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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.
REPORT: May 5, 2020 TRANSPORTATION | HOUSING | URBAN DISPARITY
In this study, we seek to understand the nature of collaborations between organizations working in the food insecurity and food desert social spaces in Houston.
REPORT: March 13, 2019 HEALTH | URBAN DISPARITY
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.
REPORT: December 13, 2018 HOUSING | URBAN DISPARITY
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.
REPORT: June 27, 2018 HOUSING | URBAN DISPARITY | HURRICANE HARVEY
Refugee Realities: Between National Challenges and Local Responsibilities in Houston, TX
This report provides a comprehensive picture of ongoing challenges to refugee resettlement in Houston.
REPORT: June 7, 2018 DEMOGRAPHICS | IMMIGRATION | URBAN DISPARITY
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: November 28, 2017 HOUSING | URBAN DISPARITY
Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund Needs Assessment: Phase One
The first 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.
REPORT: November 13, 2017 DEMOGRAPHICS | HURRICANE HARVEY | URBAN DISPARITY
Houston and Harris County Housing Conversation
A summary of a stakeholder conversation on housing issues held in February, 2017.
REPORT: February 20, 2017 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | HOUSING | URBAN DISPARITY
Streetlights in the City: Understanding the Distribution of Houston Streetlights
This reports documents and analyzes the location of streetlights in Houston.
REPORT: February 14, 2017 URBAN DISPARITY
Disparate City: Understanding Rising Levels of Concentrated Poverty and Affluence in Greater Houston
This report examines the clustering of poverty and the uneven distribution of economic circumstances across Greater Houston.
REPORT: October 26, 2016 URBAN DISPARITY
This report attempts to assess and map the Opportunity Youth and Young Adult population as well outline strategies for success for educators, service providers and employers looking to prevent and combat disengagement.
REPORT: September 28, 2016 DEMOGRAPHICS | URBAN DISPARITY
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
A set of maps that capture Houston's segregation as well as concentrated opportunity and disadvantage.
REPORT: March 1, 2016 DEMOGRAPHICS | URBAN DISPARITY
Urban Edge
In ‘A Good Reputation,’ Houston’s Northside offers diverging views on neighborhood change
In an April 2014 Houstonia Magazine article, “Where to Live Now: The 25 Hottest Neighborhoods of 2014,” the authors claimed that gentrification had “leapt beyond the Heights and into Lindale Park and Brooke Smith,” which meant that “Northside Village” was the “the next play for urban pioneers.”
EXCERPTS: February 3, 2025 HOUSING | URBAN DISPARITY
Q&A: For Houston’s working poor, rising costs mean tougher choices
Over 725,000 households in the Houston area earn an income above the federal poverty line but cannot cover the rising cost of all of their essential needs, such as housing, health care and food, according to data compiled by United Way.
INTERVIEWS: January 6, 2025 URBAN DISPARITY
Housing, disasters, money and education: The Urban Edge in 2024
Extreme weather, the shortage of affordable housing and the benefits of prekindergarten were of greatest interest to Urban Edge readers this year, especially as they pertain to the Houston region.
FEATURES: December 23, 2024 URBAN DISPARITY
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
Seeking Solutions: Connect Community bolsters success of new immigrants in southwest Houston
Since its founding in 2016, Connect Community and its partners have put $126 million toward community development and holistic revitalization in the Gulfton and Sharpstown neighborhoods in southwest Houston.
SEEKING SOLUTIONS: February 1, 2024 IMMIGRATION | URBAN DISPARITY
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