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IRES: Exploring Urban Housing Solutions from a Systems Perspective — NSF Award to University of Washington (WA, $446,545)

The Urban Housing Systems (UHS) IRES program is designed to prepare U.S. undergraduate students in urban studies and civil engineering to address real-world urban development challenges, with a particular emphasis on housing. Participating students conduct research at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, deve

Award titleIRES: Exploring Urban Housing Solutions from a Systems Perspective
Award ID2505214
AwardeeUniversity of Washington
CitySEATTLE
StateWA
Amount obligated$446,545
Principal investigatorJeffrey Walters
ProgramIntl Rsrch Exp for Stds (IRES)
Start date01/01/2026
AbstractThe Urban Housing Systems (UHS) IRES program is designed to prepare U.S. undergraduate students in urban studies and civil engineering to address real-world urban development challenges, with a particular emphasis on housing. Participating students conduct research at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, developing skills in qualitative data collection, multi-disciplinary collaboration, problem-solving, and systems thinking and modeling to analyze complex socio-technical systems. Stude
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