We collaborated with community development corporations (CDCs) in several
lower-income Massachusetts communities that focused on local housing development,
especially acquisition and redevelopment of foreclosed housing. The
importance of these organizations became increasingly apparent in the wake of
the recent housing crisis in the US, which has led to unprecedented numbers of
foreclosures and had large negative economic and social impacts in many locations.
We are motivated by research questions at two levels. Within the particular
domain of CDCs, decision-making is usually qualitative, although some economic
and financial considerations are quantified. The housing literature lacks structured
definitions of objectives that allow for systematic analysis of trade-offs in decisionmaking.
Therefore, by constructing objectives hierarchies using value modeling
techniques for a set of CDCs, we explore which decision objectives are important
across CDCs, which ones are important to some CDCs, and how does a CDC’s set
of objectives depend on the characteristics of the organization and its situation.
More generally, as CBOR emerges as an area of practice, it is important to
understand how community-based organizations (CBOs), as opposed to other more
heavily studied organizations, respond to OR and to potential problem structuring
methods (PSMs) including VFT. Therefore, in this study, we explore this response
and how it depends on characteristics of the organizations and their situations. Our
modeling efforts are organized within a multi-site, multi-method case study to
generate results for these research questions.
The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In Sect. 2, we review several
relevant literatures relating to the intersection of OR techniques, CDCs and CBOs.
Section 3 presents conceptual frameworks within which we position our research
questions and describe the methods and plan for our study. In Sect. 4, we describe
modeling efforts for three CDCs. These efforts are analyzed in Sect. 5 to address the
research questions. In Sect. 6, we discuss how the results may extrapolate to broader
questions of CBOR.
We collaborated with community development corporations (CDCs) in severallower-income Massachusetts communities that focused on local housing development,especially acquisition and redevelopment of foreclosed housing. Theimportance of these organizations became increasingly apparent in the wake ofthe recent housing crisis in the US, which has led to unprecedented numbers offoreclosures and had large negative economic and social impacts in many locations.We are motivated by research questions at two levels. Within the particulardomain of CDCs, decision-making is usually qualitative, although some economicand financial considerations are quantified. The housing literature lacks structureddefinitions of objectives that allow for systematic analysis of trade-offs in decisionmaking.Therefore, by constructing objectives hierarchies using value modelingtechniques for a set of CDCs, we explore which decision objectives are importantacross CDCs, which ones are important to some CDCs, and how does a CDC’s setof objectives depend on the characteristics of the organization and its situation.More generally, as CBOR emerges as an area of practice, it is important tounderstand how community-based organizations (CBOs), as opposed to other moreheavily studied organizations, respond to OR and to potential problem structuringmethods (PSMs) including VFT. Therefore, in this study, we explore this responseand how it depends on characteristics of the organizations and their situations. Our
modeling efforts are organized within a multi-site, multi-method case study to
generate results for these research questions.
The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In Sect. 2, we review several
relevant literatures relating to the intersection of OR techniques, CDCs and CBOs.
Section 3 presents conceptual frameworks within which we position our research
questions and describe the methods and plan for our study. In Sect. 4, we describe
modeling efforts for three CDCs. These efforts are analyzed in Sect. 5 to address the
research questions. In Sect. 6, we discuss how the results may extrapolate to broader
questions of CBOR.
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We collaborated with community development corporations (CDCs) in several
lower-income Massachusetts communities that focused on local housing development,
especially acquisition and redevelopment of foreclosed housing. The
importance of these organizations became increasingly apparent in the wake of
the recent housing crisis in the US, which has led to unprecedented numbers of
foreclosures and had large negative economic and social impacts in many locations.
We are motivated by research questions at two levels. Within the particular
domain of CDCs, decision-making is usually qualitative, although some economic
and financial considerations are quantified. The housing literature lacks structured
definitions of objectives that allow for systematic analysis of trade-offs in decisionmaking.
Therefore, by constructing objectives hierarchies using value modeling
techniques for a set of CDCs, we explore which decision objectives are important
across CDCs, which ones are important to some CDCs, and how does a CDC’s set
of objectives depend on the characteristics of the organization and its situation.
More generally, as CBOR emerges as an area of practice, it is important to
understand how community-based organizations (CBOs), as opposed to other more
heavily studied organizations, respond to OR and to potential problem structuring
methods (PSMs) including VFT. Therefore, in this study, we explore this response
and how it depends on characteristics of the organizations and their situations. Our
modeling efforts are organized within a multi-site, multi-method case study to
generate results for these research questions.
The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In Sect. 2, we review several
relevant literatures relating to the intersection of OR techniques, CDCs and CBOs.
Section 3 presents conceptual frameworks within which we position our research
questions and describe the methods and plan for our study. In Sect. 4, we describe
modeling efforts for three CDCs. These efforts are analyzed in Sect. 5 to address the
research questions. In Sect. 6, we discuss how the results may extrapolate to broader
questions of CBOR.
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