Daniel O’Brien

Dan O’Brien, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, agrees. He sees the city as “three Bostons” coexisting side by side”.

City-university partnerships are critical to digital transformation, as city agencies are consumed by “the daily grind of running a city,” O’Brien, who’s also an associate professor of public policy and urban affairs, criminology, and criminal justice at Northeastern University said. “Universities bring skills and extra capacity to the table to design research studies, execute research […]

An uptick in crime in certain Boston neighborhoods appears to be linked to the introduction of Airbnb rentals, according to a study out of Northeastern University.

The peer-reviewed study looked at Airbnb housing data in Boston from 2011 to 2018, data from Northeastern, and 911 dispatches from that same time period. Northeastern professors examined violent and nonviolent crime reports, and found that violent crime tended to rise about a year or two after an increase in Airbnbs. The housing data used in the […]

Northeastern professor Dan O’Brien points out many of these larger landlords have not signed onto the state’s Eviction Diversion Pledge which says they’ll abide by the CDC moratorium and work with residents to create payment plans.