UMI Research and Commentary

 
Cities
Data and Decisions: Parcel Level Information Changing the Way Business Gets Done
G. Thomas Kingsley and Kathryn L.S. Pettit, The Brookings Institution, July 08, 2008

Cities
Urban Markets Initiative Forum 2007
Anthony D. Williams, The Brookings Institution, October 18, 2007

Cities
Saluting Urban Market Pathfinders
Alyssa Stewart Lee, The Brookings Institution, May 2007

Community Development
Utility Payments as Alternative Credit Data: A Reality Check
Sara Burr and Virginia Carlson, The Brookings Institution, March 2007

Community Development
Data DNA: The Next Generation of Statistical Metadata
Cynthia M. Taeuber, Daniel W. Gillman and Laura Smith, The Brookings Institution, March 2007

U.S. Poverty
Give Credit Where Credit is Due: Increasing Access to Affordable Mainstream Credit Using Alternative Data
Alyssa Stewart Lee, Ann Schnare, Michael A. Turner, Patrick D. Walker and Robin Varghese, The Brookings Institution, December 2006

Community Development
Neighborhood Housing Markets and the Memphis Model: Linking Information to Neighborhood Action in Memphis, Tennessee
Phyllis G. Betts, The Brookings Institution, November 2006

Book
Retailers Operating at a Profit
Alyssa Stewart Lee and J. Pari Sabety, October 01, 2006

Community Development
Downtown Detroit In Focus: A Profile of Market Opportunity
The Social Compact, Inc, The Urban Markets Initiative, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program and University of Michigan Graduate Real Estate Program, The Brookings Institution, October 2006

Community Development
Measuring the Informal Economy - One Neighborhood at a Time
Jamie Alderslade, John Talmage, and Yusef Freeman, The Brookings Institution, September 2006

Cities
Tools to Avoid Disclosing Information About Individuals in Public Use Microdata Files
Cynthia Taeuber, The Brookings Institution, June 2006

Community Development
Fueling Community Development
Alyssa Stewart Lee, Social Compact National Community Advisory Council, May 25, 2006

Community Development
Fulfilling the Promise: Seven Steps to Successful Community-Based Information Strategies
Pari Sabety, The Brookings Institution, May 2006

Community Development
Barriers to Capital Access in Rebuilding the Gulf Coast
Pari Sabety, Entrepreneurship: The Foundation to Economic Renewal in the Gulf Coast Region, April 11, 2006

U.S. Politics
Apportionment in the Balance: A Look into the Progress of the 2010 Decennial Census
Andrew Reamer, House Committee on Government Reform, March 01, 2006

Community Development
The Affordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice
The Center for Neighborhood Technology and The Center for Transit-Oriented Development, The Brookings Institution, January 2006

Community Development
National Infrastructure for Community Statistics: Purpose and Process
Andrew Reamer and Rebecca Blash, ACCRA Newsletter, December 01, 2005

Community Development
Federal Statistics: Robust Information Tools for the Urban Investor
Andrew Reamer and Pari Sabety, The Brookings Institution, October 2005

Community Development
National Infrastructure for Community Statistics: An Overview
Andrew Reamer, National Science Foundation's Digital Government Research Program, May 17, 2005

Cities
Information: A Tool to Transform America's Communities?
Pari Sabety, Connecticut New Ideas Conversation Series, 5-May-05

Community Development
Halfway to the 2010 Census: The Countdown and Components to a Successful Decennial Census
Andrew Reamer, House Committee on Government Reform, 19-Apr-05

Community Development
Connecting Your Community to the Knowledge Economy
Pari Sabety, Digital City Expo, 19-Apr-05

Community Development
Market-Based Approaches to Community Economic Development
Riccardo Bodini and Robert Weissbourd, KnowledgePlex Online Chat, 30-Mar-05

Community Development
NICS and Metadata
Rebecca Blash, FedStats Task Force Briefing, 8-Mar-05

Community Development
Market-Based Community Economic Development
Riccardo Bodini and Robert Weissbourd, The Brookings Institution, March 2005

Community Development
Using Information Resources to Enhance Urban Markets
Riccardo Bodini and Robert Weissbourd, The Brookings Institution, March 2005

Community Development
The Importance of Information to Urban Markets
Pari Sabety and Virginia Carlson, The Brookings Institution, 15-Jul-04

Cities
Using Information to Drive Change: New Ways of Moving Markets
Pari Sabety and Virginia Carlson, The Brookings Institution, July 2004