John Park

John Park is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate Development at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on housing policies and programs, real estate economics and development, built environments, community resilience, and social equity. In the Real Estate Development program, he teaches Tax and Accounting for Real Estate Development, Foundations of Real Estate Finance and Investment, and Real Estate Development Case Studies.

John’s research has been published in journals, including the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Cities, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal of Transport and Land Use, and the Journal of the Korea Real Estate Analyst Association, among others. He has extensive experience with statistical and spatial methodologies and applies tools such as Stata and ArcGIS to study a wide range of housing and land-related challenges.

John was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Real Estate at Tulane University (2022-2023), where he taught Introduction to Real Estate and Real Estate Market Analysis & Finance. From 2017 to 2022, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. His work at the Kinder Institute explored community development, housing affordability, land value, urban resiliency, and the built environment. Representative projects include the state of housing in the Houston area (2019-2022), studies on gentrification and changes in housing stock (2018-2021), affordable housing and transit quality (2019-2020), mobility of housing choice voucher recipients (2018-2019), multifamily housing risks and opportunity related to flooding (2018-2019), and a Hurricane Harvey relief fund needs assessment (2017-2018).

Research interests:

• Housing policies and programs
• Real estate economics and development
• Built environments
• Community resilience
• Social equity