John Park is an assistant professor of real estate development at the University of Maryland (UMD). John’s research interests include housing policies and programs, real estate economics, real estate development, built environments, community resilience, and social equity. John teaches in the Real Estate Development program, including the following courses: Tax and Accounting for Real Estate Development; Foundations of Real Estate Finance and Investment; Real Estate Development Case Studies.
John’s work has been published in journals, such as 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, including the use of Stata and ArcGIS to research a variety of housing and land-related challenges.
Prior to joining the UMD community, he taught Introduction to Real Estate and Real Estate Market Analysis & Finance at Tulane University (2022-2023) and conducted research in the areas of community development, housing programs, housing affordability, land value, urban resiliency, and built environments at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research (2017-2022). Some of the representative research projects in which he was actively involved were the state of housing in the Houston area (2019-2022), gentrification and its relationship to housing stock and demographic change (2018-2021), affordable housing and transit quality (2019-2020), housing choice voucher recipients’ mobility (2018-2019), multifamily housing risks and opportunity in relation to flood risks (2018-2019), and Hurricane Harvey relief fund needs assessment (2017-2018).
John has worked at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC), the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), and the Urban and Real Estate Economics Lab. He is a certified planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA), the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), and the American Planning Association (APA).