Hayden Hood

The United States (and global) economy has been moving into a period of economic stagnation for the past few decades (Magdoff & Foster, 2014). As a small number of large corporations dominate a greater share of sectors in the U.S. and global economies, business investment has slowed and wages are… read more 

It is the wager of Planning for a Material World (2015), a collection of essays edited by Lauren Lieto and Robert Beauregard, that new materialism provides planners with a “path-breaking” theoretical approach “tightly connected to the material world they hope to change” (p. 2). The new materialism, as derived here… read more 

Abstract In the face of a severe and deepening affordable rental housing shortage in the United States, subsidized rental housing, though comprising a small portion of the housing stock, is a critical resource. In this study, we synthesize and summarize secondary research and opinions from eight leading experts on the… read more