Category: Research & Analysis

  • A Scalable Housing Solution: Embracing ADUs in an Aging, Low-Growth City

    A Scalable Housing Solution: Embracing ADUs in an Aging, Low-Growth City

    Introduction: Reimagining Housing for an Aging and Economically Shifting City Detroit is at a crossroads, facing demographic change, economic restructuring, and the long shadow of its twentieth-century urban form. One pressing question currently facing city officials and planners is how to house Detroit’s growing senior population in a way that is financially sustainable, socially equitable,…

  • Decommodifying Housing and Ensuring Economic Stability Outside Homeownership

    Housing is more than just a roof over one’s head, it is a foundation for stability, health, and community. In America, housing has also become a primary vehicle for wealth accumulation. For decades, policies have encouraged homeownership as the path to prosperity, entangling the basic human need for shelter with speculative investment. This essay aims…

  • Challenges and Solutions for Housing Affordability in Urban America

    Mankind has sought shelter since the dawn of time. As the human species continue growing in numbers and cultural variety, the fight for this basic need has intensified. Housing serves as an economic, social, and political barometer of a country’s growth and well-being (Austin, Gurran, & Whitehead, 2014). On the economic front, housing investment aids…

  • Partisan Realignment and the Generation Gap in the Democratic Party

    The Democratic Party is at a turning point in American politics, defined by a growing generational divide on important topics. This growing division poses a pivotal question: To what extent does this generational divide within the Democratic Party indicate a potential for a partisan realignment? Partisan realignment is the study of major changes in party…