Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore spatiotemporal factors that affect the empirical analysis of whether crime rates in buffer areas surrounding abandoned properties transferred to a Land Bank that differed among three regimes: before transfer, during Land Bank stewardship and...

Purpose: The paper explores the emergence of the “big data regime” and the disruption that it is causing for the real estate industry. The paper defines big data and illustrates how an inductive, big data approach can help improve decision-making. Design/methodology/approach: The paper...

Abstract Human service nonprofit organizations have increasingly been called upon to produce public services as governments have sought to devolve responsibility to private organizations. Just as stress tests have used accounting indicators to determine the distress of banks, this article uses...

Abstract Place matters in human services. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) devolves spending to services, most often provided by nonprofit organizations. We argue that this devolution allows for people to “vote with their feet” (Ostrom, Tiebout, and Warren 1961: “The...