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Dan Immergluck

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Dan Immergluck is a professor of urban studies and public policy at Georgia State University. His research and policy work concerns affordable housing, community development, segregation and gentrification, and urban political economy. Dr. Immergluck is the author of five books and over 120 scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy reports. He has provided technical assistance services of various kinds to many nonprofit housing and community development organizations. Prior to becoming a full-time academic, he spent 15 years as a community development and affordable housing practitioner and advocate. His most recent book is Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First Century Atlanta (University of California Press, 2022).
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Review

Less Visible, But Still Homeless: Workers Who Can’t Afford a Place to Live

A review of Brian Goldstone’s new book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Opinion

Eviction Reduction Should Be an Explicit Goal of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program

The largest source of subsidy for building affordable housing doesn’t come with meaningful eviction reduction requirements, or even incentives. But it could.

Atlanta's BeltLine bike path bordered by new homes.
Housing

Sustainable for Whom? Large-Scale Sustainable Urban Development Projects and “Environmental Gentrification”

Absent a fundamentally new approach to redevelopment planning that places housing affordability at the center of the process, large-scale sustainable development projects are likely to become engines of what has been termed “environmental gentrification.”

Policy

The Foreclosure King Ascends to Treasury

There is considerable unease in the housing and community development world about the future of federal policy, including support for vouchers, fair housing, and other critical policies and programs. While […]

Housing

The Devil’s in the Details: Key Issues in Implementing the New AFFH Rule

For most of the Fair Housing Act’s history, its requirement to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing has been largely dormant. With the advent of the new AFFH rules in July 2015, […]

The book cover for "Preventing the Next Mortgage Crises" by Dan Immergluck.
Policy

How to Prevent the Next Mortgage Crisis

Yes, we need to finally achieve certainty in our housing finance system. But not the way most people are suggesting.

Organizing

Community Developers, Don’t Ignore This Housing Finance Reform Bill

As the U.S. emerges from the housing crisis, the fundamental architecture of mortgage markets is being decided. Although it is sometimes hard for community developers to think about topics as […]

Community Development Field

The Power of a Community-Based Development Coalition

Building sustainable coalitions is an important element to strengthening community-based development organizations (CBDOs) and increasing their influence on local and state policies. To accomplish that, coalitions benefit from favorable political […]