Journal profile · Multiple
Housing Policy Debate
ISSN 1051-1482 · eISSN 2152-050X · Taylor & Francis
Housing Policy Debate: CAS Zone 3 · Economics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.21; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 230 days to acceptance (66 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 12% (journal website); 36 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Housing Policy Debate is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Housing Market and Economics, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, together about 62.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Urban Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Housing Policy Debate has since 1990 published cutting edge, original research that evaluates and informs housing and community development policy. Subjects include (but are not limited to) affordable housing, housing instability and homelessness, housing finance, housing for renter or owner-occupancy, neighborhood revitalization, housing-related poverty alleviation and integration strategies, metropolitan residential development trends, land use policy, segregation, and inequalities in access to housing by ethnic/racial, household/family, Indigeneity, transnational immigration, gender/sexuality, and other dimensions of societal diversity. The Journal also aims to explore linkages between housing policy and health, finance, energy, environmental, and transportation policies through interdisciplinary approaches. The Journal welcomes manuscripts examining these topics in any national context, so long as they have wide applicability. The Journal seeks to highlight current debate on these topics through Forum sections that feature a central article with responding comments that represent a range of perspectives. Housing Policy Debate also features an occasional Outlook section, where the editors and advisory board members comment on emerging areas of housing and community development research or current events. Our objective is to disseminate widely the best current thinking on housing and housing-related policy. Peer Review Statement All submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process, based on initial editor screening and double-anonymized review by at least two reviewers. Housing Policy Debate applies the following criteria during the review process: Manuscripts should be theoretically and empirically informed investigations that engage questions relevant to housing markets and policies, conduct rigorous evaluations of housing and neighborhood development programs, and/or develop innovative theories or concepts related to housing and neighborhoods. They must clearly identify gaps in the scholarly literature their research helps close and make clear their contributions to theoretical or empirical issues related to housing policy. Applicability of findings to formulating specific policies and programs having general interest must be explicit. Scholars with an excellent record as peer reviewer for HPD may be invited to join our Editorial Board. Scholars who wish to serve as peer reviewers for HPD should email the editorial office (hpd.eic@gmail.com), listin
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Vincent ReinaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 32, Canada 2, Singapore 1 (35 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Housing Market and EconomicsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance21.3%
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation StudiesSocial Sciences21.3%
- Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismEconomics, Econometrics and Finance19.5%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions8.5%
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement AnalysisBusiness, Management and Accounting3.5%
- Urbanization and City PlanningSocial Sciences2.7%
- Urban and Rural Development ChallengesSocial Sciences2.5%
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Development Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Economics Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Development Studies | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Economics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Economics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Development Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Urban Studies | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Current ContentsPublisher website
Other: OCLC, AgeLine, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Current Abstracts (Jan.2003-), Family Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Social Work Abstracts and Urban Studies Abstracts (1998-)
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.21LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.01LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1.01Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.61LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.61Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 100OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 809OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.79OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 27.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 6.73%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 31LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 216,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,522 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37 | 20 | 21 |
| 2025 | 36 | 19 | 82 |
| 2024 | 50 | 26 | 240 |
| 2023 | 52 | 20 | 247 |
| 2022 | 71 | 28 | 1,159 |
| 2021 | 80 | 24 | 1,171 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
230 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 170 days – 294 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 46 days (66 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 281 days
- Sample
- 66 articles with submission and acceptance dates (82 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 12%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 68 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 72 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 51 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Housing Policy Debate is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and r…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process, based on initial editor screening and double-anonymized review by at least two reviewers. Model summary
All submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process, based on initial editor screening and double-anonymized review by at least two reviewers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1051-1482
- Electronic ISSN
- 2152-050X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 36, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Housing Policy Debate
What CAS zone is Housing Policy Debate in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Housing Policy Debate is in Zone 3 of Economics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Development Studies / Urban Studies. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Economics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Housing Policy Debate?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.21; CiteScore 7.3, h-index 100.
How long does peer review take at Housing Policy Debate?
Based on the dates recorded on 66 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 230 days (interquartile range 170–294 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 12%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is Housing Policy Debate in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Economics.
Where are the editorial board members of Housing Policy Debate based?
Of the 35 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (32), Canada (2) and Singapore (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Housing Policy Debate?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Housing Policy Debate is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Housing Policy Debate open access, and what is the APC?
Housing Policy Debate is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .