This report connects housing stock changes with gentrification patterns in Harris County.
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HOUSING
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Texas Flood Registry 2020 Report
This report includes updates on Harvey’s long-term impact and recent findings about the health and housing effects of the May 2019 storms and Tropical Storm Imelda.
REPORT:
HOUSING | PUBLIC HEALTH | DISASTER RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY
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:
TRANSPORTATION | HOUSING
Where Affordable Housing and Transportation Meet in Houston
While local decision-makers and individuals tend to view housing and transportation separately, effectively addressing affordability for Houstonians means considering housing and transportation expenses together.
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TRANSPORTATION | HOUSING | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Community Resilience Initiatives: Building Stronger Neighborhoods in Houston
Effective efforts at the neighborhood level can be sustained and amplified by plugging into broader citywide efforts in ways that better align long-term goals and influence implementation plans at both levels.
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HOUSING
Housing Choice Voucher Mobility in Houston
This report identifies patterns in the household movements of residents who hold Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) in Harris County. It identifies who among the voucher holders are moving, where they are moving to and from, and whether or not these moves are related to attempts to access opportunity or to avoid pressures such as gentrification, flood risk, and high rents.
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HOUSING
Neighborhood Gentrification across Harris County: 1990 to 2016
The inventory of affordable housing has been diminishing and this report documents where in Houston it's diminishing the fastest.
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HOUSING | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Governing A Growing Region: Addressing Challenges of Service Provision and Development in Houston
This report takes a regional view to find major issues with the way our growth is governed.
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HOUSING
Building a More Resilient Housing System Event Report
This report by the Houston office of Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research highlights key learnings and strategies from the “Building a More Resilient Housing System” event held on March 27, 2018.
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HOUSING | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund Needs Assessment: Phase Two
The second phase of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s needs assessment work on behalf of the Greater Houston Community Foundation and the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING | DISASTER RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY
Cementing Millennials Downtown: Expressions and Impacts
This report explores how real estate developers are cementing Millennials in the downtowns of two Sun Belt cities, Phoenix and Houston, which are emerging sites of Millennial migration.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING
Growing But Unequal: Mapping High Opportunity Areas and Implications for Affordable Housing
Analysis of the location of low-income housing tax credit developments in Houston.
REPORT:
HOUSING | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Taking Stock: Housing Trends in the Houston Area
A report analyzing housing trends in the Houston metropolitan area.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING
Houston and Harris County Housing Conversation
A summary of a stakeholder conversation on housing issues held in February, 2017.
REPORT:
HOUSING | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Urban Edge
Left in the cold: These Houston residents report lack of safe, reliable heating in winter
Early results from a Kinder Institute survey show 12% of Harris County residents don’t have safe, reliable heat at home.
RESEARCH:
HOUSING | PUBLIC HEALTH | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Are corporate buyers hogging single-family homes in Harris County? Here’s what the data shows.
A Kinder Institute analysis shows nine large companies own about 1% of single-family homes in Harris County.
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HOUSING
Urban Edge’s most-read stories in 2025: Public housing, population growth articles top the list
These seven Urban Edge articles garnered the most reader interest in a busy year for Houston.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING | FAMILY AND FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
Houston’s committee for enforcing apartment standards sits dormant. Will City Council revive it?
On a typical day in Houston, the city’s 311 helpline receives roughly 10 complaints about busted pipes, broken heaters, stinky sewage and other predicaments plaguing apartments.
City staff route the calls to health, neighborhoods, solid waste and other departments to tackle problems. But several City Council members are looking to proactively hold landlords accountable for operating the area’s most run-down complexes — and they’re eyeing a long-dormant committee to make it happen.
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HOUSING
Houston’s housing problems aren’t limited to affordability and vulnerability to storms.
Early findings from the Kinder Institute’s ongoing Housing Quality Registry suggest unreliable heating and cooling, persistent pests and damaging leaks rank among the most common housing issues afflicting Houstonians.
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HOUSING
Events
Workshop: 2020 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston
This workshop shares findings from the Kinder Institute's 2020 State of Housing report. Panelists also discuss the current housing situation in Houston during COVID-19
RESEARCH: October 15, 2020 HOUSING
Webinar: 2020 State of Housing in Houston and Harris County
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research shared findings from its inaugural State of Housing in Houston and Harris County report.
RESEARCH: June 23, 2020 HOUSING
The Urban Sun Belt: Setting The Agenda
This webinar explores findings from a report from the Kinder Institute on the urban Sun Belt – covering such topics as demographic change, the economy, housing, and sprawl. A panel discussion follows the presentation
RESEARCH: June 11, 2020 DEMOGRAPHICS | HOUSING | TRANSPORTATION
Webinar: Linking Quality Transportation and Affordable Housing
This webinar by LINK Houston and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research explores the nexus between transit and housing.
RESEARCH: May 5, 2020 HOUSING | TRANSPORTATION
Kinder Institute Forum: Henry Cisneros
Former Mayor and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros shares strategies for inclusive growth, improving urban and social infrastructure and planning for affordable housing.
KINDER INSTITUTE FORUM: October 24, 2019 HOUSING
Kinder Institute Forum: Maurice Cox
Maurice Cox, director of planning and development for the city of Detroit, Michigan, discusses creative design and community engagement as strategies for long-term equitable development.
KINDER INSTITUTE FORUM: May 23, 2019 HOUSING | PLACEMAKING
Kinder Institute Forum: Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein, an accomplished scholar of education and housing policy and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, discusses how laws and policies at the federal, state and local levels have promoted and enforced the residential racial segregation that exists today.
KINDER INSTITUTE FORUM: February 14, 2019 EDUCATION | HOUSING
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Physical Address
Rice University
Kraft Hall
6100 Main Street, Suite 305
Houston, TX 77005-1892