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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.
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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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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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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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
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Best Practices in Housing, Transportation, and Infrastructure to Inform an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery

In this memo, we focus on three areas of particular importance to a sustainable, equitable recovery: transportation, housing, and other types of infrastructure.
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Best Practices in Local Revenue Recovery to Inform an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented revenue volatility in the District of Columbia (DC) and most other state and local governments.
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Best Practices in Education to Inform an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery

Although important improvements have been made in public education in the District of Columbia during the past decade, the pandemic disrupted instruction and introduced new challenges for many students.
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Best Practices in Small Business Recovery to Inform an Equitable COVID-19 Recovery

As a result, much of the best practices cited in this memo focus on developing a better understanding of DC’s small business ecosystem to more clearly define gaps and needs.
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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.