The Maryland Housing Conference brings together housing advocates, community development leaders, housing authorities, home builders, developers and legislators to discuss solutions and opportunities for housing development in Maryland. The conference is the largest and most comprehensive…

The American Dream is broken. The kind of social mobility that once inspired our country’s global reputation as the land of opportunity has become increasingly elusive in today’s climate of rising economic inequality. Now more than ever, where you start out in life strongly determines where you…

With the creation of the Institute for Educational Sciences over a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education signaled a major shift in emphasis, aiming to support research “on which to ground education practice and policy and share this information broadly. By identifying what works, what…

There is a growing recognition that the influence of residential mobility in shaping urban outcomes has been both seriously undervalued and badly understood. The Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center hosted an all-day symposium to begin to remedy these…

Dr. DeLuca, along with David Imbroscio (University of Louisville), Gregory Squires (George Washington University), J. Phillip Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Edward Goetz (University of Minnesota), participated in a panel discussion, entitled, "Beyond Mobility?…

Dr. DeLuca and Dr. Rosenblatt presented on "Housing, Education and Family Dynamics: How Poor Families Get Trapped in Low Performing Schools and What We Can Do About It" at the "Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools Mini Conference." Other notable presenters included: 

The reproduction of segregation and unequal neighborhood attainment has long been a social problem identified by scholars. Despite demonstrating high levels of residential mobility between intraurban neighborhoods, low-income black families are more likely than any other group to move between…