“Place” refers to where people live, learn, and/or work, and/or the characteristics thereof. It is often used interchangeably with “geography” and “location” in the poverty studies arena. Common measures of place include urbanicity (urban, exurban, suburban, rural), neighborhood, census tract, and region.
Evictions and Housing Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Lavar Edmonds, April Hartman, and Marah Curtis
- Webinar
- September 2 2020
Implementing Virtual Human Services: Lessons from Telehealth
- Fast Focus
- June 2020
Considerations for Successful Virtual Case Management in Human Service Delivery
- Joe Raymond, Lauren Supplee, and Gerrie Cotter
- Webinar
- April 2020
Focus & Focus+ 36(2), May 2020
Human services programs and the opioid crisis, Part 2
- Focus & Focus+
- May 2020
Rural communities’ challenges in accessing treatment services
- Patricia Strach, Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, and Katie Zuber
- Focus & Focus+
- May 2020
Cutting Child Poverty in Half: Directions for Policymakers
- Fast Focus
- April 2020
Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”
- Fast Focus
- January 2020
How Well-Being Measures Can Help Communities Fight Poverty and Despair
- Anita Chandra and Carol Graham
- Webinar
- December 04 2019
Understanding the effects of the U.S. prison boom on rural communities
- John M. Eason
- Focus & Focus+
- November 2019
Brian Thiede on the Rural Economy and Barriers to Work in Rural America
- Brian Thiede
- Podcast
- September 2019