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The Shifting City: Houston's Unequal History of Racial Change
This report provides a comprehensive look at the evolution of the Houston area’s racial/ethnic composition on a small geographic scale.
REPORT: June 1, 2016 DEMOGRAPHICS | URBAN DISPARITY
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2016 Results
35th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey
REPORT: April 25, 2016 DEMOGRAPHICS | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
A set of maps that capture Houston's segregation as well as concentrated opportunity and disadvantage.
REPORT: March 1, 2016 DEMOGRAPHICS | URBAN DISPARITY
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2015 Results
The 2015 Kinder Houston Area Survey tracks Harris County perspectives on the local economy, traffic and ethnic diversity.
REPORT: April 30, 2015 DEMOGRAPHICS | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
Multiple Components of Race Data Library
Library of publicly available data sets on race
REPORT: January 5, 2015 DEMOGRAPHICS
Copenhagen Area Survey Highlights
Now in its second year, the Kinder Institute’s Copenhagen Area Survey provides insight into the evolution of public opinions in a place widely considered to have some of the happiest residents in the world.
REPORT: January 1, 2015 DEMOGRAPHICS
Shared Prospects: Hispanics and the Future of Houston
The rich data from this research provide a rare opportunity to explore systematically the experiences and perspectives of the different Hispanic communities over time and to assess their prospects for the future.
REPORT: November 3, 2014 DEMOGRAPHICS | IMMIGRATION | PLACEMAKING
Houston Area Asian Survey: Diversity and Transformation Among Asians in Houston
Survey data provides insight into Houston's diverse Asian communities.
REPORT: February 4, 2013 DEMOGRAPHICS | IMMIGRATION | PLACEMAKING
Houston Region Diversity Report
A joint report analyzing Census data from 1990, 2000 and 2010.
REPORT: March 1, 2012 DEMOGRAPHICS
Public Perceptions in Remarkable Times: Tracking Change Through 24 Years of Houston Surveys
Drawing on more than 20 years of survey data, this report seeks to tell the story of Houston and its communities.
REPORT: March 1, 2005 DEMOGRAPHICS | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
Houston's Ethnic Communities: Third Edition
With immigration and economic transformation guiding shifts in the Houston area and across the country, this report draws on several years worth of survey data to capture the way these new realities are being experienced by members of Houston's ethnic populations.
REPORT: March 1, 1996 DEMOGRAPHICS | IMMIGRATION | PLACEMAKING
Urban Edge
A Houston initiative helped 2,000 people of color become homeowners — but there’s more work to do
After renting for the majority of her adult life, Tonia Macklin recently became a homeowner for the first time. The native of southeast Houston achieved this goal with the assistance of the Harris County Homeownership Collaborative’s Own the HOU initiative, a multiorganization effort that seeks to bridge the homeownership gap for people of color.
FEATURES: September 19, 2024 DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING
After getting the lights back on, what’s Houston’s biggest problem going forward?
Over the course of about four weeks early in 2024, residents across Harris County were asked their opinions on a variety of topics as part of the Kinder Houston Area Survey. That includes a question that has been asked every year since the survey’s founding in 1982: “What would you say is the biggest problem facing people in the Houston area today?”
RESEARCH: May 20, 2024 DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
While Harris County grows a little, its suburbs see big change
Harris County is continuing to grow, but not at the rate of neighboring counties, a trend established more than a decade ago that has more recently emerged among other big counties statewide.
DATA: April 5, 2024 DEMOGRAPHICS | URBAN DISPARITY
Houston needs improving. Are Houstonians really willing to pay for it?
From parks to police to garbage pickup, our surveys have tapped into a surprising level of support for raising revenues to help the city of Houston improve services and raise the quality of life across the city. What should we make of that? Are Houstonians really willing to pay more for better local government?
PERSPECTIVES: January 4, 2024 DEMOGRAPHICS
10 in 2023: Top stories from the Urban Edge
Housing costs, the economy, increasing demands on income and concerns about the environment weighed on the minds of Urban Edge readers in 2023.
FEATURES: December 20, 2023 DEMOGRAPHICS | EDUCATION | HOUSING
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