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Wiemers Talks to the New York Times About Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market

May 2, 2022

Emily Wiemers, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, was quoted in the New York Times article "The Extraordinary Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market."

See related: Education , Inflation , Income , Spending , Housing

Grant Funds Syracuse Housing Research

December 17, 2021
Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology at the Maxwell School, is part of a three-member team that has received a $350,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate how building local power among tenants can enhance community health and well-being.

See related: Housing , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security , Inequalities , Grant Awards , State and Local

Public Housing Violence Research Earns Top Honor

October 20, 2021
Madeleine ‘Maddy’ Hamlin, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in geography at the Maxwell School, was one of 8 doctoral students to have been named an H.F. Guggenheim Emerging Scholar. The $25,000 award supports and recognizes promising graduate-student researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation.

See related: Urban & Regional Studies , Student Experiences , Awards & Honors , Housing , Crime and Violence

Purser Discusses Rent Relief, Eviction Moratorium

October 4, 2021
Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology, appeared on WCNY's most recent episode of CONNECT NY, "The State of Homeownership."

See related: Inequalities , Population and Place , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security , Housing

Rosenthal paper on effects of mortgage payment burden on underwater homeowners published in REE

August 28, 2021

See related: Housing , Urban & Regional Studies

Engelhardt quoted in HousingWire article on pandemic, housing payments

August 6, 2021

See related: COVID-19 , Public Economics , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security , Housing

Han, Schwartz paper on fast food proximity and childhood obesity published in RSUE

August 5, 2021

See related: Parenting and Family , Nutrition and Nutrition Programs , Obesity , Housing

Yinger paper on access to jobs published in Journal of Housing Economics

August 5, 2021

See related: Housing , Social Policy (Aging, Education, Health, Welfare)

Student Spotlight: Compassion for Community

July 21, 2021
Senior scholar Lia Chabot ’21 B.S. (Econ/CCE) combines academic interests with real-world experiences and activism in pursuing goals.

See related: Student Experiences , Awards & Honors , Housing , Environment & Society

Yinger quoted in Daily Beast article on diverse communities

April 5, 2021
According to U.S. Census data, there is a 30 percentage-point gap in homeownership between Blacks and whites—larger than it was in the 1960s, prior to when the Fair Housing Act was passed.

See related: Housing , Racial Inequality , Social Inequalities , Wage Inequality , Population Studies , Race & Ethnicity

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