Place

“Place” refers to where people live, learn, and/or work, and/or the characteristics thereof. It is often used interchangeably with “geography” and “location” in the poverty studies arena. Common measures of place include urbanicity (urban, exurban, suburban, rural), neighborhood, census tract, and region.

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Service Deserts and Oases: Evaluating Service Availability for Individuals with Autism

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2021
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Mustafa Hussein on the Broader Effects of Local Living Wage Ordinances

  • Mustafa Hussein
  • Podcasts
  • 2021
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Addressing Racial Wealth Inequality

  • Fenaba Addo, Jacob Faber, and William Darity, Jr.
  • Webinar
  • 2021
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Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs

  • Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2021
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Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

  • Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2021
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Jacob Faber on How a New Deal Era Program Shaped America’s Racial Geography

  • Jacob Faber
  • Podcasts
  • 2021
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Impact of Government Programs Adopted During the New Deal on Residential Segregation Today

  • Jacob Faber, and edited by Anna Sucsy
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2021
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Crime-free housing ordinances and eviction

  • Kathryn Ramsey Mason
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2020
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Evictions and Housing Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Lavar Edmonds, April Hartman, and Marah Curtis
  • Webinar
  • 2020
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Implementing Virtual Human Services: Lessons from Telehealth

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2020