Ted Koebel

Ted Koebel

Professor and Chair
Urban Affairs and Planning
http://www.uap.vt.edu/faculty/koebel.html

Office: 302 Architecture Annex, Blacksburg
Phone: (540) 231-0412
Email: tkoebel at vt.edu

B.S., English, Philosophy, & Psychology, Xavier University, 1969
M.S., Urban and Community Planning, University of Cincinnati, 1973
Ph.D., Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers University, 1979



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Previous positions:
2005-07 Chair, Urban Affairs and Planning Program, CAUS, Virginia Tech
2006- Senior Associate. Center for Housing Research, Virginia Tech
1990-2006 Director.  Center for Housing Research, Virginia Tech
1990-99 Associate Professor of Housing and Urban Planning,  CAUS and College of Human Resources and Education, Virginia Tech
1987-1990 Associate Director.  Urban Studies Center, College of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville
1987-1990 Associate Research Professor, School of Urban Policy, University of Louisville
1985-1986 Associate Director for Research.  Urban Studies Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

Books and Monographs

Dawkins, C. J., T. Koebel, M. Cavell, S. Hullibarger and D. Hattis. Forthcoming. Regulatory Barriers to Manufactured Housing Placement in Urban Communities. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Koebel, C. T., C. J. Dawkins, and M. Cavell.  2008. Regulatory Barriers to Manufactured Housing Placement in Urban Communities. US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
 
McFarland, C., C. J. Dawkins, C. T. Koebel. 2007. The State of America’s Cities 2007. Local Housing Conditions and Contexts: A Framework for Policy Making.  National League of Cities.

Koebel, C. T. and M. Cavell. 2006. Characteristics of Innovative Production Home Builders.  US Department of Housing and Urban Development. With Marilyn Cavell.

Koebel, C. T., R. Lang and K. Danielson. 2004. Community Acceptance of Affordable Housing. National Association of Realtors Research Foundation.

Koebel, C. T. and J. Beamish. 2004. Evaluation of the National Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity Program. US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Wakefield, R., and C. T. Koebel. 2004. International Review of Residential Building Technology Research Programs. US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Koebel, C. T., M. Papadakis, E. Hudson and M. Cavell. 2003. Diffusion of Residential Building Technology.  US Department of  Housing and Urban Development. 

Koebel, C. T., 1998. Editor. Shelter and Society: Theory, Research and Policy for Nonprofit Housing. SUNY Press.

Koebel, C. T., 1996. Urban Redevelopment, Displacement, and the Future of the American City.  The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

 

Articles

Koebel, C. T. 2008. “Innovation in Home Building and the Future of Housing.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 74(1):45-58.

Gomez Jimenez, M. L. and C. T. Koebel, 2008. “Public Initiatives and Social Needs: An American and Spanish Perspective on Housing,”  The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 5, pp.105-112.

Gomez Jimenez, M. L. and C. T. Koebel, 2006.  “A Comparison of Spanish and American Housing Policy Frameworks Addressing Housing for the Elderly,” Journal of Housing for the Elderly. 20(4): 23-37.

Syal, M.,  M. Hastak, M. Mullens, S. Cramer, E. Burnett, C. T. Koebel, M. O’Brien, and C. Martin. 2004. “Housing Research Agenda for NSF-PATH,”  Journal of Architectural Engineering, 11,1:.1-7.

Scott-Webber, L. and C. T. Koebel, 2001.  "Life-Span Design in the Near Environment," Journal of Housing for the Elderly

Koebel, C. T. 2001.  Book review essay on residential redevelopment.  Journal of Urban Affairs.

Koebel, C. T., 1999.  "Sustaining Sustainability: Innovation in Housing and the Built Environment," Journal of Urban Technology. 6,3, 1999.

Koebel, C. T.,  and P. K. Edwards, 1999.  Guest editors' introduction to Special Issue on Sustaining the Built Environment, Journal of Urban Technology. 6,3.

Koebel, C. T., and M. S. Murray, 1999.  "Extended Families and Their Housing in the US," Housing Studies, 14,2:125-143.

Koebel, C. T., and P. K. Edwards, 1998.  “Housing and Marginalized Populations: Introduction” Habitat International, 23,1:1-3.

Koebel, C. T., 1997.  Book Review Essay, Journal of Urban Affairs, 19,4:497-505.

Koebel, C. T., 1997.  “Housing Conditions of Low-Income Families in the Private, Unassisted Housing Market in the United States,” Housing Studies, 12,2:201-213.

