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Hopkins initiative aims to solve entrenched problems in Baltimore and other cities
A sociologist studying whether involving immigrants in neighborhood groups can ease crime, an education professor using housing data to predict school enrollment and an astronomer applying his expertise in big data to the city’s vacant problems are all part of a new program at the Johns Hopkins University designed to help Baltimore confront its intractable…
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How Can Baltimore City Prevent Housing Abandonment?
The best housing vacancy information currently available—from the American Community Survey—produces census tract–level estimates only every five years. As a result, city planners are almost always working with obsolete information when looking for vacant houses. Baltimore Housing acting Commissioner Michael Braverman, A&S ’81, turned for help to Johns Hopkins researchers Tamás Budavári, an applied math professor, and…
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2017 Applied Research Seed Grant Awardees Announced
Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Centuries Cities Initiative is making a significant investment in urban policy improvements, doling out $204,000 for six new research projects. Of the grant-winning projects announced Monday, five are based in Baltimore, including one that examines the health impacts of the city’s vacant property turnover program and another that aims to boost…
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Hearing Their Voices
On April 20, 2017, the 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC) at Johns Hopkins University hosted a community forum about coming of age in Baltimore. The event, which was a continuation of the Redlining Baltimore series, brought together community organizers, scholars, students, policymakers, advocates, and civic leaders to better understand the myriad challenges youth face growing…
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Investing in Baltimore
Bell-McKoy and other CEOs and leaders took part in a discussion titled “Investing in Baltimore” at Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday evening. The event was presented by JHU’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
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Visiting Scholars Series
21CC’s Visiting Scholars Series brings urban policy researchers to Johns Hopkins University for open-campus discussions on new research and policy solutions within 21CC’s areas of focus, including economic inclusion and neighborhood transformation.
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Living on $2 a Day: Poverty and Food Equity in America
In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, the 21st Century Cities Initiative’s faculty director Kathy Edin ($2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America) and Washington, DC area social entrepreneur Tom McDougall of 4P Foods have a powerful and timely discussion with Share Our Strength founders Billy and Debbie Shore about poverty in America.
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Preemption Prevents Innovation: We must not let states squash local policy experimentation
As the battle lines are forming between so-called sanctuary cities and the Trump administration, local jurisdictions across the country ought to be bracing for a much larger federalism fight: the stifling of social and economic progress by their own state governments.
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Using Astronomy To Fight Urban Blight
Almost 17,000 houses sit boarded-up and vacant throughout Baltimore. These are the ones deemed officially unlivable by the city, some with rooftops or walls missing. But those structures represent just a fraction of a larger problem. Estimates from the Census and other community surveys suggest anywhere between 30,000 and 54,000 other homes are currently unoccupied.…
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The University as Pillar of the Community
“Hopkins has also begun an attempt to foster collaborations between university researchers and city governments nationwide, known as the 21st Century Cities Initiative. Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg professor in Hopkins’ department of sociology and a specialist in the study of urban poverty, is its director. A recent symposium hosted by the initiative was attended by officials…
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JHU’s 21st Century Cities Initiative Offers New Round of Seed Grants for Urban Policy Projects
The issue of widespread vacant properties in Baltimore is well-documented, but for policymakers, a bird’s eye view has been lacking. The city’s records on these buildings—more than 16,000 of them—are scattered and hard to interpret. A Johns Hopkins-launched project aims to tackle that challenge. A research team is modeling a spatial map of Baltimore’s housing…
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21st Century Cities Initiative Now Accepting Grant Applications
Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative is accepting applications for its Spring 2017 Applied Research Seed Grant Program. The grants, expected to average $35,000, will support the development of new, cross-disciplinary research that meaningfully engages policymakers and/or practitioners in cities.
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Redlining Baltimore
Nearly a year after the April 2015 uprising, the 21st Century Cities Initiative launched the ‘Redlining Baltimore’ series, a forum to better understand geographies of exclusion in Baltimore City. The four-part series, which was hosted by actress and activist Sonja Sohn, brought residents, academics, artists, activists and civil leaders together to examine the historical and…
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JHU Study Reviews Baltimore Crime Data Since Riots
A Johns Hopkins University study that reviewed recent reported crime data from Baltimore City police concludes Commissioner Kevin Davis has had a stabilizing effect on city crime, not a revolutionary one.
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis An Evening With Robert D. Putnam
This event is open to the public. Seating is limited so advance registration is required by November 11. Special thank you to: The Bloomberg School of Public Health This event is made possible by generous support from: PNC Bank, Legg Mason, M&T Bank, and Child Care Foundation, Inc.
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