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Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) (UNI-019)

Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as center at DePaul University, Driehaus College of Business — Real Estate / applied research, Institute for Housing Studies (IHS), Loop (1 E. Jackson, Suite 5400). The Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) is a DePaul research center that provides analysis and data to inform affordable housing policy and practice. Public products include housing market indicators and a data portal drawn from parcel-level administrative records. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ✓

  • College / school: Driehaus College of Business — Real Estate / applied research
  • Sub-unit: Institute for Housing Studies (IHS)
  • Campus/Location: Loop (1 E. Jackson, Suite 5400)
  • Last Verified: August 21, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

The Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) is a DePaul research center that provides analysis and data to inform affordable housing policy and practice. Public products include housing market indicators and a data portal drawn from parcel-level administrative records.

ORS Annual Report FY 2026 documents active IHS awards including predictive neighborhood analytics with SPARK and VIDA for Steans Family Foundation housing portfolio work in North Lawndale (GRA-1220), statewide housing needs analysis with Metropolitan Planning Council (GRA-1221), and Schreiber Performance Tracker technical assistance (GRA-1222).

Access status

  • Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
  • Rationale: IHS provides applied housing research and technical assistance through project partnerships; not open walk-in lab access.
  • Access URL: housingstudies.org
  • Contact name: Institute for Housing Studies
  • Contact email: housingstudies@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-08-21
  • Source URLs:
  • housingstudies.org
  • www.housingstudies.org/contact
  • archived institutional source

Verification

  • Status: ✓ Confirmed
  • Rationale: Official IHS site (housingstudies.org) plus multiple ORS FY2026 awards naming the Institute.
  • Last verified: 2026-08-21
  • Evidence:
  • https://housingstudies.org/
  • ORS Annual Report FY2026 IHS/SPARK and related housing awards (archived institutional source)

Equipment

Applied research institute; data clearinghouse/portal — not a shared instrument facility.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Notes

Promoted 2026-08-21 from ORS Annual Report FY2026 report after official-site discovery. Do not invent PER-* for Geoff Smith until people-records review.