Description: The USC Lusk Center for Real Estate is pleased to announce the availability of research stipends to become available in July 2022. The stipends will facilitate high-quality research that will eventually get published in the leading scientific journals. The broad topics should be related to real estate and urban issues. The Lusk Center is especially interested in proposals that focus on housing and real estate finance, non-residential real estate, urban entrepreneurship, transportation and land use, urban poverty and segregation, neighborhood change, and local taxes and housing regulation. Studies can focus on the U.S. or any other country.
Award: Up to $25,000 for faculty members and $15,000 for postdocs or Ph.D. students. Funds can cover faculty compensation or expenses for data acquisition, research assistance, travel, etc.
Eligibility: Faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and Ph.D. students at USC are eligible to apply.
Deadline: April 29, 2022