Professor Emeritus of community planning, public policy, and social justice | Professor Stone passed away in 2015.
For more than 45 years Michael E. Stone, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of community planning, public policy and social justice, University of Massachusetts Boston) has been involved in teaching, research, policy analysis, program development, technical assistance and advocacy on housing, living standards and participatory planning. He works with local community groups, city and state agencies, and national advocacy organizations. He is the author of more than 50 reports, articles and chapters, and 4 books. His book Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability has been called “the definitive book on housing and social justice in the United States.” His co-authored/co-edited work, A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, published in 2006, has been called “a landmark in progressive housing thought.”
There are four major facets to Stone’s research and professional activity. The first is the problem of housing affordability, as defined and measured through the concept of “shelter poverty,” which he first formulated in the early 1970s. The shelter poverty standard is a sliding scale of housing affordability that reflects the interaction among incomes, housing costs and the basic costs of non-shelter necessities. It is conceptually superior to and a more finely honed instrument for assessing affordability and determining housing assistance needs than the conventional percentage of income approach. Since his book Shelter Poverty was published in 1993 he has continued to update his analysis of shelter poverty. One of the chapters in A Right to Housing examines shelter poverty trends nationally from 1970 through the early 2000s. Over the past decade he has also been giving particular attention to shelter poverty in Boston and Massachusetts, presented in a series of reports from the Center for Social Policy and the Gaston, Trotter and Asian-American Institutes at UMass Boston. Both nationally and locally his studies of shelter poverty have not only examined the problem in the aggregate, but focused on shelter poverty among households headed by persons of color, women and elderly.
The second major facet of Stone’s work has been on the political economy of housing in the U.S., with particular attention to the structure and dynamics of the housing finance system. Indeed, apart from the attention to his work on shelter poverty, much of his national reputation has been a result of this work. One of the chapters he wrote for A Right to Housing updated his analysis, in which he predicted the current mortgage and financial crisis.
The third aspect of Stone’s housing research has been on housing policy. While he has studied and written extensively on the various contours of housing policy in the U.S., his attention has focused increasingly on models of social ownership – housing outside of the speculative market under various forms of resident and community control – including limited-equity co-operatives and condominiums, mutual housing associations, community land trusts, as well as non-profit and public ownership. A chapter in Shelter Poverty is on models of and experiences with social ownership of housing in the U.S., revised and updated as a chapter for A Right to Housing.
The fourth major facet of Stone’s research has consisted of several dozen collaborative action research projects on issues of housing, participatory planning and community change. Most of this work has been locally focused, with teams of researchers in active partnership with community organizations and coalitions.
During 2002-2003, Professor Stone spent ten months in Britain as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. Based at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, he studied Shelter Poverty and Social Housing in the UK through the lens of his work on these issues in the US. During 2009-2010 he spent six months as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. During that time he gave nearly two dozen invited lectures and professional seminars in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. He obtained a grant from the Victoria Department of Planning and Community Development to create a Residual Income Home Purchaser Affordability Model. He also obtained a grant from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) for a collaborative research and policy analysis project on Residual Incomes in Australia.
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There are four major facets to Stone’s research and professional activity. The first is the problem of housing affordability, as defined and measured through the concept of “shelter poverty,” which he first formulated in the early 1970s. The shelter poverty standard is a sliding scale of housing affordability that reflects the interaction among incomes, housing costs and the basic costs of non-shelter necessities. It is conceptually superior to and a more finely honed instrument for assessing affordability and determining housing assistance needs than the conventional percentage of income approach. Since his book Shelter Poverty was published in 1993 he has continued to update his analysis of shelter poverty. One of the chapters in A Right to Housing examines shelter poverty trends nationally from 1970 through the early 2000s. Over the past decade he has also been giving particular attention to shelter poverty in Boston and Massachusetts, presented in a series of reports from the Center for Social Policy and the Gaston, Trotter and Asian-American Institutes at UMass Boston. Both nationally and locally his studies of shelter poverty have not only examined the problem in the aggregate, but focused on shelter poverty among households headed by persons of color, women and elderly.
The second major facet of Stone’s work has been on the political economy of housing in the U.S., with particular attention to the structure and dynamics of the housing finance system. Indeed, apart from the attention to his work on shelter poverty, much of his national reputation has been a result of this work. One of the chapters he wrote for A Right to Housing updated his analysis, in which he predicted the current mortgage and financial crisis.
The third aspect of Stone’s housing research has been on housing policy. While he has studied and written extensively on the various contours of housing policy in the U.S., his attention has focused increasingly on models of social ownership – housing outside of the speculative market under various forms of resident and community control – including limited-equity co-operatives and condominiums, mutual housing associations, community land trusts, as well as non-profit and public ownership. A chapter in Shelter Poverty is on models of and experiences with social ownership of housing in the U.S., revised and updated as a chapter for A Right to Housing.
The fourth major facet of Stone’s research has consisted of several dozen collaborative action research projects on issues of housing, participatory planning and community change. Most of this work has been locally focused, with teams of researchers in active partnership with community organizations and coalitions.
During 2002-2003, Professor Stone spent ten months in Britain as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. Based at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, he studied Shelter Poverty and Social Housing in the UK through the lens of his work on these issues in the US. During 2009-2010 he spent six months as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. During that time he gave nearly two dozen invited lectures and professional seminars in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. He obtained a grant from the Victoria Department of Planning and Community Development to create a Residual Income Home Purchaser Affordability Model. He also obtained a grant from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) for a collaborative research and policy analysis project on Residual Incomes in Australia.
