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State of Washington, D.C.'s Neighborhoods (Research Report)The District of Columbia's leaders have committed to capitalizing on the city's many assets and taking advantage of its recent growth and prosperity to tackle persistent challenges of inequality and exclusion. This report, prepared for the D.C. Office of Planning, seeks to aid the city's leaders and citizens through tracking and measuring major economic and social indicators. The report provides a baseline assessment of the current situation in the city and its neighborhoods in nine subject categories:
demographics; jobs and income; housing; education; health; family, youth, and seniors; safety and security; public investment; and environment.
Posted to Web: May 14, 2009 | Publication Date: September 30, 2008 |
Susan Popkin to Head the Urban Institute's New Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development (Press Release)Susan Popkin, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and an expert on public housing, has been named the director of the Institute’s new Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development.
Posted to Web: April 22, 2009 | Publication Date: April 22, 2009 |
Systems to Improve the Management of City-Owned Land in Baltimore (Research Report)Baltimore participated in a 2004 National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) pilot project to enhance local capacity to manage land markets through innovative use of parcel-level information. The city already had a program in place to acquire and re-market abandoned properties. The NNIP project focused on helping officials use the program-generated property information for more effective land management. New information systems were created to manage the complex business rules, to store the property data, and to provide staff with desktop access to information. An integrated disposition system reduced staff time, improved performance, and enhanced the city's service to its business partners.
Posted to Web: April 03, 2009 | Publication Date: February 01, 2007 |
District of Columbia Forum on Housing Options for Frequent Users of Jail and Shelter: Presentation of Urban Institute Data Analysis (Presentation)Presentation at Reentry Housing Forum, "Reducing the Revolving Door of Incarceration and Homelessness in the District of Columbia." Gives information on the number of people using jail only; shelter only; jail and shelter; jail, shelter, and Fire and Emergency Medical Services (FEMS); multiple spells in each, days in each, and a mental illness disability, for people using the D.C. Jail between October 1, 2004 and March 31, 2008, public emergency shelters between October 1, 2005 and September 30, 2007, and FEMS between January 1 and August 31, 2008. It also presents costs to the three systems providing data.
Posted to Web: March 30, 2009 | Publication Date: March 16, 2009 |
Widening Effects of the Corporation for Supportive Housing's System-Change Efforts in Los Angeles, 2005–2008 (Research Report)This, the fourth evaluation report for this project, describes extensive developments in Los Angeles during 2007-2008 and how they build on earlier work. The pipeline for permanent supportive housing is expanding, as are activities to improve the health of homeless people, smooth the transition from jail to community, and address the needs of the most vulnerable homeless people. Numerous coordinating and collaborating structures have begun or are expanding as part of these developments. Cautious optimism is in order compared to four years ago, but there is still a long way to go.
Posted to Web: March 30, 2009 | Publication Date: March 01, 2009 |