New research maps where legal financial obligations are concentrated – and finds they overlap with poverty, violence and racial inequality.
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Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
Property tax reform in Detroit could boost homeownership and attract new residents and businesses.
A sociologist’s analysis of a Michigan county reveals pockets of economic instability as rising housing costs continue to pressure residents.
A neighborhood coalition identified risk factors for youth violence and prevention strategies.
Managing fire risk is about more than regulations and rules. It’s also about caring for neighbors and taking steps on your own property and in your community to help keep neighbors safe.
Girls are at an even greater risk of early substance use than boys.
From snails to skunks, squirrels to cicadas, most of our neighbors are quiet and seldom interact with us, but they play important roles in the world.
New technologies are making it easier to find these urban heat islets, opening the door to new strategies for efficiently improving community health.
The Great Society’s Model Cities Program wasn’t perfect. But it offered a vision of what democratic, community-based planning could look like.
A trained social worker helps people without homes obtain the support they need and addresses other residents’ concerns about street safety.
A case study of a mainly Latino neighborhood in Houston shows that when residents value a neighborhood as it is, they can forestall large-scale redevelopment.
Du Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the Seventh Ward. The area is now home to some of Philadelphia’s ritziest neighborhoods.
A new study shows how front yards can serve as windows into the inner lives of their residents – and their feelings about their home, neighborhood and city.
Crime is spiking and you’re scared. Here are strategies to get past the fear and diminish the threat of crime in your community.
If parents prefer to associate with other parents, what does that mean for people who have decided against having kids?
Different views of gentrification drive divisions that keep school activists separated by race.
Manufactured housing – the preferred name for what were once called mobile homes – has changed dramatically in recent decades. Three planning experts call for giving it a new look.
In up-and-coming neighborhoods, old churches are often converted to apartments or offices. But what about the vacant or underused churches in areas that aren’t attractive to developers?
American cities are getting more diverse, but neighbors of different races don’t necessarily socialize with each other. A sociologist in North Carolina discovered one surprising reason why.
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Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science, University of Washington
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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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PhD Candidate, Environmental, Urban & Applied Microeconomics, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Denver
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Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
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Associate Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
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Professor of Community Development, Michigan State University