This event will focus on the changing demographic composition of the Greater Houston region and what these trends mean for the schools, districts and organizations providing support to an evolving student population.
The 2025 State of Housing report highlights Harris County and Houston’s intersecting challenges around affordability, flooding, extreme heat, poor air quality, insufficient housing stock, and the rising cost of insurance to protect households from these vulnerabilities.
This study looks at how parent participants feel about HISD's Parent University program and if it has motivated parental engagement and advocacy in the district.
This third Coffee & Quality case study focuses on Wesley Community Center, a social service agency that supports individuals in the Near Northside and broader Houston community. The study seeks to understand the impact of Wesley's programs, including identifying those most effective in helping families achieve financial stability.
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research and United Way of Greater Houston's Coffee & Quality Case Study program works with designated United Way organizations to 1) identify ways to build and bolster the organization's current data-collecting practices, 2) use data to understand and improve program outcomes, and 3) elevate generalizable insights that can support the work of other nonprofits.
This year’s Kinder Houston Area Survey reflects on the region’s continued growth, highlighting residents’ perspectives on what makes the area attractive as well as the challenges that stand to undermine its prosperity.
This research study examines the current levels of both perceived and actual disaster preparedness among Houston and Harris County residents, as well as contextual and sociocognitive predictors of each.
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Houston Education Research Consortium partnered with Aldine ISD, an urban school district serving predominantly economically disadvantaged and minority students, to better understand how self-reported teacher and student SEL skills were associated with campus disciplinary practices.
This snapshot explores Houston-area residents' self-reported financial knowledge, use of banks and use of more modern financial technology applications.