Housing Policy Debate

Aims & Scope

Housing Policy Debate provides an outlet for cutting edge, original research that evaluates and informs housing and community development policy.

Subjects include affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, housing-related poverty alleviation and integration strategies, and metropolitan development trends.

The Journal also aims to explore linkages between housing policy and finance, energy, environmental, and transportation policies through interdisciplinary approaches.

The Journal seeks to highlight current debate on these topics through Forum sections that feature a central article with responding comments that represent a range of perspectives.

Housing Policy Debate also features an occasional Outlook section, where the editors and advisory board members comment on emerging areas of housing and community development research or current events.

Our objective is to capture the current thought and dynamics of housing and housing-related policy.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.9
2024	2.80

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2680

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	780

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.405

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	78

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground: Defining and measuring an elusive concept

  Citation: 959

  Authors: George, Royce, Michael R., Harold, Stephen, Jason

• Does neighborhood matter? Assessing recent evidence

  Citation: 579

  Authors: Ingrid Gould, Margery Austin

• The impact of urban form on U.S. residential energy use

  Citation: 542

  Authors: Reid, Fang

• The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Three Decades Later

  Citation: 498

  Authors: John F.

• The spatial mismatch hypothesis: A review of recent studies and their implications for welfare reform

  Citation: 440

  Authors: Keith R., David L.

• Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capital

  Citation: 412

  Authors: Xavier

• Changing the geography of opportunity by expanding residential choice: Lessons from the Gautreaux program

  Citation: 389

  Authors: James E.

• The myth of social capital in community development

  Citation: 332

  Authors: James

• The geography of metropolitan opportunity: A reconnaissance and conceptual framework

  Citation: 331

  Authors: George C., Sean P.

• What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach

  Citation: 324

  Authors: Michael E.

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