This is a summary of a story by Elizabeth Thompson on the Cook Center on Social Equity website.
DUPRI scholars are leading two of three community-engaged research teams awarded seed grants to investigate housing and economic well-being in Durham. The grants, jointly awarded by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and the Duke Center for Community-Engaged Scholarship, support partnerships between Duke researchers and local organizations to develop evidence-based solutions to pressing housing challenges.
Tonia Poteat, professor in the School of Nursing and Kathryn Whetten, professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, will partner with Vanity Deterville of the LGBTQ Center of Durham to examine housing insecurity among LGBTQ community members experiencing homelessness and identify equitable strategies for emergency and long-term housing support.
Christina Gibson-Davis, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, will work with Steven Day at North Carolina Central University, Henry McKoy, president and CEO of Carolina Community Impact, and the City of Durham's Office of Community Partnerships & Engagement to develop new data on racial disparities in wealth, housing assets, debt, and economic well-being, providing evidence to inform local policy.
The grant initiative was launched through a partnership between the Cook Center, directed by DUPRI Scholar Tyson Brown, and the Duke Center for Community-Engaged Scholarship to strengthen community-engaged research addressing local priorities.
To learn more about the seed grants to study housing concerns, visit the Cook Center on Social Equity.
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