Assistant or Associate Research Professor, Franklin L. ...

DU is the oldest independent university in the Rocky Mountain region and is classified as an R1 Doctoral/Research University. U.S. News and Times Higher Education have consistently ranked DU among the nation's top 100 universities, while Princeton Review named DU as the university most loved by its students.The Daniels College of Business is one of the largest colleges within the University, offering a variety of majors and minors, including nine bachelor's degrees, four MBA degree programs, seven specialized master's programs and an Executive PhD program. Daniels was founded in 1908-the eighth-oldest collegiate business program in the United States. It has held AACSB accreditation since 1923. U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, Forbes, and Poets & Quants routinely recognize Daniels programs as among the best in the country. We transform lives, organizations, and communities through educational experiences, outreach, and knowledge creation.The City of Denver is home to more than 40,000 businesses and is a fertile environment for entrepreneurs and startups. It has abundant sunshine, one of the country's largest city park systems, an impressive craft beer scene, and ample access to outdoor activities. All of it is easily accessible from the DU campus. With over 300 days of sunshine a year, the nation's largest city park system, and a thriving business community, a Pew Research Study lists Denver as the #1 city in which people want to live.Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction ManagementThe Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management is founded on the full life cycle of the built environment. Students are prepared to fill an increasingly important role as an integrated project leader and acquire a cohesive understanding of the built environment in addition to the specific educational discipline of their choice. The foundation of the Burns School is the integration of academic and scholarly real estate and construction management knowledge with issues of real-world application. The Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management offers a Master of Science in Real Estate and the Built Environment (REBE) and an undergraduate major in Real Estate and Construction Management in the Colleges Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program, as well as minors with concentrations in Real Estate Finance and Investments, Real Estate Development and Construction Management. The Burns School offers rigorous academic instruction, enjoys strong industry support, and has eight full-time faculty members. The Burns School is recognized as an innovative leader in Real Estate and Construction Management. In the context of housing access and affordability, the School is working across the University of Denver to identify ambitious, yet pragmatic solutions to today's most pressing housing challenges, supported by rigorous, action-oriented research.Position SummaryThe Housing Economist will be housed within the Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management, but will be working in partnership with other institutions and other units of the University of Denver, including the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the Sturm College of Law, the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy, and the Graduation School of Social Work, to support the launch and growth of a new Housing Research Center and to advance an interdisciplinary research agenda designed to address barriers to housing access.The Housing Economist to be hired as a Research Faculty (non-tenure track) and will lead and publish research focused on housing and housing policy. The research will include topics related to expanding the supply and affordability of housing through land use and zoning policies, innovative financing tools, and other policy interventions. The Housing Economist will collaborate closely with leaders and scholars from other units on campus, as well as research rs from other institutions, to identify new research opportunities, develop research design and conceptual frameworks for understanding the links between policies and housing supply, and produce evidence-driven research that can help to inform housing policy debates in Colorado and at the federal level. The Housing Economist will also be responsible for working closely with researchers from Terner Labs to develop and manage Housing Policy Simulators for Colorado and to use resulting models to conduct policy-relevant research and analyze the application of research to policy outcomes. The Housing Economist will be expected to represent DU at various forums, conferences, symposiums and events to present and share the research and white papers produced. Working under the supervision of the Director of the Burns School and in partnership with the RMLUI, a Law and Policy Research Fellow (

Created: 2025-12-03