Inequities in housing and schools: Housing impacts every facet of people’s lives. As housing burdens reach unprecedented levels for working-class and minoritized tenant households with children, Maria’s research examines how this informs and shapes the connections parents and young people have to their homes, communities, and schools. Relatedly, she examines how tenancy and its related housing insecurity informs schools and the teaching and learning environment in schools. Through a deeper interrogation of the structures that shape tenant housing and its nexus to schools, Maria’s research seeks to expand the ways we understand problems and solutions to addressing inequities in housing and schools.
Maria Velazquez joins Stanford Impact Labs as a postdoctoral fellow from 2024-2025.