Each participant received an interview packet at the beginning of the NYCHVS interview, which included materials referenced during the interview as well as close out materials to thank the respondent.

Flash Cards

These cards were used by field representatives during interviews in order for respondents to answer questions.

Flash Cards Video

This video demonstrates how field representatives used flash cards in order for respondents to answer NYCHVS questions.

Community Resource Guide

These guides were available for respondents to find accessible community resources.

Thank You Letters (All Languages)

Letters were provided to all respondents translated in all seven languages.

Other Field Materials

SIMY Card

Field representatives left a “Sorry I Missed You” card with a note to respondents who were unavailable.

Training Manual

All field representatives received this training manual on how to use and implement all respondent-facing materials.

The Center for Research on HOME

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About Us

The mission of the Center for Research on Housing Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity (HOME) is to create sound, relevant research evidence on housing as both a source of disparities and a means for achieving greater equity for all New Yorkers.

We work to translate our findings into practice. All our research is done by the City of New York, for the City of New York. We are integrated into the country’s largest municipal housing agency. This gives us a unique opportunity to understand the current and future needs of decision-makers and promote the integration of research evidence within the policymaking process to better serve all New Yorkers.

What We Do

The Center for Research on HOME conducts original research on policy-relevant issues related to the residential environment and well-being of New York City residents. We sponsor independent initiatives and partner with academics and applied researchers. We carry out research projects through an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to help inform more coordinated policy.

Researchers at the Center are deeply involved in the process of research, from design through dissemination. We design studies to focus on issues relevant for New York City. We conduct fieldwork to understand the stories our data represent. We advocate for the responsible and effective use of data to inform policy. We share our findings with a wide range of audiences to continuously engage and learn.

Our Approach

We take our responsibilities seriously and incorporate our values into all our work :

Public policies will be informed by high-quality, reliable research;
Studies should respect for those being researched, including how they are treated during data collection and how their data are used;
Researchers should actively support inclusion of all participants, regardless of language spoken, disability, or any other potential barriers to engagement; and
Access to high-quality, representative data is necessary but insufficient to ensure responsible and effective use to inform decision-making.

The Team

Our team includes quantitative and qualitative researchers who have expertise in New York City’s unique environment and policy context as well as affiliates with areas of specialization ranging from program implementation and epidemiology to strategic communications and language justice.

Lyz Gaumer is the founding Director of the Center for Research on HOME and serves as the Chief Research Officer for HPD. She brings 20 years of experience in survey research, working on a range of topics from the effects of 9/11 on families with young children who lived near ground zero to her more recent leadership on the New York City Housing and Neighborhood Study. She has designed and implemented multiple large-scale experimental and quasi-experimental studies to evaluate public policies and regularly presents to decision-makers and practitioners on how the team’s research findings can improve the lived experience of New Yorkers. She has received grants to support her research from the MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and US Department of Housing and Urban Development, among others. Lyz has served as the Principal Investigator of the NYCHVS since 2014. Her primary areas of expertise are rent regulation, social networks and neighboring behavior, and neighborhood effects. She serves as a mentor for the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN). Lyz is a grateful beneficiary of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. Lyz has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.

Caitlin Waickman is the Deputy Director of the Center for Research on HOME and has been on the team for almost 10 years. Her research experience includes primary data collection in English and Spanish as well as questionnaire design, testing, and translation. She led the advance translation and language access efforts of the 2021 NYCHA redesign. She has presented research findings to a variety of audiences, including developing a set of briefs on the City’s rent regulated housing stock and sharing research findings at a variety of academic conferences and to policymakers in national and international contexts. Her areas of interest include rent regulation, residential mobility, and disability and language access. Caitlin has an MA in Urban Studies from Fordham University. Caitlin is a PhD student in Sociology at CUNY, the Graduate Center in New York City.

