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.
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
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
In a report published in the new issue of the journal Urban Studies, Johns Hopkins University sociologist Meredith Greif found that while homeownership can spark feelings of pride in people of any race, it’s more meaningful for minorities. But, because blacks and Latinos buy more homes in disadvantaged communities and are less likely to able to move, they ultimately tend to feel dissatisfied with their community — and potentially their purchase.
April 9, 2014 Tags: homeownership, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Meredith Greif, sociology
| Category: Social Sciences
Live Near Your Work, a program that helps Johns Hopkins Institutions employees buy homes in select Baltimore neighborhoods near Johns Hopkins campuses, has announced several enhancements that will provide larger base grants to eligible homebuyers and expanded opportunities to receive home-buying aid.
April 12, 2011 Tags: employee benefits, employee grants, home buying, homeownership, Live Near York Work, real estate
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Since Johns Hopkins launched a revamped and incentive-laden program aimed at distributing $5 million to help employees buy homes in select Baltimore City communities, 108 employees have been awarded $635,500 in grants, and more are expected to apply as the weather warms and the home-buying season kicks into high gear.
April 1, 2010 Tags: Baltimore City, East Baltimore Development, grants, homebuying, homeownership, incentives, Johns Hopkins, Live Near Your Work, Rouse Company, Rouse Company Foundation
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
