Lisa K. Bates

Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2006

Professor Bates’ interests lie in the connection between housing and neighborhoods, with a focus on the opportunities of low-income residents and people of color. Her research has examined the measurement of neighborhood quality, the relationship between house prices and neighborhood change, and the choices and constraints for low-income families seeking housing and neighborhoods. This research argues for the importance of the affordable housing infrastructure to both individual and community well-being. She has recently completed her dissertation examining Philadelphia’s neighborhood revitalization planning, a work that suggests planners should consider the structure of housing submarkets to improve policy formulation and avoid unintended market responses to policy.

Professor Bates teaches Housing and Urban Policy Planning (UP 473), which reviews current policy and considers the problem of affordable housing through frameworks of economics, politics, and ethics. Her teaching experience also includes affordable housing development and finance and research design and quantitative methods.

Contact Information
Room 224 Temple Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217.244.1761
Fax: 217.244.1717
E-mail: lkbates@uiuc.edu

Current Research Areas

Research interests are affordable housing policy, housing finance, neighborhood quality and change.

Selected Publications

L.K. Bates, “Do Neighborhoods Really Matter?: Comparing Historically Recognized Neighborhoods with Housing Submarket Boundaries” Journal of Planning Education and Research, forthcoming.

"The Neglect of Housing: Consequences and Policy Responses." Prepared for the Millennial Housing Commission of the U.S. Congress, 2001. With Roberto G. Quercia.

J.D. Lepofsky and L.K. Bates, 2005."Local Currency Circulation and Accumulation: A Case Study of the North Carolina PLENTY." International Journal of Community Currency Research.