Danny Goldstein is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Research on HOME and has been on the team for over 10 years. He has extensive experience across all phases of the research lifecycle—from managing the field effort for the New York City Housing and Neighborhood Study to implementing and overseeing privacy and data security protocols to working with large datasets of objective health measures. He has an interest in collecting and analyzing survey paradata about the process by which the data were collected to understand and improve data collection efforts. He has presented widely on survey design and methodology, including sharing work in an international context. Danny has extensive experience working with administrative data and integrating such records into survey operations in a conceptually coherent way, including leveraging New York City’s wide ranging administrative data in combination with Title 13 Census data. Danny studied English Literature at the City College of New York.

Pablo Sanchez is a Research Implementation Coordinator at the Center for Research on HOME. He has over 15 years of extensive data collection experience across multiple research projects in New York, Texas, and the Dominican Republic. His expertise includes extensive tracking methods on hard-to-reach individuals, management of field staff in data collection efforts and gathering critical and sensitive bio markers. His areas of interest are collecting and analyzing survey data in efforts towards improving the respondents experience process all while getting a rich and unbiased data sample. Pablo studied Liberal Arts with a concentration on Human Services at the City College of New York.

Maggie Phan is the Learning and Development Coordinator of the Center for Research on HOME. She has vast research experience in a variety of topics including the relationship between food and leisure, STEM program evaluation, dietary patterns and food behaviors among immigrants and ethnic minorities, and visitors’ usage of parks and recreation centers. She supervises the HOME Scholars Program and leads student researchers on their projects at HPD. Her areas of interest include availability and safety of parks and greenspace in urban areas, accessibility of healthy food options in low-income neighborhoods, and how housing conditions contribute to social determinants of health. She completed her BA in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Eunbyeor Sophie Yang is a Fair Housing Analyst at the Center for Research on HOME. She brings over 10 years of quantitative and qualitative research experience across multiple research projects with various participants, such as children, youth, and families. Her research experience includes survey design, data collection, cleaning, coding, and analysis in both Korean and English. She is interested in the health of vulnerable populations, positive survey experience from research participants, and finding stories within data utilizing her backgrounds in engineering and social work. Sophie has MSW from Ewha Women’s University and a PhD in Social Work from Portland State University.

Sophia Abbasi is the Deputy Director of Public Information and Engagement at the Center for Research on HOME (Housing Opportunity, Mobility, Equity). Sophia has over 10 years of experience in communications and marketing for nonprofits, with additional expertise in embedding racial equity into program design and communicating messages and services to multiple audiences. Her past experience has been in local political campaigns, nonprofit communications, digital marketing, diversity and inclusion, and program management. Sophia holds a BA in Communications and Journalism and an MA in Strategic Communications from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY).

Edward Castro is the Project Coordinator of Data Collection and Surveys at the Center for Research on HOME. He has over 5 years of data collection experience of projects in New York. His expertise includes outreach methods on hard-to-reach individuals, management and training of field staff in data collection efforts, and paradata analysis. His areas of interest are survey and data collection, rent regulation, disability, and public housing. Edward has a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Masters of Arts in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College./p>

Center Affiliates

Allison Corbett is a Spanish-English interpreter, oral historian, and language justice advocate. Over the last ten years, she has worked in both large institutions and grassroots community settings to advance equitable cross-language communication and listening and has facilitated workshops on language justice for a diverse set of audiences, including community organizers, oral historians, educators, literary professionals, city employees and volunteer collectives. Allison founded the Language of Justice Project, a bilingual multimedia oral history project that celebrates and recognizes the work of people who create and maintain multilingual spaces in community organizing and social movement-building. She became the Language Access Manager for the NYCHVS after serving on the language access team at the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Allison has been the co-director of Colibrí Academy for HIV and Language Justice, an in-depth language justice capacity-building and training program for organizations that do HIV/AIDS work, since its inception. Allison also partners with Fernanda Espinosa under the collaboration Decentering Dominance to provide consulting and create projects at the intersection of language justice, research, and oral history. Allison has her MA in Oral History from Columbia University.

Yenny Fernández has over 15 years of experience across all phases of the research process, including qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, field management, field staff training development and facilitation, as well as English-Spanish translation and translation project management. She currently works as a Field Interviewer and Translator at the Center for Research on HOME. Her areas of interest include research protocol implementation, data collection and reporting, and language access. Yenny has an MS in Applied Social Research from Hunter College.

