Immigrants make up a growing share of the US population and by 2040 foreign-born households will constitute the primary source of new housing demand. However, little is known…
Sharon Cornelissen, Alexander Hermann
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July 12, 2023
During the pandemic, as lockdowns to reduce the spread of COVID-19 prompted widespread loss of work, millions of renters and homeowners fell behind on their housing payments…
Sharon Cornelissen, Alexander Hermann, Peyton Whitney
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June 26, 2023
Small multifamily homes are a popular means of facilitating immigrant homeownership. Since 2019, co-author Sharon has conducted ethnographic and qualitative research in…
Sharon Cornelissen, Luisa Godinez-Puig
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May 10, 2023
Residential racial segregation is not only on the rise, but is shifting locations: recent research found that 81 percent of all US metros over 200,000 residents were more…
Luisa Godinez-Puig, Sharon Cornelissen
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May 8, 2023
Racial segregation and the unequal allocation of resources have long shaped American cities, through a history of both overt and subtle racist policies and practices. While…
No one did more to build the non-profit housing sector in the United States than Bob Whittlesey, who died on February 27 of this year at the age of 101.
Contrary to the…
Sharon Cornelissen, Christine Jang-Trettien
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April 25, 2023
In today’s overheated housing market, gentrification remains a pressing concern. Yet, disinvestment and decline remain surprisingly common in lower-income neighborhoods.…
Across the United States, many institutions, private businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and citizens have come together to create and govern public and…
Since 2019 I have conducted research on how rising housing prices in Boston displace long-time residents and the impacts on smaller cities and towns on the edge of the larger…
Sharon Cornelissen, Daniel McCue
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January 5, 2023
Efforts to close the historically large Black-white homeownership gap should take account of the fact that many Black households are headed by immigrants, particularly in the…