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
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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
The economically tumultuous last decade convinced many young people to keep living with their parents, but the reasons why differ starkly by race, concludes a new Johns Hopkins University-led study.
May 7, 2018 Tags: "live with parents", economy, Great Depression, household formation, housing, housing market, jobs, Johns Hopkins University, race, Sandra J. Newman
| Category: Business and Economics, Social Sciences
For the working poor, making housing decisions based on the old real estate adage “location, location, location” is complicated: Should a family choose cramped quarters in a safer but more expensive neighborhood, or would it be better to have a bigger apartment where rent is low but crime rates are high? When faced with difficulties finding affordable housing to accommodate their families, 124 mothers and grandmothers in Baltimore participating in a housing study often opted for a bigger apartment in a less desirable location because extra bedrooms would mean higher rental rates in safer neighborhoods in the city or surrounding counties, according to sociologists at The Johns Hopkins University and Loyola University Chicago.
January 9, 2013 Tags: Baltimore, housing, sociology, Stefanie DeLuca
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
