On Air
WSJ — Nashville is growing too fast NYT — Reversing years of neglect on a hill above Nashville NPR — In Music City, rents keep going up BBC — 30,000 queue for housing in Atlanta WPLN — Overhauling public housing is expensive U.S. House — Testimony on the future of public housing WSJ — Nashville is growing too fast NYT — Reversing years of neglect on a hill above Nashville NPR — In Music City, rents keep going up BBC — 30,000 queue for housing in Atlanta WPLN — Overhauling public housing is expensive U.S. House — Testimony on the future of public housing
On the Record · Press & Public Scholarship

The research, in the press.

For three decades, Fraser's work on housing, displacement, and disaster has made the front page and the airwaves — from the Wall Street Journal to the BBC, and from local op-eds to testimony before the U.S. House.

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Affiliate stations

Outlets that have carried the work, in print and on air, between 2006 and 2018.
The Wall Street Journal
Print
The New York Times
Print
NPR
National radio
BBC
International
WPLN
Nashville Public Radio
Al Jazeera America
Broadcast
The Boston Globe
Print
WNYC
Public radio
HuffPost
Digital
Voice of America
Broadcast
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Press clippings

Selected coverage quoting or featuring the research.
The Wall Street Journal2018
As Nashville Rapidly Expands, Residents Worry the Metropolis Is Growing Too Fast
C. McWhirterRead the story
The New York Times2012
Reversing Years of Neglect on a Hill Above Nashville
B. Allyn
NPR2015
In Music City, Rents Keep Going Up and Up
E. SinerListen
BBC2010
30,000 Queue for Housing Assistance in Atlanta
K. Connolly
Nashville Public Radio (WPLN)2017
Overhauling Public Housing Is Expensive
M. KnightListen
Al Jazeera America2015
Nashville's Boom Prices Out Low-Income, Middle-Class Residents
P. MoskowitzRead the story
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Bulletins from the desk

Op-eds and public scholarship — the argument, made directly to the cities it concerns.
2018
Open Letter to Nashville and Our Next Mayor on Affordable Housing
The Tennessean · with A. Palmer
2017
Tax Those Who've Gained from Public Investment in Over-the-Rhine
Cincinnati.com · with J. Diskin & T. A. Dutton · PDF
2016
A Just Nashville Means Community Housing, Not Capitalism
The Tennessean · with S. Bailey
2015
Nashvillians Should Have the Right to Stay Put
The Tennessean · with A. Thurber · PDF
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Additional op-eds on displacement and the right to the city
The Tennessean & Cincinnati.com, 2015–2017
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Special broadcast

A career high-water mark for research-into-policy.
Live from Washington · July 29, 2009

Academic Perspectives on the Future of Public Housing

Invited testimony before the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, U.S. House of Representatives — bringing a decade of research on HOPE VI, displacement, and mixed-income redevelopment directly to the lawmakers writing federal housing policy.

Read the official hearing record (GPO) ▸

U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.