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NEW FACULTY EXTENDSMSASS ResearchBuilding Assets in Low-Income CommunitiesAnna Maria Santiago, Ph.D., joined the faculty at the Mandel School of AppliedSocial Sciences in July 2010 as the inaugural Leona Bevis and MargueriteHaynam Professor in Community Development. Dr. Santiago is a specialist inurban and social welfare policy as well as research methodology. She has held facultypositions at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Universidad del SagradoCorazon, Seton Hall University, Indiana University, and Wayne State University. Sheteaches research, community and social development, and policy courses in themaster’s and doctoral degree programs at the Mandel School.For more than two decades, Dr. Santiago has been involvedwith research that examines the importance of place on theeconomic opportunities and life chances of low-income andminority families. Dr. Santiago’s current research focusesprimarily on how federal, state and local housing policies andprograms serve as vehicles for community and socialdevelopment. The four domains of her current work are (1) theimpacts of housing markets on low-income, minoritycommunities and individuals; (2) human, financial and socialcapital formation and asset building strategies in low-incomefamilies; (3) evaluating the multidimensional value ofhomeownership to low-income households; and (4) measuringneighborhood effects on the health and well-being of lowincome,minority children. In each of these areas, she isconcerned with identifying the ways in which contemporarysocial welfare and anti-poverty policies can be used to reducethe social and economic disparities experienced by low-incomeand minority families and children residing in U.S. urban areas.Her publications include numerous articles in peer-reviewedjournals, book chapters, and one co-authored book, Why NOT inMy Backyard?Dr. Santiago’s research has been supported by grants from theU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, theNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development, theFord Foundation, the Mac Arthur Foundation, the Social ScienceResearch Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.Currently, she is working on two grant-supported projects: NotJust Buying a Home, a longitudinal study funded by the Fordand Mac Arthur Foundations which evaluates the short- andlonger-term impact of homeownership counseling programson social capital formation for low-income, minority8 MSASS Action
homebuyers. For the past ten years, this studyhas followed two cohorts of low-incomehouseholds receiving housing assistance toascertain how they can be best assisted to buildfinancial, human and social capital and attain andmaintain homeownership. The study uses datafrom an innovative self-sufficiency/asset buildingand homeownership program (HOP) run by theDenver Housing Authority. Goals of the projectinclude unbiased estimates of HOP programimpacts for achieving homeownership andownership of other assets and impacts ofhomeownership on adult and child outcomes;benefit-cost analysis of HOP; and an analysis ofhome appreciation and foreclosure experiences oflow-income homeowners. The primary goals of the study areto rigorously evaluate the multi-dimensional value ofhomeownership to low-income households and the efficacy ofan innovative program to increase such homeownershipopportunities.The second study, Magnitudes and Mechanisms ofNeighborhood Effects on Children, was funded by grants fromthe National Institute of Child Health and HumanDevelopment, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, examines the influence of neighborhoodcontexts on the health and well-being of children throughoutchildhood. The purpose of this study is to: (1) quantifyprecisely how various conditions in the surroundingneighborhood independently affect a variety of outcomes forlow-income children who have resided in public housing for asubstantial period of time during childhood; and (2) probecausal paths and mechanisms relative to how neighborhoodconditions or environments might cause these outcomes. Theresearch poses several questions. For children who spend aconsiderable period during ages 0-18 living in DHA publichousing, are there statistically and economically significantdifferences in their outcomes in five domains (health,education, employment, behavioral and demographic) thatcan be attributed to differences in their neighborhoods(controlling for family and individual characteristics)? If thereare neighborhood-based differences in child outcomes, whatappear to be the salient mechanisms and causal pathsoperative in the neighborhood environment? Do thesemechanisms and paths vary by outcome domain,neighborhood spatial scale, and child developmental stage,ethnicity or gender?In both studies, the goal of the analyses is to aid in thedevelopment of more effective antipoverty policies andprograms to improve the opportunities and life chancesavailable to low-income and minority families and theirchildren.FALL 2010 9
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