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Access to Homeownership in Greater New Haven: 2018 DataHaven and Greater New Haven NAACP Report

Report on access to homeownership in Greater New Haven, authored by Camille Seaberry (DataHaven) and commissioned by the Greater New Haven NAACP. Published May 2018.

December 22, 2020
Report: Lack of transportation in Greater New Haven keeps people out of workforce

[Excerpt] According to the report, New Haven has been adding high-paying jobs since 2000 that go primarily to college graduates, and only 4 percent of 47,000 jobs paying more than $20 per hour are held by residents of the city’s low-income neighborhoods. Most of the living-wage jobs in New Haven — 81 percent — are held by out-of-towners. SCRCOG Executive Director Carl Amento called the problem “this mismatch between where the jobs are and where the people are.”

January 16, 2015
How Transportation Problems Keep People Out of the Workforce in Greater New Haven

Commissioned by the South Central Regional Council of Governments, the region’s branch of the NAACP and the Workforce Alliance, DataHaven analyzed how transportation — or lack thereof — keeps people out of the workforce in Greater New Haven. Most entry and mid-level jobs are located outside of downtown New Haven, while the majority of low-income adults live in the city. This spatial mismatch between supply and demand for regional jobs makes access to transportation a crucial issue to regional economic opportunities.

December 31, 2014
Urban Apartheid: 2013 Greater New Haven NAACP Report

The NAACP Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP created the 2013 Urban Apartheid report, involving DataHaven's Executive Director, Mark Abraham, to work closely with NAACP staff and board members on its development and to contribute the research material used throughout. DataHaven also received a separate contract from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to support its work on the development and graphic design of this 25-page report.

March 27, 2013