Daniel
O'Brien
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative
Expertise
Daniel O’Brien in the Press
With Wu’s slated victory, all eyes are on the city council’s at-large race. Will voters show up to the polls?
Dan O’Brien, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, said the preliminary results could bode well for Santana.
Map: Wu won all but a handful of Boston precincts in Tuesday’s prelim. See where.
South Boston and Dorchester “were the areas that, if Josh Kraft was going to have any pathway to victory, he absolutely had to win those,” said Dan O’Brien, director of the Boston Area Research Initiative and professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University.
Boston.com
When can you say you’re ‘from Boston’?
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”.
Busing doesn’t improve academic outcomes for Boston students of color, study finds
Daniel O’Brien, a Northeastern University professor who has analyzed the effects of the current assignment system, called the research paper’s findings striking.
Business Insider
How a partnership between the city of Boston and local universities is working to help policymakers better serve residents
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 […]
Business Insider
An increase in Airbnb rentals is linked to more crime in some Boston neighborhoods, a new study finds
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.
Boston Herald
Study from Northeastern links violent crime surges in Boston neighborhoods to Airbnb vacation rentals
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 […]
Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as long-term residents are pushed out, says US study
“It’s not the number of Airbnb tourists who stay in a neighborhood that causes an increase in criminal activities,” said Professor Babak Heydari from Northeastern University.
Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?
Researchers from Northeastern University reviewed data in Boston from 2011 to 2018, a period of both sustained growth in Airbnb listings and growing concerns about crime. They found that certain violent crimes—fights, robberies, reports of someone wielding a knife—tended to increase in a neighborhood a year or more after the number of Airbnbs increased—a sign, […]
WCVB TV
COVID-19 pandemic worsens housing disparities in Boston
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.
