Metropolitan Policy Center Publications

Part of MPC's mission is to cultivate innovative cross-disciplinary metropolitan and urban research that helps to improve people's lives and public policy. We've accomplished this again and again by producing numerous publications with our findings. In the six years that we've been around, we've published 11 books and 163+ articles, completed 6 projects, and presented in over 115 countries & locations.

Books

The Politics of Staying Put

The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy

by Carolyn Gallaher

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Capital Dilemma

Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, D.C.

by Derek Hyra and Sabiyha Price

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Building Walls

Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States

by Ernesto Castañeda

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Indigenous DC

Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation's Capital

by Elizabeth Rule

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Corruption Plots

Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist

by Malini Ranganathan and David Pike

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A Man among Other Men

A Man among Other Men

by Jordanna Matlon

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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

by Derek Hyra

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Locally Played

Locally Played: Real-World Games for Stronger Places and Communities

by Benjamin Stokes

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Cradle to Kindergarten

Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality

by Taryn Morrissey

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A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

by Ernesto Castañeda

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Slow and Sudden Violence book cover

Slow and Sudden Violence

by Derek Hyra

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Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

by Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks

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Neighborhoods

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  • Pike, D. “Slum,” A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism.
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Gentrification

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Health & Education

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Race & Diversity

 

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Inequality

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Housing & Community

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Project Publications

DC Area Survey

DC Area Survey

Studying neighborhood and resident well-being in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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SBA Lending

SBA Lending

An analysis of the equity and efficiency challenges of the Small Business Administration's lending programs.

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Making the Just City Drawing

Making the Just City

An interdisciplinary, comparative, CBPA research project investigating how housing, community change, and health are connected.

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Capitol Building Illustration

The Roadmap Initiative

An investigation into aspects of the Washington area's regional economy.

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Earned Income Tax Credit

An analysis of the effects of the federal EITC program within Washington, D.C.

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Walkability Policy Brief Chart

Walkability Preference Policy Brief

A roundtable discussion about the "walkability preference" proposal put forward by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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