The USC Price Center for Social Innovation and LeadersUp partnered to examine how employers support workers facing housing precarity.

Housing Instability
Housing stability is one of the most critical policy issues of our time, and traditional policy levers have failed to catalyze the change needed to provide safe, affordable housing for all populations. The Price Center conducts a wide range of research to improve housing stability through a community-driven process of piloting and testing new practices, bringing them to scale, and ultimately diffusing those practices into systems change.
Brief: The Pervasive Impacts of Rent Burden in City Heights
USC Price Center for Social Innovation
Year: 2019
Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement. City Heights, like many other neighborhoods in Southern California, faces a critical moment to address this important issue. To understand how residents are coping … Continue reading
Inequality in Children’s Contexts: Income Segregation of Households with and without Children
American Sociological Review
Year: 2016
Past research shows that income segregation between neighborhoods increased over the past several decades. In this article, I reexamine income segregation from 1990 to 2010 in the 100 largest metropolitan areas, and I find that income segregation increased only among … Continue reading
Place Based Initiatives in the Context of Public Policy and the Market: Moving to Higher Ground
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy, Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
Year: 2015
This monograph represents the culmination of a year long inquiry into the state of place-based initiatives. It draws upon the contributions of a cross-section of the foremost thought leaders in this field, many of whom have spent their entire careers … Continue reading