Koebel, C. T., 1996.  “From the Guest Editor: Residential Technology and Public Policy,” The Journal of Urban Technology, 3,3:v-xi.

Koebel, C. T., and K. Zappettini, 1994.  "Housing Tenure and Affordability from 1970-1990: Progress, Stasis, or Retreat?" Housing and Society, 20,3:35-46.

Koebel, C. T., and A. Krishnaswamy, 1993.  "The Impact of Noncash Transfers on Rental Affordability" Journal of Urban Affairs, 15,6:505-514.

Koebel, C. T., and C. Bailey, 1992.  "State Policies and Programs to Preserve Federally Assisted Low-Income Housing," Housing Policy Debate 3,4:995-1016.

Cummings, S., A. Whitt and C. T. Koebel, 1988.  "Public-Private Partnership and Urban Redevelopment:  A Critical Review," Urban ResourcesI, 5,1:35-36,47. 

Koebel, C. T.,  1988.  "Estimating Housing Demand and Supply for Local Areas."  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol.7, No.1:5-14.

Koebel, C. T., and J. Remington, 1988.  "Strike City Revisited."  Urban Resources, Vol.4, No.3:Lo1-Lo5.

Koebel, C. T.,  1986.  "Estimating Substandard Housing for Planning Purposes."  Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol.5,No.3:191-201.

Allen., D. N., C. T. Koebel and R. P. Hudock 1985.  "Assessing the Local Economic Implications of Two Residential Energy Efficiency Standards."  Computer, Environment, and Urban Systems, Vol.10,No.2:89-96.

Koebel, C. T., 1984. "Neighborhood Implications of Changes in Housing Finance." Urban Resources, Vol.1,No.3:60-62.
Koebel, C. T., 1983. "The Problem of Bias in Judicial Evaluation Surveys."  Judicature, Vol.67,No.5: 224-233.

Koebel, C. T., 1983.  "Evaluating the Judges:  An Analysis of Survey Results."  Evaluation Review, Vol.7,No.5: 659-684.

Koebel, C. T., 1981-82.  "The Louisville Economic Inventory:  Shift-Share Analysis."  The Kentucky Journal Economics and Business, Vol.3:28-33.

Rech, C. W. and C. T. Koebel, 1974.  "The Neighborhood Model:  A Structured Urban Decision Process."  Ekistics, Vol.222.

 

Chapters

Koebel, C. T. 1997. “Nonprofit Housing: Theory, Research and Policy in Shelter and Society: Theory, Research and Policy for Nonprofit Housing, C. T. Koebel, editor, SUNY Press.

Koebel, C. T., R. Steinberg and R. Dyck. 1997.“Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing: Definitions and Applications in an International Perspective,” in Shelter and Society: Theory, Research and Policy for Nonprofit Housing, C. T. Koebel, editor, SUNY Press.

Koebel, C. T. 1997.  “The Tortuous Path of Nonprofit Development,” in Shelter and Society: Theory, Research and Policy for Nonprofit Housing, C. T. Koebel, editor, SUNY Press.

Koebel, C. T. 1997. “Responding to the Crisis in Nonprofit Housing,” in Shelter and Society: Theory, Research and Policy for Nonprofit Housing, C. T. Koebel, editor, SUNY Press.

Koebel, C. T. and C. Bailey. 1993. "Putting Targeted Economic Development to Work: The Role of Targeted Marketing in an Economic Development Program" in P. B. Meyer, Comparative Studies in Local Economic Development: Problems in Policy  Implementation, Greenwood Press. 

S. Cummings, A. Whitt and C. T. Koebel. 1989. "Public Investments, Private Profits, and Shared Risks:  Redevelopment in Downtown Louisville," in G. Squires (ed.) Unequal Partners.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers. 

Johnson, K., C. T. Koebel, and M. Price. 1986. "Anchorage Alaska: Toward an Explanation of Migration to Winter Cities," in G. Gappert. The Future of Winter Cities.  Berkeley, CA: Sage Publications.

 

Grants

2008-09 Co-PI: Housing Needs Study of the Northern Neck of Virginia. Sponsor: Northern Neck Housing Committee. Principal Investigators C.T. Koebel and C.J. Dawkins. (Virginia Tech subcontractor to CZB, LLC), $37,165.

2005-08 NSF-PATH grant for Modelling the Diffusion of Innovation in Residential Construction. $300,000. 

