About HOUSED Lab
We are committed to high-quality research
At HOUSED Lab, we believe in the power of research to promote social well-being and mutual understanding. We believe housing justice and economic-development goals are complementary rather than opposing. We strive to provide high-quality, transparent, and reproducible research outcomes in every project.
Our lab is small and young, but it is grounded in integrity and state-of-the-art methods that provide solid evidence for reconciling housing justice and economic-development goals. Since 2021, HOUSED Lab has been based at the University of Texas at San Antonio within the School of Architecture and Planning and the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design.
Meet the Team
Esteban López Ochoa, Ph.D.
HOUSED Lab Director · Associate Professor · Urban and Regional Planning Program Lead · SPUR Center Associate Director
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Haoming Qin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Yuan Ping
Ph.D. student · Civil Engineering · Dissertation chair
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Xavier Perez
Ph.D. student · Civil Engineering · Dissertation chair
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Nang (Hannah) Thitsar
M.S. student · Urban and Regional Planning · Advisor
Collaborating Faculty
Housing and economic-development research is multidisciplinary by nature. HOUSED Lab collaborates with a wide range of UTSA faculty members to bring the best research to fruition.
Alumni
Students from UTSA’s Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning and Ph.D. programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Demography have worked at HOUSED Lab. We are proud to see them take on new professional and academic adventures.
- Salomon Mendoza — MSURP advisee, 2023–2025, Short-range Planner at AAMPO
- Zack Magallanez — MSURP advisee, 2024–2025, Planner at the City of San Antonio.
- Anne Bransford — EMME Project GRA, 2024–2025, Planner at City of Boerne
- Skylar Joiner — MSURP advisee, 2024–2025
- Allison Pineda — MSURP 2024 - Planner I at VIA
- Afia Farhana — MSURP 2024
- Ashley Leal — City of San Antonio · MSURP 2023
- Luis Escalante — Able City · MSURP 2023
Recent Doctoral Collaborators and Committees
- Sarah Serpas — Demography
- Christina Muñoz-Quintanilla — Demography
Current Sponsors and Contributors
