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Keep On Dreaming: Barriers to Homeownership in the United States and York City, PA

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

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The Program "It's About Change" Annual Report 2020-2021

The Program “It’s About Change” focuses on preventing recidivism in York and Harrisburg. This report details the organization’s impact, including the number of clients, their demographic characteristics, and services provided.

Report
Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership

In this book, Taplin-Kaguru explores how the exclusion of Black Americans from homeownership has impacted the larger system of race inequality in America, including disparities in education, health, employment, and criminal justice.

Book
Perceptions of Discrimination Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness

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.

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Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty

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.

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Failing the Least Advantaged: An Unintended Consequence of Local Implementation of the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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

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Communities of Color Poised to Lose Their Homes as Eviction Moratoriums Lift

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.

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Family Dynamics, Housing, and Recurring Homelessness Among Women in New York City Homeless Shelters

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

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Making the Case for Affordable Housing: Connecting Housing with Health and Education Outcomes

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.

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Before the Pandemic, Homeowners of Color Faced Structural Barriers to the Benefits of Homeownership

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.

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How we live—York county's black community, 1969-2017

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.

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Demographic Characteristics for Occupied Housing Units in America

This chart shows the disparities in homeownership as it relates to the race of residents in occupied housing units and can be used to support claims of housing discrimination.

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Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Housing: Rethinking Renting and Owning in Post-Crisis America

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”

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Having housing made everything else possible': Affordable, safe and stable housing for women survivors of violence

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.

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Third Federal Reserve Rental Housing Affordability Data

This tool depicts trends of rental housing affordability from 2011 to 2018 in the Third Federal Reserve District, breaking down cost burdens for extremely low income, very low income, and low income individuals.

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Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in the Third Federal Reserve District: 2015

This study researches the affordable housing supply deficit in the Third Federal Reserve District. Divringi finds that extremely and very low income renters are most affected by a lack of affordable housing supply.

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Community Outlook Survey: Rental Unaffordability, Homelessness, and Declining Resources Identified as Key Challenges in Housing and Neighborhood Development

This report provides context to the affordable housing crisis in the Third Federal Reserve District. A lack of access to financial capital makes it difficult for residents to find consistent, quality housing and afford basic necessities.

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Rusk reports 1, 2 and 3

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.

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