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About Michael E. Stone
For more than 45 years Michael E. Stone, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of community planning, public policy and social justice, University of Massachusetts Boston) has been involved in teaching, research, policy analysis, program development, technical assistance and advocacy on housing, living standards and participatory planning. He works with local community groups, city and state agencies, and national advocacy organizations. He is the author of more than 50 reports, articles and chapters, and 4 books. His book Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability has been called “the definitive book on housing and social justice in the United States.” His co-authored/co-edited work, A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, published in 2006, has been called “a landmark in progressive housing thought.”
There are four major facets to Stone’s research and professional activity. The first is the problem of housing affordability, as defined and measured through the concept of “shelter poverty,” which he first formulated in the early 1970s. The shelter poverty standard is a sliding scale of housing affordability that reflects the interaction among incomes, housing costs and the basic costs of non-shelter necessities. It is conceptually superior to and a more finely honed instrument for assessing affordability and determining housing assistance needs than the conventional percentage of income approach. Since his book Shelter Poverty was published in 1993 he has continued to update his analysis of shelter poverty. One of the chapters in A Right to Housing examines shelter poverty trends nationally from 1970 through the early 2000s. Over the past decade he has also been giving particular attention to shelter poverty in Boston and Massachusetts, presented in a series of reports from the Center for Social Policy and the Gaston, Trotter and Asian-American Institutes at UMass Boston. Both nationally and locally his studies of shelter poverty have not only examined the problem in the aggregate, but focused on shelter poverty among households headed by persons of color, women and elderly.
The second major facet of Stone’s work has been on the political economy of housing in the U.S., with particular attention to the structure and dynamics of the housing finance system. Indeed, apart from the attention to his work on shelter poverty, much of his national reputation has been a result of this work. One of the chapters he wrote for A Right to Housing updated his analysis, in which he predicted the current mortgage and financial crisis.
The third aspect of Stone’s housing research has been on housing policy. While he has studied and written extensively on the various contours of housing policy in the U.S., his attention has focused increasingly on models of social ownership – housing outside of the speculative market under various forms of resident and community control – including limited-equity co-operatives and condominiums, mutual housing associations, community land trusts, as well as non-profit and public ownership. A chapter in Shelter Poverty is on models of and experiences with social ownership of housing in the U.S., revised and updated as a chapter for A Right to Housing.
The fourth major facet of Stone’s research has consisted of several dozen collaborative action research projects on issues of housing, participatory planning and community change. Most of this work has been locally focused, with teams of researchers in active partnership with community organizations and coalitions.
During 2002-2003, Professor Stone spent ten months in Britain as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. Based at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, he studied Shelter Poverty and Social Housing in the UK through the lens of his work on these issues in the US. During 2009-2010 he spent six months as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. During that time he gave nearly two dozen invited lectures and professional seminars in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. He obtained a grant from the Victoria Department of Planning and Community Development to create a Residual Income Home Purchaser Affordability Model. He also obtained a grant from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) for a collaborative research and policy analysis project on Residual Incomes in Australia.
There are four major facets to Stone’s research and professional activity. The first is the problem of housing affordability, as defined and measured through the concept of “shelter poverty,” which he first formulated in the early 1970s. The shelter poverty standard is a sliding scale of housing affordability that reflects the interaction among incomes, housing costs and the basic costs of non-shelter necessities. It is conceptually superior to and a more finely honed instrument for assessing affordability and determining housing assistance needs than the conventional percentage of income approach. Since his book Shelter Poverty was published in 1993 he has continued to update his analysis of shelter poverty. One of the chapters in A Right to Housing examines shelter poverty trends nationally from 1970 through the early 2000s. Over the past decade he has also been giving particular attention to shelter poverty in Boston and Massachusetts, presented in a series of reports from the Center for Social Policy and the Gaston, Trotter and Asian-American Institutes at UMass Boston. Both nationally and locally his studies of shelter poverty have not only examined the problem in the aggregate, but focused on shelter poverty among households headed by persons of color, women and elderly.
The second major facet of Stone’s work has been on the political economy of housing in the U.S., with particular attention to the structure and dynamics of the housing finance system. Indeed, apart from the attention to his work on shelter poverty, much of his national reputation has been a result of this work. One of the chapters he wrote for A Right to Housing updated his analysis, in which he predicted the current mortgage and financial crisis.
The third aspect of Stone’s housing research has been on housing policy. While he has studied and written extensively on the various contours of housing policy in the U.S., his attention has focused increasingly on models of social ownership – housing outside of the speculative market under various forms of resident and community control – including limited-equity co-operatives and condominiums, mutual housing associations, community land trusts, as well as non-profit and public ownership. A chapter in Shelter Poverty is on models of and experiences with social ownership of housing in the U.S., revised and updated as a chapter for A Right to Housing.
The fourth major facet of Stone’s research has consisted of several dozen collaborative action research projects on issues of housing, participatory planning and community change. Most of this work has been locally focused, with teams of researchers in active partnership with community organizations and coalitions.
During 2002-2003, Professor Stone spent ten months in Britain as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. Based at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, he studied Shelter Poverty and Social Housing in the UK through the lens of his work on these issues in the US. During 2009-2010 he spent six months as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. During that time he gave nearly two dozen invited lectures and professional seminars in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. He obtained a grant from the Victoria Department of Planning and Community Development to create a Residual Income Home Purchaser Affordability Model. He also obtained a grant from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) for a collaborative research and policy analysis project on Residual Incomes in Australia.
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