Category: Homelessness & Housing

• Tracking family and intergenerational poverty using administrative data

  

  Project leads: Jennie Romich, Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and Faculty Director of the West Coast Poverty Center Data scientist: Jessica Godwin DSSG fellows: Zhaowen Guo, Ihsan Kahveci, Betelhem Aklilu Muno, Eliot Stanton Participant bios available here. Project Summary: This project will examine whether the Seattle $15 minimum wage policy reduced poverty or affected intergenerational economic…

• ADUniverse: Evaluating the Feasibility of (Affordable) Accessory Dwelling Units in Seattle

  

  Project leads: Rick Mohler, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington; and Nick Welch, Senior Planner, City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development Data science lead: Joseph Hellerstein DSSG fellows: Emily A. Finchum-Mason, Yuanhao Niu, Adrian Mikelangelo Tullock, Anagha Uppal Project Summary: Seattle has the nation’s seventh most expensive housing market and third-largest homeless population despite…

• Predictors of Permanent Housing for Homeless Families

  

  Project Leads: Neil Roche and Anjana Sundaram, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation DSSG Fellows: Joan Wang, Jason Portenoy, Fabliha Ibnat, Chris Suberlak ALVA Students: Cameron Holt, Xilalit Sanchez eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Ariel Rokem, Bryna Hazelton The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with Building Changes, have partnered with King, Pierce and Snohomish counties to make homelessness in these counties rare, brief and…