UNC Greensboro

Market Segmentation Study

City of High Point The Center for Housing and Community Studies is working with the City of High Point on a five-month study that will inform targeted redevelopment in the City Core. The primary focus of the Market Segmentation Study is the creation of a neighborhood condition index for High … Continued

Summary of Healthy Homes and Neighborhoods Literature

Healthy Homes & Neighborhoods A Review of Scholarly Literature The Center for Housing and Community Studies of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Conducted and Edited by Andrew Byrum and Lynn Cochran Summary provided by Rebecca Harrelson This literature review was conducted over a two-month period in early 2015, … Continued

Greensboro’s New Housing Code Policy

By: Beth McKee-Huger (Community Housing Advocate) On September 1, 2015, Greensboro City Council adopted changes to the city housing ordinance, Chapter 11 of the municipal codes, with the purpose of preserving housing by turning around unsafe housing conditions as quickly as possible.  Please share the following information with tenants, rental … Continued

CHCS Upcoming Canvassing Dates and Details

Inclusive information on upcoming CHCS canvassing dates Rebecca Harrelson No one should be living in unsafe housing conditions in Greensboro NC. Especially when we have able bodies to rid others of this burden. The UNCG Center for Housing and Community Studies is conducting a study to identify residents in low … Continued

Yes! Weekly: Layers of Data

On June 17, 2015, Jeff Sykes wrote about the CHCS in Yes! Weekly:  “Community groups like the Greensboro Housing Coalition, Cone Health System, and others, possess mountains of data showing a connection between substandard housing, environmental conditions and poor health, but it’s often difficult to translate the data for policy … Continued

CHCS Feature Article in Yes! Weekly

Layers of Data – By Jeff Sykes June 17, 2015 “The Center for Housing and Community Studies, formed under the leadership of Stephen Sills, a sociology professor with a long track record of housing research, is aggregating data from a variety of sources into geospatial maps with the potential to … Continued

The Battleground of Housing in the South

Housing has quickly emerged as a battleground in the debates and struggles around social justice and inequality. The preceding anecdotes, collected by the Immigrant Assistance Center of FaithAction International House, the researchers for the Strategic Study of the State of Human Relations in Greensboro Report, the Greensboro Housing Coalition, and the … Continued

Racial Segregation in the Piedmont

Both a casual observation of our neighborhoods and recent Census data reveals that we live in a racially segregated region. The few studies that have been done suggest that discrimination is responsible in part for this segregation. A measure of segregation is found in the dissimilarity index. This index (also … Continued