Selected Project Highlights
The Institute’s holistic research strategy brings the interdisciplinary perspectives of six focal areas to bear on the most pressing problems facing our communities. These include Education, Public Safety, Health, Housing, Social Capital, and Economic Development. Since 2005, The Institute has implemented this strategy alongside a variety of nonprofit, corporate, and government partners. Below is a brief list of some of those partners and their projects.

Texas Tenants Union
2020 to 2021
Texas Tenants Union and the Institute partnered on a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the impact of housing policies on evictions during the time of the COVID pandemic. Our research found support for the effects of interventions that occurred in March/April and September, 2020, but also found that many tenants in need fell through the cracks.