Research

If you are disabled and live in the Houston area, we’d love to hear your story

The Kinder Institute for Urban Research is launching a new survey to better understand housing and neighborhood challenges faced by those living with disabilities in Houston.

Is development fueled by transit driving residents out in some areas?

Extensions of light rail service in areas with easy access to Houston’s major job centers have brought residential and commercial development to those areas. Researchers at the Kinder Institute wanted to find out if and how transit investments impact patterns of gentrification in the city.

Houston small-business survey reveals how city and state can better support manufacturers

Small businesses are only as successful as the policy, investment and regulatory environment they operate in. For small enterprises especially, flexibility and nimbleness are critical to growth. To thrive, clear pathways must exist for firms, regardless of size, to effectively scale, expand operations and further contributions to the economy, through new jobs, tax revenue streams and technological innovation. 

How grassroots efforts rewrote history to place communities' needs first in U.S. Refugee Resettlement Policy

By most measures, Texas might be the least likely source for new methods of refugee resettlement to arise today. 

Health care coverage may keep households from 'falling over the brink,' research finds

Researchers at Columbia University and Boston University found expanding Medicaid in America may help reduce eviction rates.

Housing Choice Voucher research shows who’s most likely to move toward opportunity

The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program offers subsidy recipients the advantage and freedom to choose a rental location, unlike other project-based affordable housing programs

Houston's Near Northside neighborhood's sidewalks, biking infrastructure surveyed by Kinder Institute

On Saturday, Kinder Institute for Urban Research staff and community volunteers came together at the BakerRipley Leonel Castillo Community Center to conduct a walking and biking infrastructure survey of the Near Northside neighborhood.

America can use other countries to gain a better understanding of neighborhood inequality

One researcher offers new insights into opportunity, comparing Germany and the United States.

Survey reveals inequalities in Houston, including nearly four in ten residents can't afford a $400 emergency expense

While Houston's diversity is helping close racial divides, the class divides are growing increasingly wider.

Black and Hispanic respondents of new survey value education more than their white counterparts

The Kinder Houston Area Survey shows more people believe schools need more money to provide quality education.

Not only is Houston getting more diverse, but residents' households are, too

More Houstonians are bringing diversity into their homes through friendships and romantic relationships, according to a new survey.

More Houston residents long to close the inequality gap, improve schools, have more interethnic relationships and accept immigrants, survey shows

For 38 years, Rice University's Kinder Houston Area Survey has tracked the social changes and political perspectives of Bayou City residents.

HERC report aims to help Texas achieve its 60x30 goal

After following Texas eighth-graders for twelve years after their high school graduation, the Houston Education Research Consortium found that 29 percent of Texas graduates get post-secondary degrees.

Survey aims to help small manufacturers, artists succeed in Houston

Houston's economy is known for oil, gas and energy, but the local economy is built on much more, including small manufacturers.

Kinder Institute seeks to make Houston one of the most-studied cities in America through Urban Data Platform

Session at the Urban Affairs Association conference highlights Kinder Institute’s efforts to encourage scholars to study Houston’s pressing issues.