Dustin C Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dustin C Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dustin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8978-3456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public perceptions of for-profit and nonprofit affordable rental housing providers
Ten pieces of advice U.S. municipal planners should follow when evaluating prospective affordable housing partners
Existing research suggests that municipal planners in the United States are well positioned to help local governments advance affordable housing goals. Yet few studies offer members of the profession guidance they can follow to do this in context-specific situations. This practice review article recognizes the gap in the literature and seeks to fill it in part. It does so by presenting 10 pieces of advice U.S. municipal planners should follow whe…
Managing the threat of decoupling in the U.S. affordable housing industry
Decoupling, or the practice of communicating different organizational values and goals than those rigorously pursued, is a concept discussed in the organization theory literature. Organizations engage in it when their legitimacy hinges on obtaining the support of stakeholders with disparate interests, and they attempt to appease some stakeholders with words and others with actions. One problem with decoupling is that it can lead organizations to …
Resident service coordinators as an underutilized resource in the design and development of affordable housing
Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with industry professionals, this study considers whether barriers to collaboration prevent affordable housing developers in the U.S. from collaborating with resident service coordinators when making development decisions. Results suggest executives working in both fields perceive barriers to collaboration to exist, many of which stem from competing interests, financial concerns, and organizational culture…
Assembling land for urban revitalization in the presence of linchpin parcels and information asymmetries: An experimental investigation
The Bounded and Pragmatic Consultant: Fiscal Impact Analysts as Rational Actors
This article examines how fiscal impact analysts retained by municipal governments across the United States approach their work. Consistent with theories of rationality found in the extant literature, the results suggest these third-party consultants do not view themselves solely as technicians responsible for generating the most accurate studies possible. Rather, they rely on heuristics to enhance the defensibility, interpretability, and tractab…
Views from the Field: Economic Development Practitioners’ Perceptions About Public-Private Real Estate Partnerships
Survey data and a series of ordinal logistic regression models are used in this study to determine if individuals employed in different economic development capacities exhibit perceptual congruence or perceptual dissonance about public-private real estate partnerships in ways that are consistent with growth machine theory. The results offer some evidence that this is the case by showing that economic development practitioners employed by local go…
A Gendered Perspective on Local Economic Development: Differences in the Perceived Importance of Public Services in the Business Recruitment Process
This study uses data from a national survey of economic developers working in local government to explore gender differences in the perceived importance of public services in the business recruitment process. The results of a series of ordinal logistic regression models suggest women are more likely than men to believe public service quality and availability are important concerns for companies considering their region. These findings are consist…
Analyzing form-based zoning’s potential to stimulate mixed-use development in different economic environments
Toward Understanding Another Gender Gap: How Women in Economic Development Perceive Access to Capital
This study uses survey data collected from members of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) to assess gender differences in the perceptions of female economic developers involved in the policy process. The analysis reveals women are more likely than their male counterparts to believe access to capital serves as a barrier to economic development in the communities they serve. This finding is important because bureaucratic perceptio…
The impact of an adequate public facilities ordinance on the sale price of single-family housing in Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Hedonic modeling techniques and a difference-in-difference identification strategy were used in this study to examine the impact of an adequate public facilities ordinance (APFO) on the sale price of single-family housing in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Plans to increase development fees collected as part of this land-use regulation were found to put upward pressure on existing housing prices in the 30 month period immediately following the a…
Local Politics, Organized Interests, and Land-Use Policy: A Research Note Analyzing the Perceptions of Urban Planners Working in City Government
This research note examines the influence of organized interests in the land-use policy-making process from the perspective of urban planners employed in city government. Perceptions of these professionals are evaluated using a series of regression models controlling for the mitigating effects of government structure, mayoral partisanship, community characteristics, and the personal attributes of the respondents participating in the research. The…
Does Sector Matter? An Analysis of Planners’ Attitudes Regarding Politics and Competing Interests in the Planning Process
Both communicative planning theory and competing values models of public administration suggest attitudinal differences should exist between planners employed by private firms and those employed by government entities to the extent the perceptions of the former group are influenced by market forces to a greater degree than the latter. To test this, nine ordinal regression models were estimated using data collected from a national survey of 1,299 …
Does Sector Matter? An Analysis of Planners’ Attitudes Regarding Politics and Competing Interests in the Planning Process
Both communicative planning theory and competing values models of public administration suggest attitudinal differences should exist between planners employed by private firms and those employed by government entities to the extent the perceptions of the former group are influenced by market forces to a greater degree than the latter. To test this, nine ordinal regression models were estimated using data collected from a national survey of 1,299 …
Resident service coordinators as an underutilized resource in the design and development of affordable housing
Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with industry professionals, this study considers whether barriers to collaboration prevent affordable housing developers in the U.S. from collaborating with resident service coordinators when making development decisions. Results suggest executives working in both fields perceive barriers to collaboration to exist, many of which stem from competing interests, financial concerns, and organizational culture…
Local Politics, Organized Interests, and Land-Use Policy: A Research Note Analyzing the Perceptions of Urban Planners Working in City Government
This research note examines the influence of organized interests in the land-use policy-making process from the perspective of urban planners employed in city government. Perceptions of these professionals are evaluated using a series of regression models controlling for the mitigating effects of government structure, mayoral partisanship, community characteristics, and the personal attributes of the respondents participating in the research. The…
Managing the threat of decoupling in the U.S. affordable housing industry
