Professor Emily Rosenbaum is in the second of three years of funding from the MacArthur Foundation’s program, “How Housing Matters.” With co-principal investigator Earle Chambers of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she is fielding a survey in the south and west Bronx aimed at understanding how receiving rental housing subsidies may influence the cardiovascular health of low-income Latinos. The project has employed many Fordham College at Rose Hill undergraduates as interns, providing them with the opportunity to learn about social science research firsthand, and – often with funding from the FCRH Dean’s office – to conduct their own research on the connection between housing/neighborhoods and health.
Professor Rosenbaum is also a member of the Russell Sage Foundation’s US2010 project, the Foundation’s decennial research program for Census 2010. Her contribution to the project consists of three inter-related projects: an analysis of trends and differentials in home ownership during the 2000s, with a particular emphasis on the differential effects of the recession and housing market crisis; an analysis of trends and differentials in housing and neighborhood quality since 2000; and an analysis of the housing careers of birth cohorts from 1970 to 2010.
