Forrest Hangen

I'm a PhD Candidate in Public Policy - focusing on Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. I'm also affiliated with the Boston Area Research Initiative.

I study inequities in housing using 'big' data and computational social science methodologies at multiple scales of geography. My most recent work focuses on uncovering ownership obscurity in order to study landlords and their strategies of social and physical property management. I use fuzzy-matching to connect tax assessment and corporation records to accurately link landlords and investors to their portfolios of properties.

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Forrest Hangen

PhD Candidate | Public Policy

I'm a PhD Candidate in Public Policy - focusing on Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. I'm also affiliated with the Boston Area Research Initiative.

I study inequities in housing using 'big' data and computational social science methodologies at multiple scales of geography. My most recent work focuses on uncovering ownership obscurity in order to study landlords and their strategies of social and physical property management. I use fuzzy-matching to connect tax assessment and corporation records to accurately link landlords and investors to their portfolios of properties.

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Linking Landlords to Uncover Ownership Obscurity

Defining the ownership of rental housing can be a difficult task. In recent years there has been an increasing obscurity of ownership in administrative records as more property owners use Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) on deeds and in tax assessment records. In many cases, this obscures the …

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The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders

The “choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program signals the mobility offered to voucher holders. However, some landlords use source of income (SOI) discrimination to exclude voucher holders—limiting their locational choices. We propose several factors likely to influence this landlord …

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Different Places, different Problems: Profiles of Crime and Disorder at Residential Parcels

Certain places generate inordinate amounts of crime and disorder. We examine how places differ in their nature of crime and disorder, with three objectives: (1) identifying a typology of profiles of crime and disorder; (2) assessing whether different forms of crime and disorder co-locate at parcels; …

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