Decoupling, or the practice of communicating different organizational values and goals than those rigorously pursued, is a concept discussed in the organization theory literature. Organizations engage in it when their legitimacy hinges on obtaining the support of stakeholders with disparate interests, and they attempt to appease some stakeholders with words and others with actions. One problem with decoupling is that it can lead organizations to …
Assembling land for urban revitalization in the presence of linchpin parcels and information asymmetries: An experimental investigation
A Gendered Perspective on Local Economic Development: Differences in the Perceived Importance of Public Services in the Business Recruitment Process
This study uses data from a national survey of economic developers working in local government to explore gender differences in the perceived importance of public services in the business recruitment process. The results of a series of ordinal logistic regression models suggest women are more likely than men to believe public service quality and availability are important concerns for companies considering their region. These findings are consist…
Analyzing form-based zoning’s potential to stimulate mixed-use development in different economic environments
Views from the Field: Economic Development Practitioners’ Perceptions About Public-Private Real Estate Partnerships
Survey data and a series of ordinal logistic regression models are used in this study to determine if individuals employed in different economic development capacities exhibit perceptual congruence or perceptual dissonance about public-private real estate partnerships in ways that are consistent with growth machine theory. The results offer some evidence that this is the case by showing that economic development practitioners employed by local go…
Toward Understanding Another Gender Gap: How Women in Economic Development Perceive Access to Capital
This study uses survey data collected from members of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) to assess gender differences in the perceptions of female economic developers involved in the policy process. The analysis reveals women are more likely than their male counterparts to believe access to capital serves as a barrier to economic development in the communities they serve. This finding is important because bureaucratic perceptio…
Does Sector Matter? An Analysis of Planners’ Attitudes Regarding Politics and Competing Interests in the Planning Process
Both communicative planning theory and competing values models of public administration suggest attitudinal differences should exist between planners employed by private firms and those employed by government entities to the extent the perceptions of the former group are influenced by market forces to a greater degree than the latter. To test this, nine ordinal regression models were estimated using data collected from a national survey of 1,299 …
Local Politics, Organized Interests, and Land-Use Policy: A Research Note Analyzing the Perceptions of Urban Planners Working in City Government
This research note examines the influence of organized interests in the land-use policy-making process from the perspective of urban planners employed in city government. Perceptions of these professionals are evaluated using a series of regression models controlling for the mitigating effects of government structure, mayoral partisanship, community characteristics, and the personal attributes of the respondents participating in the research. The…
The impact of an adequate public facilities ordinance on the sale price of single-family housing in Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Hedonic modeling techniques and a difference-in-difference identification strategy were used in this study to examine the impact of an adequate public facilities ordinance (APFO) on the sale price of single-family housing in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Plans to increase development fees collected as part of this land-use regulation were found to put upward pressure on existing housing prices in the 30 month period immediately following the a…
Analyzing form-based zoning’s potential to stimulate mixed-use development in different economic environments
Toward Understanding Another Gender Gap: How Women in Economic Development Perceive Access to Capital
This study uses survey data collected from members of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) to assess gender differences in the perceptions of female economic developers involved in the policy process. The analysis reveals women are more likely than their male counterparts to believe access to capital serves as a barrier to economic development in the communities they serve. This finding is important because bureaucratic perceptio…
The Bounded and Pragmatic Consultant: Fiscal Impact Analysts as Rational Actors
This article examines how fiscal impact analysts retained by municipal governments across the United States approach their work. Consistent with theories of rationality found in the extant literature, the results suggest these third-party consultants do not view themselves solely as technicians responsible for generating the most accurate studies possible. Rather, they rely on heuristics to enhance the defensibility, interpretability, and tractab…
Views from the Field: Economic Development Practitioners’ Perceptions About Public-Private Real Estate Partnerships
Survey data and a series of ordinal logistic regression models are used in this study to determine if individuals employed in different economic development capacities exhibit perceptual congruence or perceptual dissonance about public-private real estate partnerships in ways that are consistent with growth machine theory. The results offer some evidence that this is the case by showing that economic development practitioners employed by local go…
A Gendered Perspective on Local Economic Development: Differences in the Perceived Importance of Public Services in the Business Recruitment Process
This study uses data from a national survey of economic developers working in local government to explore gender differences in the perceived importance of public services in the business recruitment process. The results of a series of ordinal logistic regression models suggest women are more likely than men to believe public service quality and availability are important concerns for companies considering their region. These findings are consist…
Assembling land for urban revitalization in the presence of linchpin parcels and information asymmetries: An experimental investigation
Resident service coordinators as an underutilized resource in the design and development of affordable housing
Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with industry professionals, this study considers whether barriers to collaboration prevent affordable housing developers in the U.S. from collaborating with resident service coordinators when making development decisions. Results suggest executives working in both fields perceive barriers to collaboration to exist, many of which stem from competing interests, financial concerns, and organizational culture…
Ten pieces of advice U.S. municipal planners should follow when evaluating prospective affordable housing partners
Existing research suggests that municipal planners in the United States are well positioned to help local governments advance affordable housing goals. Yet few studies offer members of the profession guidance they can follow to do this in context-specific situations. This practice review article recognizes the gap in the literature and seeks to fill it in part. It does so by presenting 10 pieces of advice U.S. municipal planners should follow whe…
Managing the threat of decoupling in the U.S. affordable housing industry
Decoupling, or the practice of communicating different organizational values and goals than those rigorously pursued, is a concept discussed in the organization theory literature. Organizations engage in it when their legitimacy hinges on obtaining the support of stakeholders with disparate interests, and they attempt to appease some stakeholders with words and others with actions. One problem with decoupling is that it can lead organizations to …
Public perceptions of for-profit and nonprofit affordable rental housing providers
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