Ahuva Jacobowitz is a longtime team member and an affiliate at the Center for Research on HOME. With more than 15 years of research experience, she has had her hand in every stage of the research process—from concept creation and grant submission to data analysis and dissemination, and everything in between. Her primary areas of interest are at the intersection of housing and health, understanding the impact that housing and the built environment have on downstream health outcomes. Ahuva is a PhD candidate in epidemiology and has an MA in quantitative methods from Columbia University.

Kelly Anne Johnstone is pleased to be an Affiliate with the Research Center for HOME. With more than 10 years of affordable and supportive housing experience, Kelly brings a policy and operations perspective to her work with the HOME team. She has contributed to projects such as the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey and research evaluating the effectiveness of mobility counseling for rental voucher holders. Kelly views her work with a focus on inclusion and accessibility, effective program design, and the application of rigorous research to smart policy making. Kelly holds a master’s degree in urban policy from The New School.

Harry Sun is a Research Assistant at the Center for Research on HOME. He focuses on software programming to facilitate paradata collection through dashboards and fieldwork tools. He works primarily on the Community Choice Demonstration, a HUD-sponsored study aiming to understand the impacts of various neighborhoods and services on households and children. His areas of interest are data collection, data analysis, and applied research. Harry is currently working on a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Data Science at Fordham University.

Our Work

Essential every day: The lives of NYC's essential workforce during COVID-19

The Center for Research on HOME published Essential every day: The lives of NYC's essential workforce during COVID-19 in recognition of the three-year anniversary of New York State on PAUSE. Using data from the COVID-19 questions added to the 2021 NYCHVS, the report includes information on who essential workers are, where they live, and how they and their families fared during the pandemic.

New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS)

The New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS) is a citywide, representative survey of New York City’s housing stock and population that is fielded about every three years by the US Census Bureau on behalf of the City of New York. The survey has been conducted since 1965, making it the longest running housing survey in the country.

Researchers at the Center use data from the NYCHVS to support various policymaking and program areas at HPD and beyond. The Center for Research on HOME is currently working on a set of analyses related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about the NYCHVS here:

The Impacts of COVID-19 in New York City: Measuring Inequalities in the Wake of the Pandemic

The 2021 NYCHVS was the 18th cycle of the survey and collected data from February 2021 through July 2021—approximately one year after the onset of the pandemic in the US. To capture information about the effects of the pandemic, the research team added a topical module on COVID-19. The module collected data on residential and household changes, employment, remote learning, comorbidities, and financial instability, among others.

It is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected racial/ethnic minorities and low-wage workers, amplifying existing disparities, especially in places that experienced the largest outbreaks, like New York City. The data collected in the COVID-19 module allow the Center for Research on HOME and its applied partners at other NYC agencies to examine disparities by race/ethnicity, nativity, income, and family composition, including the number and age of children and presence of older adults. These data also provide an opportunity to examine whether there are disparities among other groups, such as those with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and factors that help to explain observed differences.

This information is critical for tracking the consequences for vulnerable populations, refining public assistance programs, and fostering resilience in the face of future disasters and public health emergencies in New York City and beyond.

Multilingual Communities Require Multilingual Research

Multilingual Communities Require Multilingual Research is a webinar series hosted by the Center for Research on HOME on the processes and lessons learned in pursuit of language justice for the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS). The first webinar in this series was a panel discussion of contributors to the multilingual redesign of the NYCHVS, the lessons learned in the process, and explore ways in which a language justice approach can strengthen the design of other surveys and the use of data.

The New York City Housing and Neighborhood Study (NYCHANS)

Despite decades of investment in affordable housing nationally, little is known about the impact of these programs on the individuals and families served.

These housing programs generally serve a low-income working population that may be at greater risk because they do not qualify for most subsidies, yet frequently struggle to make ends meet, particularly in high cost housing markets. Receipt of subsidized housing may help to improve the health and well-being of these households through multiple pathways, including lower housing costs that enable a family to invest scarce resources, improved housing quality that reduces exposure to substandard conditions that may impair physical health, and improved access to resource-rich neighborhoods that provide opportunities for social engagement and higher quality local institutions and amenities. This study examines how housing contributes to the physical and mental health of these low-income individuals.

