Opportunities

The BUILD Research Network offers researchers and students a range of opportunities to engage with housing, transportation, and energy infrastructure and land-use policy.

BUILD Research Network Mentor Program: Call for Mentors and Mentees


The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), as part of the Better Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Land-Use Decisions (BUILD) Research Network program, seeks tenured faculty in housing, energy, infrastructure and land-use to serve as mentors, as well as PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and pre-tenure faculty would benefit from mentorship.

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BUILD Research Network Call for Papers: What New Infrastructure is Most Valuable and How Do We Build It?


The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), as part of the Better Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Land-Use Decisions (BUILD) Research Network program, seeks papers that address the question of which additional infrastructure investments would be the most valuable and what are the major obstacles to those investments.

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BUILD Research Network First Annual Research-to-Policy Convening


The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), as part of the Better Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Land-Use Decisions (BUILD) Research Network program, seeks papers centered on practical solutions to high infrastructure costs, particularly in the areas of housing, energy, and transportation. Papers should be focused on findings with policy insights or interested in policy guidance for subsequent research.

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Funded by Arnold Ventures

Arnold Ventures Housing Data & Technology Innovation Challenge

The Housing Data and Technology Innovation Challenge is a fully remote, national challenge to build transparent, replicable, and explainable tools that help decision-makers understand how state-level pro-housing policy reforms are likely to affect housing supply.

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Bloomberg Harvard Visiting Scholars Program


The Bloomberg Harvard Visiting Scholars Program supports rigorous, policy-relevant research on urban problem-solving and city leadership. The program selects a cohort of researchers whose work has the potential to make meaningful contributions both to scholarship and to real-world challenges.

Projects should make a significant contribution to advancing the study of urban problem-solving and city leadership, with a focus on driving performance, leading innovation, and delivering results for residents.

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Request for Papers: Arnold Ventures Evidence & Evaluation


The Arnold Ventures’ Evidence and Evaluation team is currently accepting applications across multiple policy areas through the Strengthening Evidence and Building Evidence RFPs. The Strengthening Evidence RFP supports randomized controlled trials across most domestic social policy areas; the Building Evidence RFP supports quasi-experimental studies that estimate the real-world effects of existing policies. Both aim to strengthen causal evidence in social policy by identifying the most effective strategies to improve outcomes at scale. 

The Building Evidence RFP invites proposals across several priority areas, including infrastructure, to expand what’s known about building infrastructure faster, better, and at lower cost across housing, transportation, and energy.

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Request for Information: Renaissance Philanthropy


Renaissance Philanthropy’s Housing Abundance Philanthropy Fund is currently leveraging scoping funding from founding supporters. They seek to provide grants to early-stage solutions with the goal of supporting early-stage scaling efforts that address pain points and friction across the housing production value chain. The fund welcomes submissions from any sector.

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