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ScholarWorks@UMBC, a part of MD-SOAR (The Maryland Shared Open Access Repository), collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Community members can upload research products for rapid dissemination, global visibility and impact, and long-term preservation.
You can use ScholarWork@UMBC to share and preserve a wide range of research products, such as articles, papers, books, and technical reports. To get started, review our short guide to submitting, here.
All UMBC academic and administrative departments are eligible to have their own unique page set up in the repository for their materials. Departments that don't yet have their own page can contact call 410-455-3021 or e-mail scholarworks-group@umbc.edu to get a page set up.
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Increasing Affordable Housing in Iowa City
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Making affordable housing work in Johnson County
(Press Citizen, 2014-06-23) -
Opportunity knocks in Riverfront Crossings
(Press Citizen, 2014-12-01) -
Striking the right balance on housing
(Press Citizen, 2015-01-02) -
A Healthy Neighborhoods Approach in St. Louis
(Community Builders, 2014-03-05) -
Getting housing policies right this time
(Press Citizen, 2015-02-04) -
Common sense approach to affordable housing needed
(Press Citizen, 2015-06-23) -
Is Coralville balancing growth?
(Press Citizen, 2015-09-15) -
Iowa City's plan the right way forward
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Founding leader Sally Scott departs Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition
(Press Citizen, 2017-07-03) -
Affordable Housing: Building an effective coalition
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Overcoming Barriers to Homeownership in Baltimore City
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Leveling the Playing Field: School District Spending in Diverse Communities
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2016)The United States is the only industrialized nation that funds its public schools from local- and state-level taxes (Payne and Biddle, 1999). School resource disparities across districts reflect economic differences between ... -
Visualizing Residential Vacancy by Length of Vacancy
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2017)The United States Postal Service (USPS) collects counts of occupied and vacant residential and business addresses across the United States. The counts of vacant addresses are broken down by length of vacancy. This information ... -
Visualizing and Comparing Residential Permit Data Using Lollipop Plots
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2019)Residential permits are a common indicator of housing market activity. Residential permits indicate the demand for new homes, and by categorizing homes into different construction types, it is possible to understand what ... -
Applying Spaghetti and Meatballs to Proximity Analysis
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2020)The spaghetti and meatballs technique is a geoprocessing method used in a Geographic Information System (GIS) that counts the number of overlapping polygons that are of unequal size and shape. Often, this method is used ... -
HUD Crosswalk Files Facilitate Multi-State Census Tract COVID-19 Spatial Analysis
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2021)The coronavirus COVID-19 has infected millions of Americans. Datasets like the national county-level aggregation of COVID-19 case counts that Johns Hopkins University & Medicine assembled have been widely used, but few ... -
Measuring Neighborhood Opportunity with Opportunity Atlas and Child Opportunity Index 2.0 Data
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2021)Researchers have recently introduced two datasets measuring neighborhood opportunity: the Harvard University Opportunity Atlas data (Chetty et al., 2018b) and the Brandeis University Child Opportunity Index (COI) 2.0 data ... -
The Geography of Hispanic HUD-Assisted Households
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2021)In 2019, Hispanic households constituted 18.4 percent of all HUD-assisted households. The share of Hispanic households varied from state to state and by program area. Most states’ share of Hispanic HUD-assisted households ...
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