The New York City Housing and Neighborhood Study is a randomized control trial that evaluates the impact of moving to newly-constructed affordable housing on the well-being of near-poor households in New York City. 2,600 households were randomly assigned to either receive an affordable housing unit at one of thirteen developments located in five neighborhoods (n=~1,000) or remain in private market housing without assistance (n=~1,600). In-person follow-up interviews were conducted four to seven years after intervention to assess differences in housing and neighborhood quality, financial stability, neighborhood safety, social context, physical and mental health, and health behaviors.

The study is a collaboration of HPD and Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Gaumer (HPD) and Brooks-Gunn (Teachers College, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University) serve as Co-Principal Investigators on the study.

Upcoming Projects

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mobility Counseling for Homeless and Formerly Homeless: Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) in New York City
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Choice Demonstration: Research Implementation on behalf of HPD

Publications and Presentations

We connect with policymakers, the broader research community, and the public through peer-review publications, research briefs, presentations, and convenings with key stakeholders in order to better inform policy decisions that improve the overall quality of life and well-being of NYC residents.

How Many (Bed)Rooms? Hard to Detect Question Order Effects in Factual Questions
Goldstein, D. and Gaumer, E.
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
May 12, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Categories: Conference Presentation, Data Collection Methods, NYCHVS

Multilingual Communities Require Multilingual Surveys: A Language Justice-Informed Approach to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey
Waickman, C. and Corbett, A.
Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meetings 2022 Survey Research Methods Section
Categories: Publication, Data Collection Methods, NYCHVS

Making Lotteries Legible: Designing Natural Experiments
Goldstein, D. and Gaumer, E.
Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meetings 2022 Survey Research Methods Section
Categories: Publication, Survey Methods, HANS

Rent Regulation in NYC
Rent Stabilization webinar with New York City, Barcelona, and Paris
April 26, 2022
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/misc/nyc-barcelona-rent-stabilization-webinar-video.mp4
Categories: Policy Convening, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Advance Translation at a Large Survey Organization: Navigating the Potential Obstacles
Comparative Survey Design & Implementation (CSDI) 2021 Virtual Workshop
March 22-April 9, 2021 (Co-authored)
Categories: Conference Presentation, Language Access and Equity, Data Collection Methods, NYCHVS

Integrating Objective Health Measures: Using a Consumer Actigraphy Wristband to Supplement a Survey of Caregivers and Teens
Gaumer, E., Goldstein, D., Jerome, J.B.R., Brooks-Gunn, J. (2019).
Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2019 Survey Research Methods Section
http://www.asasrms.org/Proceedings/y2019/files/1199571.pdf
Categories: Publication, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Choreographing “the Best Interview Ever”: Developing and Implementing a Multimodal Family Interview
Waickman, C., Goldstein, D., Powell, L., Gaumer, E. (2019).
Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2019 Survey Research Methods Section
http://www.asasrms.org/Proceedings/y2019/files/1199484.pdf
Categories: Publication, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Learning the Lessons of History: Getting the Most from a Field Staff-Powered Contact History Instrument
Jerome, J.B.R., Goldstein, D. (2019).
Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2019 Survey Research Methods Section
http://www.asasrms.org/Proceedings/y2019/files/1199577.pdf
Categories: Publication, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Rent Regulation in New York City
Sharing Cities Encounter 2019
November 2019, Barcelona, Spain
Categories: Policy Convening, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Green Affordable Housing and Residents’ Physical Activity Levels
National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) Member Meeting
September 2019, New York, NY
https://www.nccor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NCCOR-Sept.-2019-Member-Meeting-Summary.pdf
Video: https://youtu.be/mH2Qfj2Iry0?list=PL1H-SjN7Ndh1x-akmu50J53zOtgDq-dyD&t=6452
Categories: Conference Presentation, Health and Housing, Affordable Housing, HANS