2005-08 NSF-PATH grant to study the impact of the Supply Chain on Commercialization and Technology Diffusion. $280,000.  Co-PI with Walid Thabit and Ralph Badinelli.

2005-07 Regulatory Impacts on the Use of Manufactured Housing. USHUD. $300,000. Co-PI with Casey Dawkins.

2005-07 Community Development Work Study Grant, USHUD. $90,000 each plus $26,000 internal funds.

2005-07 Charlottesville, Portsmouth, Northampton Housing Market Projects, ~$60k.

2005 Industry Concentration and Technology Difffusion in Residential Construction. Presentation made as a member of US Delegation to Mexico under the Partnership for Progress.

2004-06 Technology Adoption by Production Builders, HUD OPD&R, $200,000.  National survey of production home builders and analysis of technology adoption decisions.

2004-05 With Ed Hudson. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $200,000.

2004-05 Prince William County, Chesapeake City, Virginia Beach City, Augusta County, and Community Housing Partners, $125,000.

2004-05 With John Randolph. Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, $78,965.

2004-05 With Casey Dawkins. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $300,000.

2004-05 Affordable Housing Studies for Fairfax County (Consolidated Plan), Prince William County, Chesapeake City, Virginia Beach City, and Augusta County. Total project support in excess of $100,000.

2004-05 Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, $20,000.

2004 Evaluation of the National Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity Program. US Department of Housing and Urban Development. With Julia Beamish.

2004 International Review of Residential Building Technology Research Programs. US Department of Housing and Urban Development. With Ron Wakefield.

2003-08 Project Director. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $50,000,000 (4 contracts).

2003-06 REACH (weatherization) program evaluation, Va Dept of Housing and Community Development, $78,965, co-PI

2003 Diffusion of Residential Building Technology.  US Department of  Housing and Urban Development.  With Maria Papadakis, Ed Hudson and Marilyn Cavell.

2003 Prototype Housing Needs Analysis for a Sububan County, $5,000.  Prepared for Chesterfield County, Virginia.

2002-07 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $386,000.

2002-03 Project manager, Building Technology Research and Support, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Indefinite Quantity Contract, over 3 years for up to $50 million, awarded April 2003.

2002-03 Worst Case Housing Needs Report Critique, USHUD, $9,300.  The WCHN, prepared for the US Congress, is HUD’s most widely read and most often cited report.  This commissioned review will provide HUD alternative definitions and calculations of worst case housing needs, as well as recommendations for potential modifications.

2002-03 Affordable Housing Demand Analysis for the Richmond Metropolitan Area, $5,000.  Prepared for a coalition of nonprofit housing organizations in Richmond.

2002-03 ECHO Housing Demonstration Evaluation, USHUD, $79,427.  National evaluation of the ECHO Housing Demonstration Program authorized in the 1990 Housing Act.

2002-03 Diffusion of Residential Building Technologies, USHUD, $99,877.  National survey of technology adoption behaviors among homebuilders.

2002-03 With Elizabeth Gilboy. Housing Policy Development for Greenbrier and Monroe Counties, Southeastern Appalachian Rural Alliance, Inc., $10,469.

2002-03 Development of a Comprehensive Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness in Virginia, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, $7,870.

2002-03 Fair Housing Impediments Study Data Support for Petersburg, Virginia, Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME), $4,464.

2002-03 Consulting Services to Create a Housing Redevelopment Plan for Chesapeake, Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority, $20,582.

2002-03 With Robert Lang. Community Acceptance of Affordable Housing, National Association of Realtors, $24,556.

2002-03 Housing Analysis Training, Federal Research Bank of Richmond, $6,931.

2002-03 Western Greenbrier Co-Production Demonstration Project, Greenbrier Housing Authority, $12,308.

2002-03 Analysis of the Allocation of Housing Assistance – Policy Recommendations HUD Research Cadre Tasks 1 and 2, ICF, Inc, $9,300.

2002-03 Chesterfield Housing Needs Study, Chesterfield County, $7,994.

2002-03 Camp Grove, Danville, Housing Market Study, Community Housing Partners Corporation, $2,000.

2002-03With Beamish, Julia. Echo Housing Demonstration Program, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, $79,427 (previous IQC).

2002-03Community Development Work Study Program, US Department of Housing & Urban Development, $90,000.

2001-02 Internation Survey of Residential Building Technology Research Programs, USHUD, $79,931.

2000-02 Community Development Work Study Grant, USHUD, $90,000 plus $26,000 internal funds (renewed 2002-2004)


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