Research
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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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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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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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.
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Taking Stock: Housing Trends in the Houston Area
A report analyzing housing trends in the Houston metropolitan area.
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Houston and Harris County Housing Conversation
A summary of a stakeholder conversation on housing issues held in February, 2017.
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Urban Edge
Research shows benefits of guaranteed income as launch of Harris County pilot program nears
With applications for the new local guaranteed income program Uplift Harris now closed, the pilot is preparing to launch.
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Residents leave Houston neighborhoods thanks in part to climate change
According to a report by First Street Foundation, 9% of census blocks in Harris County are listed as “climate abandonment areas,” where people are moving out due at least partially to climate change-related flood risk and not being replaced by incoming homebuyers.
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Homeless coalition’s new CEO: Diversion, prevention key to reducing Houston’s unhoused population
With nearly 25 years of experience at social service agencies in Houston, Kelly Young is no stranger to the needs of the most vulnerable people in our area.
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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.
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With eviction rates high in Houston, tenants face a legal representation vacuum
The burden that the COVID-19 pandemic placed on renters helped lead to the founding of the Eviction Defense Coalition in March 2020. The member institutions, which operate in Harris County and Houston, continue to work in partnership while also arriving at similar but separate conclusions about the state of evictions in Houston.
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Events
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.
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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.
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