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Research

See full CV here

Interests

Integration; housing; poverty; inequality; urban sociology/planning; migration; the interconnectedness of housing, health, and education policy; intergroup contact; measures of social cohesion/trust; community-based participatory research; mixed-methods research; communitarianism

Publications 

  • Mleczko, Matthew and Matthew Desmond. 2023. “Using Natural Language Processing to Construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database.” Urban Studies. doi: 10.1177/00420980231156352
    • Urban Studies 2023 Best Article Shortlist
    • See the following GitHub page for data and programs
  • Mleczko, Matthew. 2024. “Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020.” Urban Affairs Review, September, 10780874241278619. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874241278619.
    • See blog post 
    • See interactive map of ethnoracial and socioeconomic integration in the metropolitan United States from 2000-2020

Articles Under Review

Revised and Resubmitted

  • Mleczko, Matthew. “The Cumulative Exposure to Exclusionary Zoning in Impoverished Neighborhoods.”

Invited to Revise and Resubmit

  • Mleczko, Matthew. “A Virtuous Cycle? Fair Housing and the Promotion of Long-Term Residential Integration.”

Under Review

  • Mleczko, Matthew. “Back to the Future: A History of Housing Navigation and Lessons for More Equitable Housing Policy.”

Works in Progress

  • Mleczko, Matthew. “The Role of Residential Integration in Promoting Successful School Integration.”
  • Mleczko, Matthew. “Using Individual-Level Data to Understand 21st Century U.S. Residential Integration.”
  • Mleczko, Matthew. “Fleeting Progress: The Temporary Nature of Federal COVID-19 Housing Assistance and Post-2022 Trends in Housing Instability and Homelessness.”
  • “Does Affordable Housing Development Drive School Integration?” with Tyler Simko.
  • “Housing Navigation as Intentional Housing Policy” with Kathe Newman.

Policy Reports