Browsing by Author "Potter, Dan"

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    Beyond Dollars and Cents: Exploring Budgeting, Saving, and Financial Security in the Houston Area
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Njeh, Joy; Niznik, Aaron; Potter, Dan
    This study explores Harris County residents’ financial security, looking at their budgeting and saving practices, barriers people face to budgeting and saving, and how these practices relate to someone being able to withstand economic shocks.
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    Coffee & Quality Case Study #1: Angel Reach
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2024) Perez, Katherine; Potter, Dan; Williams, Lee; Davison, Jessica; Delgado, Elias; Krolow, Korinne
    The Kinder Institute for Urban Research and United Way of Greater Houston created a program called Coffee & Quality Case Study that works with designated United Way organizations to 1) identify ways to build and bolster the organization's current data-collecting practices and 2) use data to understand and improve program outcomes. The first Coffee & Quality Case Study focused on Angel Reach (https://angelreach.org/), a nonprofit working with young people aging out of the foster care system and/or at risk of homelessness.
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    Coffee & Quality Case Study #2: Alexander Jewish Family Service
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the United Way of Greater Houston, 2024) Potter, Dan; Williams, Lee; Perez, Katherine; Davison, Jessica
    The Kinder Institute for Urban Research and United Way of Greater Houston created a program called Coffee & Quality Case Study that works with designated United Way organizations to 1) identify ways to build and bolster the organization's current data-collecting practices and 2) use data to understand and improve program outcomes. The second Coffee & Quality Case Study focused on Alexander Jewish Family Services, a nonprofit working with individuals of all ages located in southwest Houston.
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    Housing Affordability and Instability
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Potter, Dan; Dawson, Lauren; DeLisi, Anna; Niznik, Aaron; Njeh, Joy; Perez, Katherine; Pren, Karen; Simburger, Dylan; Valikhanova, Aiganym; Williams, Lee
    This snapshot looked at housing affordability and instability in the Houston area. Residents were asked how difficult it was in the past 12 months to afford housing costs, and if certain factors such as increasing rents or utility bills, contributed to the difficulty they experienced. Residents were also asked whether the challenges they faced had forced them to move in the past year.
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    Safety Climate in the Houston Fire Department
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Dawson, Lauren; Niznik, Aaron; Potter, Dan
    In summer 2023, the Houston Fire Department (HFD) partnered with Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research in order to better understand the safety climate of its department. In the workplace, safety climate refers to employees’ shared perceptions of their organization’s safety policies, procedures, and practices, and the types of behaviors that are supported and rewarded by leadership. Safety climate is predictive of actual safety behaviors in the workplace as well as safety-related outcomes, such as injuries, fatalities, and near-misses (Jiang et al., 2018; Beus et al., 2010). By better understanding the climate at its stations, HFD sought to take steps to improve its safety culture in order to create a safer workplace for its first responders, whose jobs often place them in unsafe situations.
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    What 'Home' Means to Residents in the Houston Area
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Niznik, Aaron; Dawson, Lauren; DeLisi, Anna; Goolsby, Karen P.; Njeh, Joy; Perez, Katherine; Potter, Dan; Simburger, Dylan; Valikhanova, Aiganym; Williams, Lee
    The idea of “home” is a multidimensional concept that encapsulates a variety of meanings, ranging from psychological orientations and physical locations to the relationships that unfold within. In the summer of 2024, members of the Greater Houston Community Panel were surveyed and asked, “What do you think of when you hear the word ‘home’?” and given an open space to write 1-2 sentences to describe what came to mind. This snapshot explores the ways in which area residents conceptualize home. In short, residents organized their thinking into four broad categories: 1) psychological orientations/attachments, 2) geographical location/built environment, 3) social relationships, and 4) activities. Additionally, while most residents have positive associations with home, some do not feel “at home” and associate the word with negative experiences, highlighting the fluid nature of home in the context of high stress.