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Ben Preis

@benjaminpreis.com
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Principal, Urban Research Advisors. Housing is important and we should build more of it. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him

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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 26/06/2025
After a tremendous year of work, I'm pleased to announce that the National Housing Crisis Task Force has released its State & Local Housing Action Plan. With 15 bold ideas to address the housing shortage, we hope this plan can help local leaders act now. nationalhousingcrisis.org/app/uploads/...
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 23/11/2024
Amtrak certainly claims that they have 80% market share. www.amtrak.com/content/dam/...
A screenshot of an Amtrak fact sheet on the Northeast Corridor.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 08/01/2024
Here's what it looks like locally. While commuting backbones (below) are mostly constrained by the MSA boundaries, landlord market areas extend nationally.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 08/01/2024
I calculate the landlord market area by taking the network backbone from the landlord-property network I create. Hotspots include California, Florida, Texas, and Georgia. These are sights of large landlords, but also significant personal wealth, retirees, and more.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 08/01/2024
2) Landlords live in neighborhoods that are on average, richer, whiter, and more educated than the neighborhoods where they own property. To test for statistical significance, I create a simulated randomized network of landlord and rental locations. I run 1,000 simulations.
Mean differences between landlord neighborhood tracts' and rental property tracts. I take the difference between every landlord-rental pair, and average that difference across the entire network in a given city.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 08/01/2024
🚨🚨Just absolutely thrilled to see my first dissertation paper in print with Annals of the AAG🎉🎉 "Where the Landlords Are: A Network Approach to Landlord-Rental Locations" 🧵... doi.org/10.1080/2469...
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 02/10/2023
🎉🎉 Let me use my first post here to announce that my first dissertation paper has been accepted to the Annals of the AAG. Pre-print forthcoming to my website, and hopefully published by AAG soon! 🎉🎉
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