Professor Price’s research overlaps his professional
practice and public service interests, and is concerned primarily
with housing for low-income households. As domestic housing policy
at the federal level has changed, local governments are
increasingly challenged to find new ways of responding to this
challenge. Accordingly, Professor Price’s work spans
investigation into site intensification schemes, creative financing
mechanisms and approaches, and policy issues related to housing
affordability. For over a decade, he has served as the urban
planning member of the inter-disciplinary team assembled by US EPA
Region II to address redevelopment of urban brownfields in
communities throughout New York, New Jersey, and parts of the
Caribbean.
Over the course of his three-and-a-half-decade career at UB,
Professor Price has served on numerous public boards: 16 years'
service on the City of Buffalo’s Arts Commission; the
citizens' review panel for the design of the Buffalo-Niagara
International Airport; Artpark; the Advisory Council to Buffalo
Housing Court; and the board of directors of numerous neighborhood
housing corporations. In more recent years this service has
included Downtown Neighborhood Development, Inc., Buffalo’s
lead agency for housing initiatives in the central business
district; and service as consultant to the Bethel Community
Development Corporation, a not-for-profit agency sponsored by the
oldest African-American religious congregation in the city. Bethel
CDC is in the process now of implementing the neighborhood renewal
plan developed in prior years with Professor Price’s
guidance. Price is currently involved in work to establish a Black
Heritage Cultural District on the city’s east side. This
includes the February 2010 approval of an historic housing project
by the New York Preservation League on that organization’s
state-wide “Seven to Save” list.
