Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement.
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.
Transforming the urban food desert from the grassroots up: A model for community change
Journal of Family and Community Health
Year: 2011
Confronted by continuing health disparities in vulnerable communities, Community Health Councils (CHC), a nonprofit community-based organization in South Los Angeles, worked with the African Americans Building a Legacy of Health Coalition and research partners to develop a community change model … Continue reading
Combining creativity and control: Understanding individual motivation in large-scale collaborative creativity
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Year: 2011
Recent research has shown that management control systems (MCS) can improve performance in contexts characterized by high levels of task uncertainty. This seems to conflict with a second stream of research, which argues that MCSs risk undermining the intrinsic motivation needed … Continue reading
Ecological governance: Organizing Principles for an Emerging Era
Public Administration Review
Year: 2010
The significant reforms being implemented in governance systems around the world reflect a broader transition of society from the modern to a new emerging era. This transition is framed in terms of a shift from a mechanistic to an ecological … Continue reading
Are Students of Color More Likely to Graduate From College if They Attend More Selective Institutions?
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Year: 2010
The study takes advantage of the nontraditional selection process of the Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program to test the association between selectivity of 4-year institution attended as well as other noncognitive variables on the college completion rates of a sample … Continue reading
The Role of Private Agents in Affordable Housing Policy
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Year: 2010
This article analyzes the consequences of our increasing reliance on private agents in the formulation and implementation of affordable housing policy. We describe the policies and processes by which affordable housing decisions are made in the United States—including how many … Continue reading