Browsing by Author "Kinder Institute for Urban Research"

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    A Tale of Two Departments: Public Health in Harris County and the City of Houston
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2021) Fulton, William; Witt, Alan; Fedorowicz, Nikola; Mokrushina, Ksenia; Shelton, Kyle; Guajardo, Luis; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    The purpose of this report is to take a fresh look at possible service overlaps between the Harris County Department of Public Health and the City of Houston Department of Health and Human Services and identify options to reduce those overlaps and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the public health delivery system.
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    Annual Report 2017
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2018) Rougeau, Rose; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    In 2017, close to two dozen research reports were released, focusing on a wide range of policy concerns including Hurricane Harvey, resilience, gentrification, affordable housing and transportation.
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    Annual Report 2018
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2019) Rougeau, Rose; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    In 2018, while Hurricane Harvey continued to influence many Kinder Institute studies, the institute narrowed its focus to six key issues, including demographics, education, transportation, housing, governance and post-Harvey resiliency.
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    Annual Report 2019
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2020) Rougeau, Rose; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    In 2019, the Kinder Institute helped shape critical conversations on important urban issues including the use of federal housing vouchers, barriers for small manufacturers and the benefits of arts education. The institute also served as the strategic research partner for Understanding Houston, Greater Houston Community Foundation's regional indicators project.
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    Annual Report 2020
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2021) Rougeau, Rose; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    In 2020, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research celebrated its 10th anniversary. COVID-19 and a renewed concern over racial injustice would dominate the year, and the institute pivoted its research and events in accordance.
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    Examining Equitable Access to Health Resources, Support Staff and Technology Across HISD
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2023) Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    This series of briefs examined whether students across different Houston Independent School District campuses had equitable access to health resources, support staff and technology.
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    Harris County Winter Storm Uri Resilience Assessment in Harris County
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2022) Kinder Institute for Urban Research; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    This report provides a geographic analysis of damage caused by Winter Storm Uri and highlights the unmet needs it uncovered. Additionally, researchers analyzed the damage from three disaster events—Winter Storm Uri, COVID-19 and Hurricane Harvey—to better understand the impact of compounding crises. The report also includes a resilience assessment of both the housing stock and the population, to make sense of overlapping patterns that could underpin future disaster recovery programming and policy priorities. Lastly, focus group findings are included, conversations which were instrumental in analyzing Winter Storm Uri and Compounding Damage information.
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    Observing the silent world under COVID-19 with a comprehensive impact analysis based on human mobility
    (Springer Nature, 2021) Wang, Shaobin; Tong, Yun; Fan, Yupeng; Liu, Haimeng; Wu, Jun; Wang, Zheye; Fang, Chuanglin; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    Since spring 2020, the human world seems to be exceptionally silent due to mobility reduction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To better measure the real-time decline of human mobility and changes in socio-economic activities in a timely manner, we constructed a silent index (SI) based on Google’s mobility data. We systematically investigated the relations between SI, new COVID-19 cases, government policy, and the level of economic development. Results showed a drastic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on increasing SI. The impact of COVID-19 on human mobility varied significantly by country and place. Bi-directional dynamic relationships between SI and the new COVID-19 cases were detected, with a lagging period of one to two weeks. The travel restriction and social policies could immediately affect SI in one week; however, could not effectively sustain in the long run. SI may reflect the disturbing impact of disasters or catastrophic events on the activities related to the global or national economy. Underdeveloped countries are more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Study on Social and Emotional Skills
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2023) Ying, Ming; Szabo, Julia; Baumgartner, Erin; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    The Study of Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) is an international effort led by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Houston Independent School District (HISD) served as the only U.S. site for this study. Over 6,400 10-year-old and 15-year-old students from 119 HISD schools participated in the SSES in the fall of 2019. This series of briefs looks at how social and emotional skills are related to academic outcomes, absenteeism, and exclusionary discipline; the context of SSES skills; and the commonalities and differences between students’ self-ratings and teachers’ ratings of students’ SE skills.
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    The 2020 Kinder Houston Area Survey
    (Rice University, 2020) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    For close to four decades, the Kinder Houston Area Survey has been tracking the changing attitudes and experiences of Houstonians.
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    The 2022 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston Kinder Houston Area Survey: At the Forefront of a Changing America
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2022) Park, John; Sherman, Stephen Averill; Guajardo, Luis; Fulton, William; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    The third annual State of Housing report documents a rapidly changing housing environment in Houston and Harris County. Due to delays in data released from the U.S. Census and the American Communities Survey, the 2022 report relied more on data from other sources, especially the Houston Associations of Realtors (HAR) and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The HAR data, in particular, helped us understand the dramatic changes in the home ownership market, especially rising prices and low inventory. The HMDA data provided us with rich insight into trends in home mortgages.
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    The Fortieth Year of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: Into the Post-Pandemic Future
    (Rice University, 2021) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Bozick, Robert; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    For the past four decades, Rice University's Kinder Houston Area Survey (KHAS) has been tracking systematically the continuities and changes in the attitudes and beliefs, opinions, and experiences of Harris County residents. More than 48,000 area residents have been interviewed, and the surveys have revealed important shifts in perspectives during this period of remarkable economic and demographic change. The final interviews for the 2020 survey were completed last year just days before Houston was hit by the yearlong health pandemic, economic shutdown, collapse in oil prices, and the killing of George Floyd, prompting a new sensitivity to systemic racism and concerns about the deepening inequalities in general. The 2021 survey enables us to ask in what specific ways and to what measurable extent have Harris County residents been personally impacted by the events of this remarkable year.
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    The Forty-First Year of the Kinder Houston Area Survey: At the Forefront of a Changing America
    (Rice University, 2022) Klineberg, Stephen L.; Bozick, Robert; Kinder Institute for Urban Research; Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    Over the course of the past forty-one years, the “Kinder Houston Area Survey” has been measuring systematically the attitudes, beliefs, demographic characteristics, and life experiences of successive representative samples of Harris County residents. The 2022 survey was conducted in Harris County during January and February of 2022, using a new, web-based survey methodology. It begins with an assessment of the top-of-the-head concerns of area residents, as traffic congestion subsides and economic anxieties re-emerge as “the biggest problem facing people in the Houston area today,” with crime a close second, followed by concerns about the COVID pandemic. It also assesses the deepening economic inequalities in this city, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
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    The Houston Pension Question: How the City’s Pension Liability Grew and the Options for Reform
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2016) Kinder Institute for Urban Research
    Houston today faces an increasing unfunded liability for its employee pensions that totals at least $3.9 billion, as of 2015, up from $212 million in 1992. If no action is taken, that unfunded liability (officially known as the unfunded actuarial accrual liability, or UAAL) is expected to continue growing. However, the city has some options—however painful—that can reduce the unfunded liability and restrain its future growth.
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    Where Affordable Housing and Transportation Meet in Houston
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2020) Kinder Institute for Urban Research; LINK Houston
    "Where Affordable Housing and Transportation Meet in Houston" examines where affordable housing and high-quality, affordable transportation presently co-exist. This report provides policy recommendations to help government and nongovernment stakeholders in the City of Houston address affordability issues in the region. This report also aims to help individuals and families make wellinformed decisions about where to live to minimize their expenses while accessing social and economic opportunity using quality, affordable transportation — walking on good sidewalks, biking on protected bikeways and riding frequent transit.