Elizabeth Korver-Glenn will discuss her book, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America."
Planner, architect and community advocate Antoine Bryant will discuss his work on affordable housing, equitable development and community-led design.
What are the biggest problems facing Houston? What tools do we have to solve them? Rice University and the City of Houston have joined forces to create Houston Solutions Lab, building on other recent efforts to bring together research and policy to help answer those questions.
In 2020, the City of Houston and regional stakeholders cemented a resilience strategy and a climate action plan and adapted these initiatives to account for COVID-19’s impact on urban life. Learn more about the progress made in the first year of these two transformative efforts to both mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change and other physical, social, and economic urban adversities and challenges.
Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor.
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research's experts are available for speaking engagements. Expertise includes urban planning, transportation, development, local demographics, education and post-Harvey recovery.
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The Kinder Institute is in mourning this week over the sudden passing of Andy Olin, a former senior editor and writer whose name you no doubt came to know atop some of the Urban Edge blog’s most insightful posts.
Food insecurity has been an increasingly urgent challenge that has afflicted the Houston region, especially during recent crises like Hurricane Harvey, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Winter Storm Uri.
