Yael Nidam

Biographic Data

ID1727809
NAMEYael Nidam
GIVEN NAMESYael
FAMILY NAMENidam
SIGNATURENIDAM Y
AFFILIATIONSNeighborhood Health
ORCID0000-0002-2637-3054
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Manufacturing Urban Form

    Open AccessZachary Lamb, Yael Nidam et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Planning…2026

    Problem, research strategy, and findings Manufactured home parks (MHPs), often called mobile home parks or trailer parks, are an important source of affordable housing in communities across the United States. These neighborhoods are understudied and stigmatized. In this article, we analyze morphological characteristics of MHPs that can affect many aspects of residents’ lives, asking: To what extent do manufactured home parks embody characteristic…

  • Practicing data inclusion

    Open AccessYael Nidam, Reann Gibson et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2025

    Co-creation of urban data and informatics with community partners facilitates the development of insights and actions that are grounded in residents’ experiences and aimed at achieving social change. Despite rising interest in co-creation strategies, instructive guidance on implementation remains scarce. To address the shortage of instructive guidance, we provide a detailed account of how the resident, community, and institutional partners in the…

  • Census-based urban building energy modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of retrofit programs

    Open AccessYael Nidam, Ali Irani et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2023

    Housing retrofits are essential for meeting societal decarbonization goals, alongside addressing energy insecurity, improving public health, and creating new jobs. Yet, despite their multiple benefits and comprehensive government efforts to incentivize retrofits, adoption rates across the world remain low, usually less than 1% per year. Barriers to adoption among homeowners include lack of knowledge of what combination of energy retrofitting upgr…

  • The Art and Science of Urban Gun Violence Reduction

    Open AccessJason Corburn, Yael Nidam et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2022Cited by: 3References: 5

    Urban gun violence is a critical human health and social justice issue. Strategies to reduce urban gun violence are increasingly being taken out of the domain of police and into community-based programs. One such community-driven gun violence reduction program analyzed here is called Advance Peace. Advance Peace (AP) uses street outreach workers as violence interrupters and adult mentors to support the decision making and life chances of those at…

  • Ownership of change

    Open AccessAlfred Binet, Andrew Binet et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 7References: 28

    Processes of neighborhood change are important determinants of health. One salient dimension of the experience of neighborhood changes is a person's evolving sense of empowerment over the changes around them, such as development of new housing or shifts in economic opportunity. Community residents collaborating on a Participatory Action Research study developed the novel construct "ownership of change" to capture this psychosocial process, and hy…

  • Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts

    Open AccessMariana C Arcaya, Yael Nidam et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 6References: 10

    We explore whether housing displacement pressure could help explain place-based disparities in Massachusetts COVID-19 prevalence. We use qualitative data from the Healthy Neighborhoods Study to illustrate how rising and unaffordable housing costs are experienced by residents in municipalities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. We then predict municipal-level COVID-19 case rates as a function of home value increases and housing cost burden p…