • De Jesus, M. 鈥,鈥澨Psychology, Health, and Medicine.
  • De Jesus, M.听鈥,鈥澨LGBT Health.
  • Grier, S.听鈥,鈥澨Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.
  • Ranganathan, M.听鈥,鈥澨Capitalism Nature Socialism.
2014
  • Bader, M.听"Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Race & Diversity

2022
  • Palmer, J. 鈥溾 Handbook of Research on Social Justice Research Methods.
2021
  • Grier, S. 鈥溾 Jazz Research Journal.
  • Ranganathan, M. & Hyra, D. ""听Environmental Justice.
  • Gallaher, C. "" Gender, Place & Culture.
  • Hardy, B. ""听The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
  • Johnson, L. ""听Race and Justice.听
  • Ranganathan, M. ""听The Lancet Global Health.听
2020
  • Bader, M. 听Contexts.听
  • Bader, M. "" Social Science Research Network.
  • Grier, S. ""听Journal of Marketing Education.
  • Matlon, J. ""听The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.
  • Ranganathan, M. ""听Antipode.
2019
  • AbouAssi, K.听and Johnston, J.听","听Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
  • Casta帽eda,听E.听","听The Washington Post.
  • Grier, S. ","听Journal of Business Research.
  • Hardy, B.听","听The Review of the Black Political Economy.
  • Johnston, J. "," Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
2017
  • Esser, D. ","听School of International Service Research Paper.
  • Hardy, B.听鈥,鈥澨Economics Letters.
2016
  • Chuang, A. 鈥,鈥 Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference: Minneapolis, MN.
  • Bader, M.听","听Sociological Science.
  • Hyra, D.听","听Urban Geography.
  • Ranganathan, M.听","听Capitalism Nature Socialism.
2015
  • Bader, M.听鈥,鈥澨The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
  • Bader, M.听鈥,鈥澨Population Research and Policy Review.
  • Chuang, A. 鈥,鈥澨Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism.
  • De Jesus, M. 鈥,鈥澨Sexually Transmitted Infections.
  • Hyra, D. 听鈥,鈥澨Housing Policy Debate.
2014
  • Casta帽eda, E. 鈥,鈥 Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.

Inequality

2021
  • Esser, D. ""听The Professional Geographer.

  • Hardy, B. ""听Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

2020
  • Hardy, B. 鈥,鈥 Brookings Institution.
  • Grier, S. ""听Journal of Marketing Management.

  • Hardy, B. ""听The Brookings Institution.听

  • Morrissey, T. ""听Children and Youth Services Review.

  • Morrissey, T. "" 2020 APPAM Fall Research Conference.听

2018
  • Hardy, B. 鈥?鈥 Demography.
2016
  • Hardy, B. "," Contemporary Economic Policy.
  • Hyra, D. 鈥,鈥 Cityscape.
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥,鈥 Center for American Progress, Washington, DC.
  • Morrissey, T. 鈥,鈥澨Children and Youth Services Review.
2015
  • Grier, S. 鈥,鈥澨Journal of Business Research.

Housing & Community

2022
  • Palmer, J. 鈥溾 Handbook of Research on Social Justice Research Methods.
2021
  • Stokes, B. ""听Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.

  • Johnson, L. ""听Punishment & Society.

2020
  • Morrissey, T. ""听Behavioral Medicine.
2019
  • Hyra, D.,听","听Housing Policy Debate.
2018
  • Casta帽eda, E. 鈥,鈥 Social Currents.
  • Johnson, L.听","听Crime and Delinquency.
2017
  • Casta帽eda, E.听鈥.鈥 Interface Journal.
2015
  • Hyra, D. ","听The Roadmap for the Washington Region's Economic Future.
  • Hyra, D. "SBA Lending: Equity and Efficiency Challenges,"听White paper commissioned by the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders.
  • Hyra, D. ","听Journal of Urban Affairs.
  • Hyra, D., Johnston, J., and Hardy, B. ","听The Roadmap for the Washington Region's Economic Future.
  • Ranganathan, M. 鈥,鈥澨Antipode.
  • Ranganathan, M. 鈥,鈥听Urban Geography.
2014
  • Ranganathan, M. ",鈥澨International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Project Publications

DC Area Survey

DC Area Survey

Studying neighborhood and resident well-being in the Washington, D.C.听metropolitan area.

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SBA Lending

SBA Lending

An听analysis of听the equity and efficiency challenges of the Small Business Administration's lending programs.

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Making the Just City Drawing

Making the Just City

An interdisciplinary, comparative, CBPA research project investigating how housing, community change, and health are connected.


Capitol Building Illustration

The Roadmap Initiative

An听investigation into听aspects of the Washington area's regional economy.

Earned Income Tax Credit

An analysis of the effects of the federal EITC听program听within Washington, D.C.


Walkability Policy Brief Chart

Walkability Preference Policy Brief

A roundtable discussion about the "walkability preference" proposal put forward by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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