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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…

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…

Small multifamily homes are a popular means of facilitating immigrant homeownership. Since 2019, co-author Sharon has conducted ethnographic and qualitative research in…

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…

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…

In today’s overheated housing market, gentrification remains a pressing concern. Yet, disinvestment and decline remain surprisingly common in lower-income neighborhoods.…

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…

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…

Home prices have risen dramatically over the past two years as growth in the number of households and rising home demand have met limited housing supply. From April 2021 to…

Many researchers have shown how the built environment of a neighborhood and individual characteristics such as class, gender, and race, shape urban interactions. But only a…