Denise DiPasquale is president and founder of City Research, a research firm focused on urban economics and policy issues. DiPasquale was on the faculty at the University of Chicago from 1995 through 1998. From 1988 to 1995, DiPasquale served on the faculties of the Department of Economics and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to Harvard, she served on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon and MIT. She also spent two years working in the Office of Strategic Planning at Fannie Mae. She received her B.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University and her Ph.D. from MIT.
DiPasquale's research focuses on various aspects of urban economics. Recent research projects include an examination of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program funded by the National Community Development Initiative. In addition, DiPasquale is investigating household investments in neighborhood quality by income, race, and family type. She is also working on the role of homeownership in encouraging households to invest in their local communities. DiPasquale is examining the housing and location choices of low- and moderate-income households in the City of Philadelphia.
DiPasquale's textbook, Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets, (with William C. Wheaton), was published by Prentice Hall in 1996. Other recent publications include:
She was co-director of the MIT Housing Policy Project, which asked leading scholars and practitioners from across the country to reappraise key policy issues of housing affordability, availability, and quality. Their evaluations were published in a book edited by DiPasquale and Langley C. Keyes, Building Foundations: Housing and Federal Policy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990, reprinted in 1992. This project provided the background research for the National Housing Task Force, which was largely responsible for the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990. In addition, from 1989 to 1992, DiPasquale was co-author with William C. Apgar of The State of the Nation's Housing, the annual report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.