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Research Report

Educational Costs of Gun Violence

Research indicates that gun violence and violent crime can negatively affect educational outcomes including test scores, graduation rates, and academic engagement.
Brief

Costs of Gun Violence in Washington, DC

Research indicates that gun violence and violent crime can negatively affect educational outcomes including test scores, graduation rates, and academic engagement.
Research Report

Capital Quality Offers Individualized Coaching to Support Quality Improvement: Insights from Child Care Providers in the District of Columbia

Child care quality matters for young children’s learning and development and for parents engaged in work and school activities. Families depend on finding safe, stable, and stimulating care that can meet their needs.
Research Report

Child Care Providers’ Reflections on Quality Improvement

As of 2017, 49 states and the District of Columbia were devoting public resources to implement quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) designed to support early care and education (ECE) quality and families’ selection of ECE programs.
Fact Sheet

Capital Quality Offers Opportunities for Professional Development and Peer Learning: Insights from Child Care Providers in the District of Columbia

Child care quality matters for young children’s learning and development and for parents engaged in work and school activities. Families depend on finding safe, stable, and stimulating care that can meet their needs.
Brief

Revisiting Automated Valuation Model Disparities in Majority-Black Neighborhoods

Automated valuation models (AVMs) represent the promise of greater efficiency and lower costs for the mortgage industry.
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Highlights

Walkability Entails the Full Walking Experience, Not Just Access to Resources

Many measures of walkability boil it down to access to key destinations, but new Urban research expands the definition to include multiple measures of the walking experience.
Brief

Early Educators’ Work Experiences and Job Satisfaction

This brief describes DC early educators’ pay, employee benefits, and work experiences based on a 2021 survey of teaching staff (N = 417) in licensed child development centers and homes that participate in DC’s quality rating and improveme
Brief

The Pandemic’s Effects on Early Educators’ Employment and Well-Being

This brief describes how the COVID-19 pandemic affected DC early educators based on a 2021 survey of teaching staff (N = 417) in licensed child development centers and homes that participate in DC’s quality rating and improvement system,
Brief

Early Educators’ Virtual Training Experiences and Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This brief describes DC early educators’ participation in professional development planning and virtual training during the first year of the pandemic, as well as their preferred training topics and formats.
Brief

Assessing the Impact of Affordable Housing on Nearby Property Values in Alexandria, Virginia

Stable, affordable housing provides benefits to both people with low incomes and local economies overall.
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Highlights

What’s the Key to an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery in DC?

As DC recovers from the pandemic, intentional, cross-sector effort is needed to correct inequities of the past and present.
Fact Sheet

Economic Costs of Gun Violence in Washington, DC

Gun violence and violent crime impose substantial costs on communities, including indirect costs that may be seen in indicators of business activity, such as business openings and closures, employment, and sales revenue, and in indicators of housi
Brief

Best Practices in Safety Net Programs to Inform an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery

As the US slowly recovers from a long COVID-19 pandemic, US cities and states have an unprecedented opportunity to pursue an inclusive recovery.
Brief

Best Practices in Employment to Inform an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession have had dramatic effects on the workforce, labor market, and employers.