Rate My Professor Jane Rongerude

Rongerude's current work investigates housing instability through the lens of residential rental property owners' (RRPOs) decisions affecting rental housing outcomes, including owner characteristics, portfolios, and responses to disasters and market shocks. Key projects include the NSF-funded initiative 'Keeping Shelters in Place: Understanding the Relationship between Residential Landlord Decision-Making and Post-Disaster Housing Security' (grant #2139816), which analyzes data from nine U.S. cities to inform disaster preparedness. She also contributes to inclusive planning efforts, such as strengthening stormwater infrastructure in marginalized communities via social justice indicators and enhancing climate justice through community engagement. Rongerude received the Iowa State University College of Design Faculty/Staff Research Award and was elected president of Inclusion, the LGBTQIA+ interest group of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), with a two-year term. She serves as ACSP Vice President/President-Elect (2025-2027). Notable publications include 'Rental Registries and the Business of Providing a Home' (Journal of the American Planning Association, 2025), 'Providing Rental Housing: A Systematic Literature Review of Residential Rental Property Owner Decision Making' (Journal of Planning Literature, 2024), 'Barriers to Postdisaster Housing Reconstruction: Issues of Place and Power Mismatch' (Natural Hazards Review, 2023), and 'Best Practices for Online Team-Based Learning: Strengthening Teams through Formative Peer Evaluation' (2021). Her scholarship advances equitable planning practices and teaching innovations, including bias mitigation in peer evaluations.