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How to Help the Highest-Need Student Loan Borrowers
A new Urban Institute report sheds light on who's most likely to default on student loans, and possible ways to help them.
How to Help the Highest-Need Student Loan Borrowers
A new Urban Institute report sheds light on who's most likely to default on student loans, and possible ways to help them.
Your Voting Habits May Depend on When You Registered to Vote
The Conversation | Research sheds light on who's most likely to vote and who's most likely to become a habitual voter.
Urban Review: Bike Safety, Transit Equity and a New Home Construction Program in Houston
This week, new research on the potential safety benefits of Houston's Bike Plan, a home construction program, getting transit equity right and more.
Flood Control Bond Has Support, Skepticism As Early Voting Begins
Early voting began Wednesday, with election day on Aug. 25, the anniversary of Hurricane Harvey's landfall.
Houston Metro's Next Steps Could Have Big Impacts, But For Whom Depends on Final Funding and Plans
With several still very preliminary plans for Metro's next steps on the table, how should we think about equity?
Texas High Schools Are Supposed to Help Students Register to Vote. Many Aren't.
A new study from the Texas Civil Rights Project tracked which schools had requested voter registration forms from the state and which hadn't.
Metro Presents Draft Long-Range Plan
Still preliminary, the plan includes airport rail connections, bus rapid transit and more but will likely face serious financial constraints.
Urban Review: Parking, A Football Oz and How To (Not) Write About Los Angeles
This week, new data on parking, a review of a fabricated sports city, the problem with work requirements and a lesson in writing about Los Angeles (and all cities).
Families with Children Are Renting More
Houston had the largest increase in families with children who rented of the 30 biggest metropolitan areas between 2006 and 2016.
Urban Review: Parks versus People, Prenatal Care in Texas and School to Prison Research
This week's roundup covers a new analysis of maternal risk factors across Texas, asks whether big park projects and the communities around them can get along, looks at law enforcement referrals in schools after high-profile shootings and even a Drake reference.
Voice of San Diego | As the government struggles to stay on top of the surge in prosecutions of those accused of entering the country illegally, prosecutors are making errors they normally wouldn’t.
Urban Review: Extreme Heat, MUDs and Rainwater
This week's roundup includes extreme heat, municipal utility districts after Harvey and a smarter stormwater management system in Los Angeles.
Where Intermarriage Is Increasing the Most
While it's increasing overall, the change varies by county.
Urban Review: Texas Highways Forever, A Digital Humanities Response to Family Separation and More
In this week's roundup: basic universal income, mapping ICE, the future of bus driving and why Texas keeps building highways.
City of Houston Looks to Expand Homebuyer Assistance
Though the level of subsidies a qualified homebuyer receives has decreased in recent years, the city hopes to turn that around to stem a housing affordability crisis.
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