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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.

Article
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.

Article
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”

Article
School District of the City of York Performance Audit

This audit evaluates York City’s school safety, finances, administration, inventory procedures, and compliance with state laws, regulations, contracts, and procedures.

Report
Identifying Opportunity Occupations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware

This research looks at the economies of 11 metropolitan statistical areas in Pennsylvania and explores the extent to which they include opportunity occupations, or occupations characterized by above-average pay for workers without a bachelor’s degree.

Report
York County Hispanic and Latinx Community Assessment

This report uses surveys and focus groups to understand the needs of York County’s Hispanic and Latinx population.

Report
Community Outlook Survey: Identifying Key Challenges and Promising Opportunities in Workforce and Economic Development

Those in the Third Federal Reserve District who cannot access the means to attain education or job training find it difficult to secure well-paying employment. This report identifies the main barriers to this kind of employment and opportunities to grow a local workforce.

Report
Mapping Our Community: Philanthropic Grant Funding for Community and Economic Development in the Third District

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.

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