The (Rent) Burden of Living in NYC: Housing Programs and Evictions
American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting
August 2019, New York, NY
https://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2019/regional-spotlight-sessions
Categories: Conference Presentation, Affordable Housing, Housing Instability, HANS

Data Expo 2019- New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey Data Challenge
Joint Statistical Meetings- Sponsored by the American Statistical Association
July 2019, Denver, CO
https://community.amstat.org/governmentstatisticssection/awards/dataexpo
Categories: Student Engagement, NYCHVS

Should we change how we measure change? Longitudinal versus serial cross-sectional data from a NYC housing survey
Measurement Error in Longitudinal Data Workshop
June 21, 2019, Manchester, UK
https://meldw.alexcernat.com/pdfs/DGoldstein.pdf
Categories: Workshop, Survey Methods, NYCHVS

Capturing Social Networks of Adults and Teens: Expanding a Novel Design from New York City
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
May 19, 2019, Toronto, ON
https://aapor.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/10/sessiongallery/138/application/3119
Categories: Conference Presentation, Social Networks, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Public Hearing on Rent-Regulated Housing
New York State Assembly
May 2, 2019, New York, NY
https://nystateassembly.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=8&clip_id=5099
Categories: Invited Testimony, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

NYC Rent-Regulation: 75-years
American Planning Association (APA) National Planning Conference
April 13, 2019, San Francisco, CA
https://learn.planning.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=573
Categories: Conference Presentation, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Green Affordable Housing and Residents’ Physical Activity Levels
Active Living Research Conference
February 19, 2019, Charleston, SC
https://activelivingresearch.org/monday-february-18-2019-agenda
Categories: Conference Presentation, Health and Housing, Affordable Housing, HANS

Quality and Accessibility of Rent Stabilized Units
Waickman, C., Jerome, J.B.R., Place, R. (2018)
HPD Rent Regulation Memos
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/services/rent-regulation-memo-1.pdf
Categories: Publication, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Affordability of Rent Stabilized Units
Waickman, C., Jerome, J.B.R., Place, R. (2018)
HPD Rent Regulation Memos
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/services/rent-regulation-memo-1.pdf
Categories: Publication, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Sociodemographics of Rent Stabilized Tenants
Waickman, C., Jerome, J.B.R., Place, R. (2018)
HPD Rent Regulation Memos
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/services/rent-regulation-memo-1.pdf
Categories: Publication, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

The Impact of Affordable Housing on the Well-being of Low-income Children and Caregivers: First Findings from an Experimental Study in New York City
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (AAPAM) Fall Research Conference
November 10, 2018, Washington, DC
https://appam.confex.com/appam/2018/webprogram/Paper27138.html
Categories: Conference Presentation, Affordable Housing, Health and Housing, HANS

The State of Rent Stabilization in New York City
NYU Furman Center Policy Breakfast
October 3, 2018, New York, NY
https://furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry/policy-breakfast-on-the-state-of-rent-stabilization-in-new-york-city
Categories: Policy Convening, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey
An Introduction to Public Data at The Brown Institute, Columbia University
September 6, 2018, New York, NY
https://brown.columbia.edu/event/an-introduction-to-public-data/
Categories: Student Engagement, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Showing Off So They Show Up: Getting the Attention of
Hard-to-Reach Respondents
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
May 17, 2018, Denver, CO
http://app.core-apps.com/aapor_2018/abstract/dcc8ece5-2018-41dc-bde4-d053c02b03f4
Slides: https://www.aapor.org
Categories: Conference Presentation, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Policy Talk: The Intersection of Health & Housing
New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH) Annual NYC Conference
May 16, 2018, New York, NY
Categories: Conference Presentation, Health and Housing, HANS

Selected Initial Findings of the 2017 Housing and Vacancy Survey
NYC Rent Guidelines Board
April 5, 2018, New York, NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-qVj7JhbQg
Categories: Invited Testimony, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Selected Initial Findings: The 2017 Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS)
City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings
March 19, 2018, New York, NY
https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=596471&GUID=F386E5CC-6259-4F20-888D-8532ACA81551
Categories: Invited Testimony, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Improving Access to Affordable Housing Opportunities
DCA’s Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) and HPD (2017).
City of New York
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dca/downloads/pdf/partners/Research-ImprovingAccesstoAffordableHousingOpportunities.pdf
Categories: Publication, Affordable Housing

