Brandon Frye

Hometown: Parma, Ohio

Research Interests: My research agenda primarily focuses on the urban policy space, primarily questions related to housing or community resource building. My dissertation focuses on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, but I also conduct research on eviction prevention and homeownership assistance programs. I seek to apply a more “person-centric” perspective to public policy and management questions by drawing on interdisciplinary concepts. I’m interested in understanding how to better shape policies surrounding affordable housing by exploring how implementation dynamics lead to downstream policy outcomes. I also am concerned with the role that nonprofit organizations play in shaping affordable housing policy. I identify more within the pragmatist research philosophy, placing the nature of the problem/question above pre-conceived notions of epistemology or ontology when informing the best research method. I have diversified my methodological toolkit through engaging with advanced post-positivist econometric methods and interpretivist methods of qualitative inquiry, with plans of a mixed-methods dissertation.

Undergraduate Institution and Major:
B.S, Public Policy Analysis & Economics (Minor: Mathematics), The Ohio State University, 2022

Honors and Awards:
Graduate Student Research Workshop Dissertation Award, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 2026
Inclusive Excellence Fellowship, 2023
University Fellowship, 2022