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Research
Harris County Winter Storm Uri Resilience Assessment
This report provides a geographic analysis of damage caused by Winter Storm Uri and highlights the unmet needs it uncovered. This assessment also analyzed damages from COVID-19 and Hurricane Harvey to better understand how these crises compound on different communities and to identify where recovery efforts might make the biggest impact.
REPORT: February 23, 2022 GOVERNANCE | COVID 19 AND CITIES
COVID-19 Pandemic in the Houston Region (Parts 1-3)
This three-report series focuses on the impact of the pandemic on families's well-being, employment, education and more.
REPORT: March 29, 2021 COVID 19 AND CITIES | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
A Bottom-Up Infrastructure Strategy for American Renewal
This report identifies infrastructure priorities identified by local and regional leaders around the nation. Conclusions provide an important set of guideposts about priorities the new administration should take into account in crafting a national infrastructure strategy.
REPORT: February 10, 2021 COVID 19 AND CITIES | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | TRANSPORTATION
The 2020 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston
This first State of Housing report compares how dozens of key housing indicators in Harris County and Houston have shifted between 2010 and 2018.
REPORT: June 23, 2020 COVID 19 AND CITIES | HOUSING | TRANSPORTATION
This report examines the revenue structure and service levels for Texas' three largest cities: Houston, San Antonio and Dallas.
REPORT: May 28, 2020 COVID 19 AND CITIES | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | GOVERNANCE
Urban Edge
The United States of America leads all high-income nations in COVID-19 deaths, even though as a nation it had the greatest access to antiviral vaccines and therapeutics. To understand this disconnect, we can look to the COVID-19 deaths and disability in the state of Texas. Because of COVID-19, Texas is enduring one of the greatest human tragedies in its 186-year history. It did not have to be this way.
PERSPECTIVE: November 14, 2022 COVID 19 AND CITIES | HEALTH
With hybrid work here to stay, downtown Houston is looking for office conversion candidates
With the rise of a hybrid and remote workforce as a result of COVID-19, developers are looking for ways to be less reliant on office leases to keep people downtown.
INSIGHTS: November 1, 2022 COVID 19 AND CITIES | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
A look at Texas in 2021, the postpandemic year, in five charts
The American Community Survey, or ACS, helps track trends between official Census counts. Because it is a more wide-ranging survey than the official Census, it is able to capture an array of details about large populations. The release of some new 2021 data last month provides an opportunity to examine postpandemic shifts in population, housing, transportation and employment.
INSIGHTS: October 6, 2022 COVID 19 AND CITIES
Winter Storm Uri showed how Harris County needs a tailored approach to disaster recovery
This week marks the first anniversary of an especially grim event in Texas’ history. Winter Storm Uri touched nearly every corner of the state with power outages that affected millions of people and led to at least 246 lives lost. Unofficial counts put the death toll at three times that number.
RESEARCH: February 16, 2022 COVID 19 AND CITIES | HURRICANE HARVEY | URBAN DISPARITY
3 trends in urban planning that will shape how we live in the endemic-COVID era
It is now clear that the pandemic will not be behind us anytime soon. The pandemic variants and skepticism over the vaccine have made the potential for herd immunity (requiring a very high vaccination rate globally) difficult if not impossible to attain. This means that we are probably going to have to live with COVID for the foreseeable future and to adapt continuously to its impacts to our way of life.
: October 13, 2021 COVID 19 AND CITIES | TRANSPORTATION | URBAN PLANNING
Events
Webinar: 2022 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research shares findings from the third State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report.
RESEARCH: June 22, 2022 COVID 19 AND CITIES | HOUSING
Kinder Institute Forum: Richard Florida
Leading urbanist Richard Florida discusses the effect COVID-19 and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout have had on cities. He also outlines how post-pandemic, cities can rebuild to be more resilient and equitable.
KINDER INSTITUTE FORUM: March 18, 2021 COVID 19 AND CITIES | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | PLACEMAKING
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Physical Address
Rice University
Kraft Hall
6100 Main Street, Suite 305
Houston, TX 77005-1892