{"id":5324,"date":"2026-05-13T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=5324"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:45:30","slug":"nataliia-novoseltseva","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/nataliia-novoseltseva\/","title":{"rendered":"Nataliia Novoseltseva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Novoseltseva-Natalie.jpg\" alt=\"by Corban Swain\" class=\"wp-image-5619\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Novoseltseva-Natalie.jpg 400w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Novoseltseva-Natalie-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bard College<\/strong><br>Faculty Advisor: Prof. Daniel Hidalgo<br>Department: Political Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nataliia Novoseltseva is a senior at Bard College, majoring in Sociology and Economics<br>with a minor in Data Analytics. Nataliia has long been drawn to questions of trust, authority,<br>and control: why people comply, and who bears the cost of broken trust. This shaped her focus<br>on social control and inequality, studied through quantitative methodology. This summer,<br>Nataliia worked as a Research Assistant with Dr. Daniel Hidalgo on a project examining<br>paper compliance in housing policy, specifically, land-zoning practices for multifamily<br>housing development in Massachusetts, by modeling parcel-level financial feasibility to assess<br>development outcomes. After graduation, Nataliia plans to pursue a PhD in Sociology. There,<br>she hopes to enrich theoretical understanding of how institutions of control shape inequality<br>in everyday life and produce research that speaks to policy on housing, labor, and criminal<br>justice. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking, going to the gym, and pottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>What Paper Compliance Looks Like: Evidence from MBTA Communities Zoning<br>Nataliia Novoseltseva1 and F. Daniel Hidalgo2<\/strong><br>1Department of Social Sciences, Bard College<br>2Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In 2021, Massachusetts ordered 177 municipalities to zone for more housing near transit.<br>Nearly all of them complied, but adoption alone does not guarantee construction. The state&#8217;s<br>MBTA Communities Act sets municipality-specific housing capacity targets but leaves local<br>officials discretion over which parcels to include in new zoning districts. This discretion<br>creates room for &#8220;paper compliance&#8221;: zoning that satisfies the state&#8217;s numeric housing targets<br>while steering development toward sites unlikely to ever be built on. Existing compliance<br>checks can confirm whether a town meets its target, but cannot tell whether that target was met<br>in good faith or through strategic parcel selection: a gap in current housing policy research.<br>This project builds an empirical method for detecting paper compliance. Based on a review<br>of planning board minutes across several municipalities, we identified site-level conditions<br>associated with paper compliance and the main strategies municipalities use to satisfy the<br>law without enabling development. These indicators will inform a parcel-level feasibility<br>model estimating realistic development potential. These findings will provide a framework<br>for evaluating whether zoning reform produces genuine housing, with direct relevance for<br>researchers and policymakers overseeing state housing mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5619,"template":"","profile_category":[25],"class_list":["post-5324","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-2026-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5324\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}