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Once-formidable disparities between black and white families living in subsidized housing have largely vanished, and black and white children who grew up in such housing fared similarly in school, jobs and earnings, finds a new Johns Hopkins University study. However, one troubling difference remains between black and white families in assisted housing — neighborhood quality. Black families getting subsidized housing are about nine time more likely than whites to live in segregated, impoverished neighborhoods, the study found.
May 8, 2017 Tags: assisted housing, C. Scott Holupka, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, public housing, race, Sandra J. Newman, Subsidized housing
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
In a study recently published in the journal Real Estate Economics, public policy professor Sandra J. Newman and researcher C. Scott Holupka found that race was a key determinate of which low and moderate-income people who bought first homes during the decade made money. During the Great Recession, white homebuyers lost money but black ones lost considerably more. Even during the boom years, when white buyers increased their wealth by 50 percent, black buyers lost 47 percent of their wealth.
October 7, 2015 Tags: C. Scott Holupka, Great Recession, homeownership, Housing boom, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, race, real estate, Sandra J. Newman
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