Adult Impacts of Affordable Housing on Financial Stability and Health
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (AAPAM) Fall Research Conference
November 3, 2016, Washington, DC
https://appam.confex.com/appam/2016/webprogram/Paper17208.html
Categories: Conference Presentation, Affordable Housing, Health and Housing, HANS

Concentrated Foreclosure Activity and Distressed Properties in New York City
Perkins, K.L., Lear, M.J., Gaumer, E. (2016)
Urban Affairs Review
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087416650287
Categories: Publication, Neighborhood Effects, Housing Instability

New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Testimony
NYC Rent Guidelines Board
May 26, 2016, New York, NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlMCuVcdJzw&list=PLBaLTCGD1I9x5Oq4IWrYgUUvwrc3HSgf5&index=13
Categories: Invited Testimony, Rent Stabilization, NYCHVS

Capturing Social Network Data: A Novel Design from New York City
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
May 15, 2016, Austin, TX
https://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Main/media/publications/AAPOR-16-FP_FNL_2.pdf pg. 136
Categories: Conference Presentation, Data Collection Methods, Survey Methods, Social Networks, HANS

Do Faster Respondents Give Better Answers? Analyzing Response Time in Various Question Scales
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
May 15, 2016, Austin, TX
https://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Main/media/publications/AAPOR-16-FP_FNL_2.pdf pg. 137
Categories: Conference Presentation, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Lessons Learned: Face-to-Face Data Collection with Low-Income and Middle Class Population in New York City
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference
May 13, 2016, Austin, TX
https://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Main/media/publications/AAPOR-16-FP_FNL_2.pdf pg. 106
Categories: Conference Presentation, Data Collection Methods, HANS

Understanding Neighborhood Effects: An Analysis of Self-Defined Neighborhoods in New York City
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
April 1, 2016, San Francisco, CA
http://app.core-apps.com/aagam2016/abstract/193aa96b70782879f8e5bb310bd3eddc
Categories: Conference Presentation, Neighborhood Effects, HANS

Changing Household Membership as Residential Mobility
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
April 1, 2016, San Francisco, CA
http://app.core-apps.com/aagam2016/abstract/4b2083cf4d1c7ac115c8f430411f4300
Categories: Conference Presentation, Housing Instability, HANS

Is Seeing Really Believing? An Analysis of Objective Crime, Perceived Disorder and Safety and the Association with Mental Distress
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
March 30, 2016, San Francisco, CA
http://app.core-apps.com/aagam2016/abstract/193aa96b70782879f8e5bb310bd04a25
Categories: Conference Presentation, Neighborhood Effects, Health and Housing, Survey Methods, HANS

Building Ties: The Social Networks of Affordable-Housing Residents
Gaumer, E., Jacobowitz, A. (2014).
Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol16num3/article2.html
Categories: Publication, Affordable Housing, Social Networks, HANS

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The Center for Research on HOME welcomes researchers at all career stages to engage in our work and help us to achieve our mission.

Study With US

The Center for Research on HOME accepts applications for interns, graduate research assistants, and research fellows on a rolling basis throughout the year. Depending on the level experience and academic interest, we may pair qualified candidates with ongoing projects or develop independent projects that meet the objectives on the Center and advance the learning and professional opportunities for the junior researcher.

HOME Scholars Summer 2023

About the Center for Research on HOME Scholars Program

The HPD Center for Research on HOME (Housing Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity) is excited to offer the HOME Scholars Program to provide energetic and motivated undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to obtain experience in applied research within a large government housing agency. Our research program offers students the opportunity to work closely with the HPD research team on better understanding how the city helps low-income families in NYC find and maintain safe and affordable housing. The program also provides training to help students in their professional development as social scientists, with particular emphasis on skills related to primary data collection, fieldwork, survey design and administration, statistical analysis, data dissemination, and translation of findings into practice.

