Rebuilding the Research Capacity at HUD (2008) / Chapter Skim
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10 Loss of Capacity and Its Consequences
10 Loss of Capacity and Its Consequences
Pages 179-186
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By several measures, the budgetary resources available to PD&R for research and evaluation activities (independent of basic data collection activities) have declined by roughly two-thirds in less than a decade.
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Declining funds available to conduct major external research studies has led to an internal research agenda-setting process that is isolated from the larger scholarly community and less likely to produce work that will continue to significantly expand the bounds of knowledge about how HUD programs can be enhanced or about other vital urban issues. In addition, the flagship of PD&R's stable of surveys, the American Housing Survey (AHS)
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181 SOURCE: Unpublished data from HUD, Office of Policy Development and Research. Figure 10-1, Landscape
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In concert, PD&R's more limited agenda and data sets; declines in the scale, scope, and significance of its internal and external research, evaluation, and policy development work; and unrealized effectiveness in dissemination have profound consequences for PD&R that have both internal and external dimensions. Internally, PD&R is steadily becoming less ambitious and creative in establishing agendas and developing research projects, no doubt as a function of the diminishing research and technology budget.
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Moreover, potentially valuable administrative data and data produced by external researchers have either not been made available for internal or public use or have been made available only with a long lag, as a result of the same downward spiral. The costs to potential both external users (private housing industry, community development groups, government officials, policy advocates, urban scholars, etc.)
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Metropolitan Labor Markets and Productivity PD&R has not systematically investigated the spatial linkages among urban workplaces and between workplaces and residential areas and the potential gains in the economic efficiency of cities associated with r earranging these linkages through policy interventions. Basic research has documented sizeable efficiency gains from the agglomeration of economic activity in cities, in neighborhoods, and in regions through urbanization and specialization of economic activity.
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For example, deeper understandings of the relations between suburban and central city workplace concentrations could provide a framework for more cooperative regional governance and improve the ability to alleviate concentrated urban poverty, while successful formulas for achieving agglomeration could allow for proactive design of transportation systems. These issues related to emerging metropolitan labor market linkages and productivity could be systematically explored in PD&R-supported research.
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If left unchecked, this process will increasingly limit PD&R's ability to carry out high-quality research, evaluation, data collection, and dissemination activities. Such a development would poorly serve the public interest generally and the hundreds of millions of people living, working, and investing in metropolitan areas.
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