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Housing and Housing Finance

Kicked out: America’s housing affordability crisis and evictions

Thousands of families across the United States face evictions, but their prevalence is an outgrowth of larger challenges around housing affordability.

Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

From HOPE VI to Choice Neighborhoods: Let’s protect people’s health during housing redevelopment

Public and assisted housing residents tend to have poor health. Residents in Choice Neighborhoods didn't fare any better than they did in the program’s predecessor, HOPE VI.

Adolescents and Youth

What happens when communities develop their own programs and policies?

Because the community was invested in the research, we received better data. Because we had better data, we co-designed a better program.

Housing and Housing Finance

How to keep affordable housing in high-opportunity neighborhoods

Affordable housing is one of a range of housing policies and programs that have the potential to promote economic mobility.

Education and Training

High-poverty schools undermine education for children of color

Why desegregating public schools could bring so much benefit to children of color

Education and Training

Understanding race and income concentration in public schools is a local (and important) story

Feature: A clearer look at race and income concentration in public schools

Education and Training

Millions of black students attend public schools that are highly segregated by race and by income

Adolescents and Youth

Segregated neighborhoods mean segregated schools

America's public schools remain highly segregated

Adolescents and Youth

When neighbors are no longer classmates, what happens to the community?

Behind the Numbers at the Urban Institute

DATA@URBAN

Behind the Numbers at the Urban Institute

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Steven Brown

Steven Brown

Senior Research Associate
Brady Meixell

Brady Meixell

Research Analyst
Diana Elliott

Diana Elliott

Principal Research Associate
Laurie Goodman

Laurie Goodman

Vice President, Housing Finance Policy

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