Center for Urban Research and Learning

Loyola University Chicago

Here you will find all of CURL's research projects and publications.

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Evaluation of Medicaid Housing Demonstration Project

This project delivered a process and outcome evaluation of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) Medicaid Supportive Housing Pilot Project in collaboration with AFC and Health Disability Advocates (HDA). CURL and HDA partnered in this research, with CURL focusing on the process evaluation and analysis of outcome data, and HDA focusing on the policy context and recommendations.

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Evaluation of the 100,000 Homes Campaign in Chicago

In May 2011, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) partnered with the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago to conduct a process evaluation of the Chicago 100,000 Homes Campaign, with a focus on outreach and housing coordination. The 100,000 Homes Campaign was a national effort led by Community Solutions to identify and permanently house 100,000 of the country’s most vulnerable homeless by July 2013.

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Housing First Model Fidelity and Implications for Substance Abuse Treatment

In partnership with Heartland Alliance, CURL received a two-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to: (1) Define the essential components of the Housing First model; (2) Develop a fidelity index for Housing First programming; (3) Test the finalized fidelity index for reliability and validity; and (4) Assess the degree to which fidelity predicts improved substance abuse treatment access for clients.
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Evaluation of Rebuilding Chicago Together-Metro Chicago's National Rebuilding Day Program

Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) conducted an outcomes and process evaluation of National Rebuilding Day (NRD), a one-day program organized by Rebuilding Together – Metro Chicago (RTMC), to examine the sustainable impact of programming on Chicago communities and participant homeowners.
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One and a Half Decades of Apartment Loss and Condominium Growth: Changes in Chicago's Residential Building Stock

The analysis that follows uses parcel level data collected for the purpose of assessing property taxes by the Cook County Tax Assessor in 1989-1990, 1995-1997, 2002 and 2004. Our narrow purpose in this short report is to use these data to provide quantitative measures of the change in rental, single-family owner-occupied and residential condominium parcels by neighborhood in Chicago.
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Effects of Gentrification on the Late Stages of Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

CURL worked with UIC to conduct focus groups with community members in gentrifying and non-gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods to determine if gentrification disrupted the availability of local medical care, affected residents' social networks, contributed to stress felt by these residents, or placed additional financial demands on them that resulted in cutbacks in their usage of medical facilities.
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Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities History

The Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities was a nationally recognized fair housing organization founded at the end of Martin Luther King's Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966. For 40 years the Leadership Council fought against racial segregation in Chicago and around the country through litigation, direct housing assistance services and educational programs for real estate professionals. In 2006, the Council was disbanded for financial reasons. CURL worked to collect an archive of information, interviews and documents about the history of the Council.

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