This National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $808,398 to Brown University from July 2022 to June 2024. The funding will support research investigating the origins and impacts of racial and ethnic residential segregation in 45 major U.S. cities from 1920 to 1970. Specifically, the grantee will examine the use of restrictive covenants and mortgage redlining during this period and their effects on neighborhood...
This $104,825 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) will support a multi-year research project to investigate the mechanisms underlying the persistence of stably integrated communities in the United States. The project will utilize a mixed-methods, multi-scalar approach to map and examine neighborhoods with enduring racial integration over 20+ years. The research team will collaborate with community organizations to...
This $353,568 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a research project to study the history of population displacement across American towns from 1850 to 1940. The project will leverage machine learning and historical newspaper records to create a comprehensive database of these displacements, which will then be merged with individual census data. The expanded dataset will enable analysis of the...
This $425,726 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a study to examine the displacement of local community organizations in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification across the United States. The research will digitize and geocode historical and contemporary data on the locations of hundreds of thousands of community organizations from a comprehensive guidebook. This will...
This $562,092 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) funds research and data infrastructure development to support analysis of historical settlement and population growth patterns in the United States. The University of Colorado, Boulder will collaborate with the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota to develop gridded time series data on census tract-level variables related to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $359,208 project grant to Michigan State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the "Mapping Informal and Alternative Housing in the United States: A Big Data Approach for Examining Spatial Inequality" project from August 2021 through July 2024. The project aims to examine the proliferation of informal and alternative housing in the U.S., and how this relates to uneven spatial...
This $400,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) with an award date of September 1, 2024 and a completion date of August 31, 2026. The project, titled "Measuring Integration in Affordable Housing with Location Data," will deploy a national, large-scale study using cell phone location data to test major theories on how integration happens in affordable housing. The research aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $470,000 supports a research project to expand knowledge on the housing experiences and socioeconomic/health outcomes of an understudied urban population. The project will use interviews and surveys to investigate how members of this population experience renting, homeownership, and homelessness, and how those housing experiences impact their socioeconomic and health outcomes....
This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) will support the development of a geospatial big data infrastructure and services. Led by researchers at North Carolina Central University in partnership with three other minority-serving institutions, the award will coordinate the creation and sharing of new GIS data layers according to FAIR data principles. Standardized...
This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a collaborative research project led by New York University (NYU) to construct a new dataset from county land-use records across 20 U.S. counties over 40 years. The dataset will include information on Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured and Veteran's Administration (VA)-guaranteed mortgages, which will be made publicly available to...