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…

Dr. DeLuca delivered a presentation titled “Housing Mobility and Access to Educational Opportunity” as a member of the 2012 Conference Advisory Committee for the Fifth National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility. This conference was organized by the Urban Institute and the Poverty and Race…

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?…