Why do research at HPD

As the largest municipal housing agency in the U.S., HPD strives to advocate for the quality and affordability in NYC’s housing, and diversity and strength in NYC’s neighborhoods. The findings from research conducted at HPD directly helps residents of NYC through policies developed to promote resident health and safety along with affordable housing. The creation, maintenance, and expansion of opportunities for New Yorkers— including housing voucher holders, formerly homeless households, people with disabilities, and populations with unmet needs—to attain the economic and social benefits of housing affordability.

How the HOME Scholars Programs works

HOME Scholars will conduct and contribute to original research to tackle the long-standing and ongoing issues on housing that residents of NYC face, including but not limited to, issues pertaining to disparities in residential environment, housing equity, building quality and maintenance, neighborhood amenities, access to high-performing schools, health and well-being, neighborhood safety, and availability of affordable and healthy foods. The HPD research team partners with academics, applied researchers, stakeholders, and federal agencies to employ an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to inform policy and guide policymakers and housing programs. Furthermore, Scholars will obtain first-hand experience on the research team’s projects of which are meticulously overseen by the research team in every phase from beginning to end. Scholars will be matched with research projects and team members depending on their level of experience and academic interests.

Interdisciplinary and collaborative research approach

The HPD research team welcomes researchers from a variety of backgrounds and fields, such as urban planning, sociology, geography, data science, language justice, social work, public health, public policy, and developmental psychology. Mixed methods research is applied in the execution of elegantly-designed projects to ensure findings that are rigorous, relevant, representative, high in quality, and effective in informing policy. The research team envisions a group of highly-motivated and inquisitive Scholars of diverse training to contribute to the study of critical issues like housing disparities, residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and socioeconomic inequality.

Current projects at the Center for Research on HOME

Housing Choice Voucher Community Choice Demonstration (CCD) with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

This is a study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide families with children better access to low-poverty neighborhoods with high-performing schools and other strong community resources. Our past students were heavily engaged with telephone recruitment of research participants, survey administration, research interviews with housing voucher holders, and research team support.

NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS)

This is a citywide representative survey of New York City’s housing stock and population that is fielded about every three years (including 2023) by the U.S. Census Bureau on behalf of the City of New York. Students working on this project would contribute to the analysis of the current state of NYC housing and population as well the development of future cycles of the survey.

Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) Program in NYC

The EHV Program assists thousand of residents of NYC find housing by subsidizing a portion of rent based on the household’s income. These residents include those who are experiencing homelessness, those at risk of homelessness, and victims of domestic violence. Students involved in this project would contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of mobility counseling for individuals in the EHV Program.

What to expect as an HPD HOME Scholar

The duration of time that an HPD HOME Scholar works is flexible and expected to be 8 to 12 weeks, and 20 to 30 hours per week. For the summer of 2023, Scholars are expected to begin their program in early June. Weekly schedules are flexible and should be negotiated at the start of the program. Each scholar will be matched with an ongoing project based on the student’s research interests, skills, and experience. Each scholar will also have regular one-on-one meetings with the HPD research team’s Learning and Development Coordinator and staff members with expertise on the scholar’s project.

How to apply

To apply to be an HPD HOME Scholar, please e-mail your most recent resume along with a cover letter to the Learning and Development Coordinator, Maggie Phan (phanma@hpd.nyc.gov). The priority deadline is Monday, March 20th, however, applicants who submit their documents afterwards will be considered on a rolling basis. Positions are highly competitive and interested students are encouraged to apply by the priority deadline. Among applicants who submit their documents by the priority deadline, those selected for an interview will be contacted by March 31st.

Partner With Us

The Center for Research on HOME, on behalf of HPD, will partner with external entities to conduct relevant research and to ensure that HPD’s data and resources are used responsibly and effectively to advance housing policy and programs.

The Center and HPD are particularly interested in proposals related to housing disparities, residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and socioeconomic inequality. All research activities should substantially contribute to existing knowledge and inform policy and practice in New York City.

Contact Us

Please email us at HOME@hpd.nyc.gov