Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the effects of social media use on the resilience of organizations involved in emergency response. While social media has been utilized as a critical tool in the field of emergency management, few researchers have systemically examined its effect on organizations’ capacity to bounce back from catastrophic events. From the dimensional approach to social media use, this research focuses on the following three functions: providing information to local communities, transmitting information to local communities, and responding to the emotions of local communities.Design/methodology/approach: The authors used survey data gleaned from 79 key organizations involved in emergency management to investigate the impact of social media use on resilience after a tragic flood in Seoul, South Korea in 2013. The authors also conducted interviews with ten emergency management officials to understand what administrative challenges they confront in using social media for their tasks.Findings: The authors found that the provision of disaster information on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube has a positive effect on the perceived level of organizational resilience. In addition, social media use correlates positively with community emotional responses.Research limitations/implications: Given the focus on the emergency response to a natural disaster in urban areas, the results might not be generalizable to smaller cities or rural areas. The survey items that measure the perceptions of emergency managers may not represent the physical aspects of disaster recovery, such as the restoration of housing stock.Practical implications: The findings suggest that public and nonprofit organizations can use social media to communicate with other organizations and the public in ways that demonstrate resilience. Emergency managers should address administrative challenges, such as trustworthiness of information delivered via social media and lack of personnel.Originality/value: This paper provides systematic understandings of the effects of social media use on the resilience of the organizations that respond to a disaster.

The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in 1960 so companies could develop publically traded real estate investment portfolios. REITs focus on commercial property, retail property, and rental property. During the last decade, REITs became more active in regional housing markets across the U.S. Single-family rental (SFR) REITs have grown tremendously, buying up residential properties across the country. In some regional housing markets, SFR REITs own noticeable shares of single-family homes. In those settings, SFR REITs take large numbers of housing units off of real estate markets where homeownership transactions occur and manage these properties as part of commercial rental inventories. This has resulted in a new category of multiple property owners, composed of institutional investors as opposed to individual investors, which further exacerbates property wealth concentration and polarization. This study examines the socio–spatial distribution of properties in SFR REIT portfolios to determine if SFR REIT properties tend to cluster in distinct areas. This study will focus on the regional housing market in Nashville, TN. Nashville has one of the most active SFR REIT sectors in the country. County tax assessor records were used to identify SFR REIT properties. These data were joined with U.S. Census data to create a profile of communities. The data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software and GIS software. Our analysis suggests that neighborhoods with clusters of SFR REITs fit the SFR REIT business model. Clusters occur in communities with newer homes, residents with higher levels of educational attainment, and middle to upper-middle incomes. The paper concludes with several recommendations for future research on SFR REITs.

Since the 2008 housing crisis, institutional investors have increasingly acquired single-family homes across U.S. metropolitan regions, converting them into rental properties. This rise of In-stitutional Single-Family Rentals (ISFRs) has reshaped suburban housing markets, particularly in areas undergoing demographic change. Focusing on the greater Nashville region—where insti-tutional landlords have acquired over 13,000 homes since 2010—this study investigates the spatial distribution of ISFRs and their associations with African American population shifts. Using American Community Survey data, county property records, and transaction data from major ISFR operators, we apply spatial analysis and multivariate regression modeling to assess neigh-borhood-level dynamics. Results indicate that ISFR clusters are concentrated in areas with sig-nificant African American population growth. Regression analyses show a positive association between ISFR density and African American population increase, along with correlations to lower household income and larger household size. African American renters are disproportionately concentrated in ISFR-heavy neighborhoods, pointing to constrained homeownership opportuni-ties. By framing these patterns within urban sustainability’s social equity dimension, this research highlights how ISFR proliferation, as a form of housing financialization, challenges equitable homeownership and community stability. These findings call for policies fostering socially sus-tainable housing systems to support economic viability, social justice, and community resilience in urban regions.

Place defines the linkages between space and representation. Several theoretical concepts attempt to examine how people perceive a place and even their purpose as a part of it, including it being as a prescribed way of life, a public ideology to ascribe to, and as a set geographical residence. More often than not, this “sense” is simply categorized by a rural-urban continuum dictated by health and wealth. New Urbanism communities is an urban design movement that promotes a sense of community by designing walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods that are environmentally friendly and provide a wide range of housing and job types. In his book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida (2002) provided detailed examples of how cities ranging from New York City to Newark and Oakland have experienced dramatic turnarounds because of demographic shifts. While this trend is well documented within urban areas, few, if any, studies have been published that examine this phenomenon within New Urbanism communities. Most studies emphasize the residential aspects over commercial development. This longitudinal case study provides an in-depth analysis of businesses' faring in five distinct suburban and urban localities in Florida, Indiana, and Kentucky that were first studied by Besel and Nur (2013). Comparisons based on the neighborhoods’ different socio-economic characteristics were also examined with community stakeholders in 2021 through 2022. This paper integrates the two studies, concluding with the entrepreneurial progress the communities have made. Results indicate that an essential component of any neo-traditional community requires a thriving commercial and nonprofit sectors. In addition to being able to cultivate and sustain businesses, these communities continue to attract an array of residents, positioning appeal to a wide generational range and diverse population.