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The 2021 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston

The 2021 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report uses a range of indicators to track the challenges, opportunities and trends in the region’s housing system.
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Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2021 Results

For the past four decades, Rice University’s Kinder Houston Area Survey (KHAS) has been tracking the changing attitudes and beliefs of Harris County residents. The 2021 survey summarizes the most consequential changes and their implications for public policy initiatives going forward. It also explores in what specific ways and to what measurable extent have residents been personally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic shutdown and growing awareness of systemic racism.
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COVID-19 and Cities, Demographics, Economic Development, Education, Governance, Health, Housing, Hurricane Harvey, Immigration, Placemaking, Transportation
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Resilience and Climate Progress in Houston

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.

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Urban Reads: Leslie Kern

Leslie Kern will discuss "Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World."

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The Kinder Institute is now accepting applications for its Rice Kinder Scholars program. Applications are due July 15.

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As affordability wanes, Houston and Harris County renters face crowding, cost burdens

The Kinder Institute’s second annual “State of Housing” report comes as Houston—and much of the country—remains in the midst of a residential real estate bonanza. A yearlong buying spree, fueled by a combination of factors, is driving the country to historically low inventory levels and propelling prices ever higher. 
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Demographics, Housing, Urban Disparity
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Black neighborhoods have led the Houston area’s surge in start-ups during the pandemic

Economists studying the dramatic growth of new business activity found that the proportion of Black residents in a ZIP code had the greatest impact on the rate of increase and that business formation coincided with the stimulus payments.

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COVID-19 and Cities, Demographics, Economic Development

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