This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

Housing Policy Debate welcomes submissions which inform the US housing policy debate.

Please submit:

• A PDF file from an unblinded version of the original manuscript with all tables and figures included. Include in this file a title page with the title of the manuscript, name, title, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address of each author, a delivery address for the corresponding author (must be a street address), and date of the manuscript   
• A Word document from a blinded version of the original manuscript.
  The purpose of a blinded version of the manuscript is to ensure to every extent possible that nothing in the paper allows the reviewers to identify the author(s). If you have any questions regarding the procedure of properly blinding an article, please notify the managing editor.
• Letter of Changes (only necessary if the manuscript is a revision of an earlier submission that received a Reject but Encourage Revision)This blinded letter should outline how you addressed the points raised in the Editor's Decision Letter and the reviewers' comments.

1. Text—Submit text in MS Word. Indicate in the main text file where tables or figures should be inserted (for example, [Insert table 1 about here]).

2. Tables—Submit tables in MS Word or Excel.

3. Graphs and charts—Submit in MS Excel. Data should be pre-generated and saved under a separate worksheet tab in the same file. For figures plotted to data points, include electronic copies of the data points so the figure can be accurately generated.

4. Maps and line art images—Submit as Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files.

5. Photographs—Submit as EPS, TIFF, or original JPEG files. (Original JPEGs are necessary for high quality printing. If in doubt, please send what you have. We will contact you if there is a problem.) Please do not submit tables, graphs, charts, or maps in TIFF or JPEG format.

Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the editors. Copyright permission letter template

Biography   
The unblinded manuscript should include a listing of each author's name, title, and affiliation on the title page. If an author's affiliation changes after the paper is submitted and before it is published, the new affiliation can be added (showing the old one as well if it is important) or substituted when the author reviews the edited copy or the page proofs.     

Acknowledgments    
Acknowledgments to individual staff members are acceptable. Place any acknowledgments in a separate paragraph following the biographical information. Any disclaimers should also be in this paragraph, following the acknowledgments.     

Text headings   
Headings are not numbered and are placed flush left. The first word of the heading is capitalized, but all other words (except for proper nouns) are lower case. First-level headings are bold; second-level headings are italic; and third-level headings are italic with a period that leads directly into text.    

Examples:   

First-level heading   

Second-level heading   

            Third-level heading. The text continues....     

Tables and figures   
Use Arabic numerals to number tables and figures consecutively in separate series in order of appearance. Include a brief descriptive title at the top of each table or figure. Do not include tables or figures in the main text file. Instead, submit them separately and indicate in the main text file approximately where to insert them (for example, [Insert table 1 about here]). The text must contain a reference to and an explanation of each table or figure.    

Any abbreviations in the tables and figures must be defined. (See also Abbreviations section above.)   

If you draw tabular or other material from other sources, be sure to include these sources in the references and obtain copyright permission if necessary.   

Source notes. If you draw tabular or other material from other sources, use a short form of the reference in the table source note (name of the author or agency and date). Such information should be given after the word Source followed by a colon as in the example above. When there are two works by the same author or agency in the same year in the references, they will be differentiated by a lowercase letter after the date (for example, 1991a, 1991b) and should be correspondingly indicated in a table source note. Where tabular and other material is based on your original work, so indicate in the text or in a note to the editor. Such material does not need a source note.

Notes. These are general notes that apply to the whole table or figure (as opposed to footnotes which apply to a specific portion of a table or figure, such as a row or column). Such information should be given after the word Note followed by a colon as in the example above.

Footnotes. Unlike a general note, a footnote applies to a specific section of a table (for example, a row or column) and, in rare cases, to a section of a figure. Such information should be given using superscript lowercase roman letters as in the examples above. If there is only one footnote, an asterisk is used (unless the asterisk has been reserved to indicate significance in this table, in which case a superscript a should be used).

Significance notes. In tables reporting statistical results, levels of probability are indicated by asterisks—one asterisk for the highest probability (lowest significance), two for the next highest, and so on. If multiple tables have significance notes, a particular number of asterisks should correspond to the same probability level throughout the article, and the significance notes should be consistent across tables.

Footnotes
Footnotes are numbered consecutively within each article, using superscript Arabic numerals. Footnotes may be used for explanatory information but not strictly for references. We do not use endnotes.     

References   
The manuscript must include complete and accurate references of all materials cited in the manuscript that are not of your original authorship. Please double-check your references to ensure that names and dates are accurate, that Web pages are still active, and that there are no discrepancies between the text and the reference list. Please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for approved citation styles.

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