Neighborhoods
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The Child Factor: Drilling Down on Income Segregation
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Income segregation in neighborhoods in the United States has increased over the past few decades, but certain demographic groups have experienced a sharper rise than others. Only two-thirds of households in the United States are families, defined as two or more people related by birth, marriage, or adoption. The other…
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Understanding Resistance to Neighborhood Densification
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New research reveals that increased diverse and unknown social interactions are the main causes of resistance to neighborhood densification among residents of urban areas.
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Moving to Opportunity: How Housing Policy Can Disrupt the Persistence of Poverty
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What matters for future economic success is the amount of childhood exposure to better neighborhoods.
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Ending Poverty? Modern Slums and Stagnation in Government Action
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Researchers find that the mechanisms behind past slum development success stories do not adequately translate to fixing slums in the modern developing world.
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Accessible Art: The New Way Forward for Culture in Chicago
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Nick Rabkin discusses the benefits and costs of the new Chicago Cultural Plan and its relevance for the city’s residents
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Still Unequal, Less Separate
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A recent paper found that Americans are highly segregated by income. A new paper finds the opposite is true for race.