PIRL researchers released a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, drawing on survey data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and qualitative interviews with young adults in high-poverty neighborhoods in Baltimore.

In their compelling op-ed published by the Baltimore Sun, Stefanie DeLuca and Meredith Greif discuss the urgent need to increase rental assistance for both tenants and landlords in the wake of COVID-19 and Biden's extended eviction moratorium.

Stefanie DeLuca will be one of the advisors to Abt Associates—a global leader in research, evaluation and program implementation—during its evaluation of HUD's $50 million mobility demonstration. The demonstration intends to "evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to help families with federal housing vouchers access such neighborhoods."

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PIRL associate director Nicholas Papageorge was awarded a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences for a new study on how teachers learn racial competency and how they become more effective over time for all of their students.  Prof. Papageorge will work in collaboration with Seth Gershenson (American University), Constance Lindsay (University of North Carolina), and PIRL director Stefanie DeLuca to conduct both quantitative and qualitative phases for the study.

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.