Anna Maria Santiago

Dr. Anna Maria Santiago's expertise includes:

- Short and long-term effects of housing and social welfare programs and policies as anti-poverty and social development strategies
- Spatial opportunity structures and geographies of opportunity
- Social capital formation and asset building in low-income Latino, African American and Vietnamese families
- Neighborhood effects on the health and well-being of low-income Latino and African American children
- Latino communities in the United States
- Low-income homeownership, foreclosures and predatory lending
- Effects of adverse child experiences on child outcomes
- Urban poverty and welfare dependency
- Latino residential segregation and housing discrimination in U.S. metropolitan areas