我们的使命是确定创造繁荣社区和城市并改善所有居民生活的机制和政策。
城市、住房和社会实验室将调查地理位置、劳动力市场和公共政策如何影响家庭的经济生活和不平等。该实验室将汇集来自学术界、工业界和政府的各种合作者。
我们将公共和私营部门的行政数据与统计和经济工具相结合，以提高所有类型社区及其居民的生产力和生活质量。一个重点将是建立一个由多学科研究人员和学生组成的社区，以促进思想交流并支持这些领域的研究。战略与研究
该实验室将带来许多来自公共和私营部门的独特数据源，以解决当今城市面临的关键政策问题。我们研究的主题包括经济适用房政策、基于地方的政策、空间不平等、地方公共财政和地方劳动经济学。
我们的分析将程序评估和简化形式技术与结构建模和估计相结合。这种双管齐下的方法使我们能够利用可信和透明的研究设计来回答复杂的问题，例如政府政策的均衡影响以及许多不同类型的城市和家庭的分配效应。

Our mission is to identify the mechanisms and policies that create thriving communities and cities and improve the lives of all residents.
The Urban, Housing and Society Lab will investigate how geography, labor markets and public policies affect families' economic lives and inequality. The lab will bring together a variety of collaborators from academia, industry and government.
We combine administrative data from the public and private sectors with statistical and economic tools to improve the productivity and quality of life of all types of communities and their residents. One focus will be to establish a community of multidisciplinary researchers and students to facilitate the exchange of ideas and support research in these areas. Strategy and Research
The lab will bring many unique data sources from the public and private sectors to address key policy issues facing cities today. Topics covered include affordable housing policies, location-based policies, spatial inequality, local public finance, and local labor economics.
Our analysis combines procedural evaluation and simplified form techniques with structural modeling and estimation. This two-pronged approach allows us to use credible and transparent research designs to answer complex questions, such as the equilibrating effects of government policies and the distributional effects of many different types of cities and households.