Opportunity Starts at Home, a campaign which advocates for solutions to homelessness and housing instability, interviewed PIRL director Stefanie DeLuca on the qualitative research behind the recently introduced Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act.

The 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University has announced its 2021 grantees of the award for doctoral research on urban issues.  PIRL doctoral student Kiara Nerenberg was among those awarded the grant to help fund her research activities in support of her dissertation.  Kiara's dissertation focuses on the informal school-choice market and out-of-zone enrollments among K-12 students in Baltimore City, seeking to understand the causes and consequences of out-of-zone enrollment.

Stefanie DeLuca cited by Bloomberg CityLab on the need for landlord outreach in light of Biden's proposal to expand Section 8.

PIRL Director Stefanie DeLuca was cited in an article in The Atlantic focusing on rental assistance.  Discussing the idea of delivering rental assistance as cash payments rather than vouchers, she said that, "[t]he research on the Earned Income Tax Credit points to the idea that recipients experienced a sense of agency and dignity when they received a lump sum of money, and I suspect that renters being able to present themselves to landlords as paying like any other potential tenant could feel quite empowering."

Stefanie DeLuca and Nicholas Papageorge publish a blog on the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center on the Unequal Costs of Social Distancing. 

The CMTO team's research was featured as a motivating factor for a major bipartisan sponsored housing bill.

Joseph Boselovic and Jasmine Sausedo, Sociology doctoral students at JHU, write about the power of qualitative research methods to understand the lived experiences of COVID-19 among America's most vulnerable and resilient families.

Stefanie DeLuca and Julia Burdick-Will cited in LA School Report on pandemic-induced school migration patterns.

PIRL holds a Zoom training session to prepare over 20 students and staff for multiple research projects starting in January 2021. 

Julia Burdick-Will and Kiara Nerenberg's recent study on school violence and transfer rates receives press coverage by the American Educational Research Association, District Administration, and K-12 Dive.