Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Unforeseen circumstances force low-income families to quickly move from one home to the next, a process that helps to perpetuate racial and economic segregation in the United States, research shows.
October 8, 2020 Tags: affordable housing, Department of Sociology, housing, poverty, public housing, sociology
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Living in subsidized housing seems to give a boost to children with high standardized test scores and few behavior problems, but it has the opposite effect on students who score poorly and have behavioral issues, a new study finds.
November 29, 2016 Tags: affordable housing, assisted housing, low-income families, Sandra J. Newman, standardized test scores, Subsidized housing
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Public Health, Public policy, Social Sciences
It’s long been accepted – with little science to back it up – that people should spend roughly a third of their income on housing. It turns out, that’s about how much a low-income family should spend to optimize their children’s brainpower.
June 9, 2014 Tags: affordable housing, Johns Hopkins University, Sandra J. Newman, sociology
| Category: Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries are pleased to announce completion of the processing of the Roland Park Company records.
May 5, 2014 Tags: affordable housing, American cities, architecture, historians, homeownership, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, planning, records, Roland Park Company, suburbs, urban
| Category: Uncategorized
