TSU HCDPR – Advancing Health Disparities & Policy Research

• Studies how housing programs like Housing Choice Vouchers helped families stay housed during disasters like Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 • Researches how heirs' property ownership puts Black homeowners at risk of losing their homes through property tax foreclosure • Tracks Black homeownership rates in the six largest Texas cities and looks at mortgage lending trends • Investigates why communities of color have fewer train noise quiet zones and suffer more from noise pollution • Studies how Houston's deed restrictions affect racial inequality in neighborhoods • Measures the digital divide in low-income Black communities and how it affects students' access to online learning • Examines non-traditional paths to homeownership and how they affect wealth building for families of color