This article explore the barriers faced by people interested in homeownership. The author identifies three main barriers: affordability, systemic, and personal.

As governments switch over information about and application processes for public assistance, Monticello finds that they divert less resources to non-digital points of contact for citizens such as call centers and case work offices

Researchers use 1,824 interview with people who have a serious mental illness to explain the frequent housing, employment, and education discrimination this group experiences.

Desmond studies the link between evictions and the cycle of poverty using multiple methods to study the impact of evictions in a Milwaukee trailer community. He finds that eviction is a more common occurrence in urban, black communities, and that black women are evicted at a much more significant rate than any other demographic.

Kim explores how the allocation of limited public resources for low-income housing programs can exacerbate inequality among those in poverty.

Black and brown Americans have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Once the federal eviction moratorium is over, communities of color are going to be hit the hardest with mass evictions, which will increase their overall poverty and homeownership rates.

This article explains repeated homelessness among women to advocate for more public housing and support services to limit the issue.

This article supports the need for quality housing and explains how public perceptions influence policy. Mueller and Tighe examine the connections between housing insecurity and health and education.

This report shows how the benefits to homeownership have been unequally distributed among communities of color and how racial discrimination has reduced the financial benefits of homeownership.

Since the race riots in 1968 and 1969, the black and white income gap in York has remained unchanged. The median income of black households has decreased, and family poverty of black households has increased, making it even harder for black households to afford the rising costs of homeownership.

This article goes into the social impact of housing policy, and how it is responsible for the construction of “socially intolerance ideologies around neighborhood desirability and who constitutes desirable neighbors”

Rusk says that the “little box” structure of local government “impedes meaningful collaboration on key issues like anti-sprawl land use planning and zoning; ‘fair share’ affordable, mixed income housing; tax base and revenue sharing; economic development initiatives;” and other shared services.

The researchers use qualitative interviews to study the safety, housing stability, service utilization and health outcomes for women who are victims of intimate partner violence.

In this interview, food justice advocate Karen Washington encourages the use of the term “food apartheid” instead of “food desert” to refer to how food systems intersect with poverty, racism, healthcare, and unemployment.

This research examines the use of community and economic development grants in metro areas, comparing which areas see greater rates of investment than others and for what purposes grants are allotted.

Rusk explains the impact of suburban sprawl and concentrated poverty on the quality of life of York County residents. He provides recommendations for solutions, including mixed-income housing, county resource-sharing, and urban revival.